They say that the national religion of the Republica Dominicana is baseball, and the national sport is gossip. Well, the other national sport is dominos. I didn´t think dominos was a difficult game until two days ago. The people here play so fast, and are able to keep track of all the dominos as they´re played. When they count the score, even if there are 15 (or more) dominos left, they can add up the points in a matter of seconds. And they´re not blow trying to trick the gringos into giving them more points than they deserve ;) If you hesitate in playing, they will skip your turn, and even so, we slow down the game a lot. It´s really amazing... but of course every evening is spent with at least a couple hours of dominos before dinner, and they´ve probably been playing since they were kids..
I really like this community.. it´s super mixed use and dense, although not too overcrowded, and really close-knit, but also very wlcoming and hospitable. Oh, and I already resond to ¨gringa¨ just as well as ¨Teresa.¨
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We were in an airport, somewhere in Europe. It might have been Frankfurt and there was a group of Hispanics playing Dominoes in a table in the corner of a restaurant. I heard someone say they must be Cuban because dominoes was really big there, but I gues that's not the only island where it is big. Maybe your math skills will imrove along with your Spanish.
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