this is just thing that happens in your life if you're Haitian or if you're mixed.
I speak fluent creole but I kinda bad at spelling sertin words.
some of the pictures I'm using are from pinterest and Google.
Enjoy 😘
•You might be late for a wedding or may not even even show up at all,... but damn it, you are early for the reception! And of course you bring home a plate wrapped in aluminum foil and some 'gateau'.
•All soda is called "cola" and all chewing gum is called "Chicklets".
•You refuse to throw out old grease. So that everything you fry has that taste of fried fish, chicken, bannan pese, or griot.
•Your parents still put you "a genou" even though you are 30.
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•You use bed sheets as window curtains.
•You've eaten rice within the past 3 days.
•You eat too much chicken, diri kole, or diri a djon djon.
•Your living room couches are covered with plastic.
•You buy your cereal at Farmer's Market.
•You buy your fruit at Basket Market.
•You try to bargain your way out of everything and anywhere even in department stores.
•To get out of trouble with a fellow Haitian, you use the phrase: "bon sa-ou genyen la?, se Ayisyen nou ye mon(ma)che."
•Once the temperature gets below a certain level, you lose all concepts of coordination when it comes to things like snow boots, winter coats, scarves, and hats often doing things like wearing two different color hats at the same time.
•You have a bunch of expensive perfumes on your dresser but prefer to use the cheaper ones because you don't want to waste your good stuff.
•Your house is so packed with meubles and *biblos* that you can't even take two steps.
•There are entire rooms in your house that no one is allowed to go in because it reserved for company ONLY.
