this morning when i was taking allen to school, i asked him, “si ou gen danse jodi a, kisa w’ap fe?” “show my clothes to my teacher,” he replied, which was the answer i was looking for.
beelove's Life List
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1. learn kreyol
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2. practice patience
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3. be truly loved by someone I truly love
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4. have a longterm/stable/fulfilling romantic relationship
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5. receive oya
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6. learn hindi
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7. travel around scotland
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8. travel around india
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9. go to trinidad
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10. travel around ethiopia
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11. go to mozambique
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12. go back to amsterdam and visit more of holland, as well
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13. visit all 50 states
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14. have at least $100,000 in the bank
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15. visit Niue
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16. incorporate myself
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How I did it: it was a combo of a few things that helped me attain this goal: i stopped working gigs that required me to be highly social with co-workers, i stopped using taking myself out to extremely expensive meals as a way to kill downtime when i was alone, and (most importantly) i started buying groceries online, which made it much easier to see how much money i was spending on keeping the fridge stocked. honestly, if i was going to be spend… Read how I did it…
How I did it: although i'd been to haiti before, i wanted to volunteer during the second phase of earthquake recovery (as opposed to just go and hang out with friends).on recommendation of a co-worker, i stayed with grassroots united (gru), located in port au prince. i worked on an orphanage project with another small ngo called european disaster volunteers (edv), who at the time were located on the gru compound. it cost $15 a day, which go… Read how I did it…
How I did it: a friend at work invited me to go with her and her parents. her father is from neiva. we spent 10 days in neiva for the san pedro festival and 6 days in bogota, sightseeing. Read how I did it…
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we’ve been married for almost 9 months now!
i wonder what it’s gonna feel like when i say we’ve been married for almost 9 years now!
now that aldy and allen are here aldy and i have been watching haitian movies. we watched a movie called “oasis” last night and i understood big chunks of dialogue. it helped that the movie was set in miami and the characters spoke about a quarter of the lines in english, but i still got much more of the kreyol than i would have even a few weeks ago!


