{"id":2806,"date":"2013-05-31T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interdominternships.org\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2015-11-16T21:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T21:45:11","slug":"time-to-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interdominternships.org\/es\/time-to-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Go Home"},"content":{"rendered":"


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InteRDom Correspondent, Giselle, has completed the first year of her Bachelor\u2019s degree in Political Science at Sciences Po, Reims, France. She is participating in the 2013 10-week Dominican International Student Program.<\/i><\/span><\/span>You can read more about Giselle and her participation in the Correspondent Program here<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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Counting my days back to the island on an inexistent calendar has been excruciating. I\u2019ve been torturing myself with this extreme consciousness of the day I set foot again on the soil that saw my birth, my growth and then later, my departure. Everyone says to oneself: \u201cI won\u2019t think about it\u201d and that is the only thing you end up wondering about. The sun that\u2019s so close you can almost touch it, the waves that hit the shore with a harmonic sound, the smile of the people everywhere as they go on with their lives, and the beat of the music that taught me how to move my hip from right to left are only a few of the millions things I\u2019m longing for. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I\u2019m currently pale, a couple of pounds skinnier, bags under my eyes; I walk in a fast pace even though I\u2019m worn out. Sleepless nights of studying, days that went and came in which I never saw the light, the cold that crept into my bones and made me shiver and my teeth chatter, house chores that were inarguably tiring; it is not only the locus that has changed but unimaginable accounts of my life, my personality, my tastes.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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This is not to say that the Dominican Republic is better than France, an assertion to which I can find innumerable arguments against. I\u2019ve grown an adult, I\u2019ve seen panoramas and experienced diverse cultures, I\u2019ve tasted the nouvelle cuisine, I\u2019ve learnt to speak different languages, isn\u2019t that what I wanted as a young adult upon departure back home? I\u2019m afraid to say the answer is yes; yes my ambitions and desires were all of the above and they have not been without completion. But there is that last piece of the puzzle that doesn\u2019t fit, you put it backwards, inwards, spin it 180 degrees and it still doesn\u2019t work. It\u2019s like I\u2019ve been constructed in a way in which I can only function to my maximum capacity while in my natural habitat, but needless to say how reluctant I\u2019m of stopping to be a wanderer. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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As a wanderer I\u2019ve learnt to see the beauty in every detail, to appreciate the air I breathe and the places I visit even though they\u2019re not home. Believe it or not, I can find similarities all around me; objects, people and places that seem much like the ones I\u2019d made myself used to.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
The woman at la boulangerie just in front wears the same apron as the woman in the colmado just around the corner.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
 <\/span><\/span>The cr\u00eapes I eat once I\u2019m done with schoolwork taste more and more like the sancocho my mom treated me with after a hard day.<\/span><\/span> <\/div>\n
 <\/span><\/span>The French strikers which stop transit and fight for better working conditions are a familiar picture of all the dominicanos complaining about the government on TV.<\/span><\/span> <\/div>\n
 <\/span><\/span>When I walk across the Champs Elys\u00e9es, the rocks underneath me resemble those that pave La Zona Colonial.<\/span><\/span> <\/div>\n
 <\/span><\/span>Even la Tour Eiffel under turquoise skies looks at me and invites me for a pilgrimage towards la Iglesia de la Altagracia.<\/span><\/span> <\/div>\n
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I had not realized how much time I had spent writing this. Now that I look at the clock hanging off the wall, it is yelling: TIME TO GO HOME. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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By: Giselle De\u00f1\u00f3 InteRDom Correspondent, Giselle, has completed the first year of her Bachelor\u2019s degree in Political Science at Sciences Po, Reims, France. She is participating in the 2013 10-week Dominican International Student Program.You can read more about Giselle and her participation in the Correspondent Program here. Counting my days back to the island on… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,112,101,116,94,176,117,102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interdominternships.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interdominternships.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interdominternships.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interdominternships.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interdominternships.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.interdominternships.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/www.interdominternships.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interdominternships.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interdominternships.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interdominternships.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}