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hello from Dominica to the world and

locked down where he's sitting here in

curfew and wanted to let you know how it

is for us here and how it feels what the

regulations are and what we experience

like most Caribbean countries also

Dominica shut down the borders close the

country and we're all sitting at home

and the government here reacted very

fast and very well even that we don't

have that much cases yet they protect

the country pretty good make good

measures and yeah we're sitting here on

the boat and behind us you see the empty

beach and a Sunday that's completely

unusual usually in Sunday's you have

music people on the beach people

swimming dancing playing football

yelling kids boats fishing boats driving

around but as you see you see nothing

there was anyway very impressive I I

could not believe that local people here

that they are so anticipated anticipate

in in the whole restrictions and

everything I thought it might be a very

very hard thing to to really get

everybody from the streets and let them

at home but I'm very very surprised and

you can really see the dominican people

they are used to get out of catastrophic

situations they know how to deal with

with things with disasters when things

not go as usual and yeah at the moment

it's it's a very nice Sunday but it

feels kind of a little bit spooky so

yeah anyways he also felt it the other

days before the total lockdown before

the curfew and we're still able to go in

town ourselves for some groceries people

are saying it feels like before the

hurricane before Maria everybody is kind

of preparing and stuff stocking up I

mean nobody did really like the extended

shoppings like we heared from the States

or Europe but the people look for each

other but still they they had the

feeling something's going on you realize

the difference

sugar was interesting here was the first

thing running out well while others were

low on toilet paper I don't know still

for what reason

I don't get that as it's not a digestive

virus or anything here the country of

run out of sugar first no there is no

such thing like panic or anything they

remain very very calm and kind of like

really ready for it and also the way the

government talks to the people it's in a

very very easy understandable manner and

I think our countries they really can

take a leave of their book it's very

educational I had the feeling really

like sensitive not just on the problem

but also like direct solutions how

parents can handle the the schooling

situation with the kids really examples

that you can obviously follow how to do

the hand washing I mean even here when

the whole thing was still weeks and

weeks before lockdown we already had the

Health Department here

educating people in the hand-washing and

it was so simple and and fun I mean they

were did they had 20 seconds hand

washing with twice singing happy

birthday because that's the length of 20

seconds so we're standing there like

doing all the the hand washing procedure

and the whole group was singing happy

birthday to have the length of time so

that's a lot of like fun but also

practical examples how they get in touch

with the people and how they manage the

whole thing really positive I also had

the feeling the schools reacted very

well and fast also what I notice is that

they very very quick acted against that

social distancing because in a character

of the the most important thing is that

people work together that people stick

together in this moment and now to tell

these people to stay away from one

another that doesn't really work and we

still are supposed to take care for each

other and they very quickly started to

call it physical distancing which I

appreciate it a lot it's not a social

distancing it's a

of this something only and that's what I

said don't social distance from another

in this times its expect especially

important to stay socially together not

visiting the elderly in the elderly home

to not bring them in danger but stay in

contact with them they have a phone they

have possibilities with employees there

to make a video call you can bring stuff

that gets forwarded to them but do not

socially distance from each other just

physical and that's a great experience

and an example they made here that's

true they also keep going with the

schools which was very impressive so

very quick they rigged up in certain

schools some home schooling via internet

where they have contact with a teacher

by using the laptop or phones or

whatever device they have and there is

still some some kids in need that can

wear parents right now I cannot go for

work and earn the money so we thought

there's a very easy way to to maybe

support them and there is actually a

organization down in south of the island

that takes care for the SS for a Yee I

have to put that in the description and

basically it goes on that they collect

numbers of the students together need a

top-up and there's this app called Bing

where you can top up every prepaid card

worldwide we use that since many years

now and it works always great you can

top up each prepaid card prepend number

just with your credit card and so

everybody who is interested to help in

america can just write us a quick

message and we will provide phone

numbers of students and because about

seven US dollar per week and per family

to get them online and let them take

part on the online school the person

takes a certain amount of data to do all

the schooling and a lot of families are

just not able to

provide that yet especially when they're

not working and that's a great support

for the local community well they don't

know us they may have seen the two of us

but not the other cruisers that are just

here for a couple weeks now so for them

every white person is like a possible

threat from one of the other islands

that have way more cases so that

possible threat and that's why the

health department asked to stay out of

town for the cursors to keep the fear of

the local population down and so the

same has happened in other places as

well big gatherings were prohibited no

president yeah and so the Saturday fruit

market in town was canceled what was a

bummer for us because that's the main

source of our groceries would we get

fresh produce and so like what the hell

do we do where do we get those stuff we

don't want to live on on pasta I'm Brad

what's wale up in the supermarket as we

are here on the island already for a

while we got in contact with one of our

farmer friends named gumbo and made

pre-orders with boats and he's supplying

us twice a week at the pace building on

each with his fresh produce fruits and

vegetables

let's go to the building

this is mangu market thank you thank you

thank you very much Joanna and angie

from bamboo mara for assisted in

bringing this here for the for the

cruises every patroness was a very long

way every dollar goes towards a family

the you know the farmers the they are

not necessarily the people here with the

most money so every dollar that that is

spent here today who stores helping kids

go to school moves towards helping the

farmer put an extension on his building

Gustavo's if farmer help in helping in

the society so thank you very much we

are also happy that we have all of these

fresh produce yet that we can share with

you in the world

Dominika to the world everything here is

natural everything here is organic fresh

and yes we're prone so don't many go to

the world the best mr. bee after the

storm here in the storm yeah

land of longevity one love I guess

weaker service reap appreciate the

farmers market curfew

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yes whenever you sell in the Caribbean

seas and you are in distress so you

don't know what to come we welcome you

here at peace we are here ready to serve

you we are full of provisioning we have

security we have safe Anchorage and we

are lovely people who's ready to welcome

already ok Dominica to the world bolo

taxi one more service nice piece big

piece of pumpkin from friends here I was

already canning perfect to make some

sweet and sour pumpkin can't clean that

cut it in pieces papaya mango

passionfruit Jim this way there is some

peppers and onion usually there's the

original recipe requires zucchini but

there's no Sookie nee available I just

made

can't covers and onion and that these

two is mango papaya hot sauce

as I love the fruity spicy with a fish

I like making fruit flavored hot sauce I

got the pumpkin in the pressure put

sweet-and-sour dressing that has to cook

for a while and that's getting hot down

here

so let's get upstairs go to the dentist

we got one tooth pulled out but now with

corona curfew just emergencies are

allowed to sure and as pulling out

fathoms is not an emergency I'm gonna do

that

at least we have the right tools for it

I think I got a cut a few times in there

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number three this was yep

thank you and was it also the last visit

in would loop was not just for groceries

and dentists we also picked up my

daughter visitor for two weeks and I'm

so happy she made it to visit us before

that whole corona virus pandemic locked

down the whole world so we had a chance

to see each other and spend some really

nice time together

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visiting us all anthony's from the

states

really happy and proud to have them with

us for a day and we got to do another

tour tomorrow on dominica this is the

beach today where did the indian river

church together I hope you guys enjoy

the island Jim very much the people here

are very friendly and we've enjoyed our

visit it's a very beautiful I though I

would recommend it to anyone

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they haven't had so much that it made me

stumble I just wasn't serious

Cheers homemade coconut punch only time

I've ever had it so we're back in the

Sun and to follow the Health Ministry

Department's rules there's also one

thing when we do our markets we should

wear masks and that was next to

interject really good and at least they

keep you from always touching your face

so it kind of makes sense and I believe

that we probably have to wear some sort

of masks for the next couple of months

but we keep going fishing course

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boys are models too

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as all borders are closed the boats that

are here are gonna stay and that's a

really nice community building up from

all over the world

for example our neighbor from

Switzerland that dude even has all porn

on board

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curfew business as usual

usually that means thing is broken

constant never changing story another

colleague curve

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you