La ciudad

New York is the city that never sleeps but Santo Domingo is the city that never shuts up. It´s incredibly loud, so loud that it's hard to sleep in. My house sits right on Avenida Independencia, one of the main avenues of the city so from 8 to about 9 the whole world is honking their horns outside my window. At night there's merengue and bachata coming from every where at once, and when the neighbors are screaming at the kids or the dog, I swear it's right in my room. I'm going to invest in a pair of earplugs.