Meeting new people

            As a young kid in middle school, my mother frequently took me on vacations to Dominican Republic to understand my culture background. Growing up in the Bronx and frequently going to Dominican Republic I learned both English and Spanish. But as I graduated the 8^th grade, my mother sent me to DR for a year to study, in which I meet a young guy named Jack Lefroun.

            

            Jack Lefroun was an Haitian fellow who I didn’t understand quite well do to that fact that he spoke Creole (A French based language) and very little Spanish in addition he could speak English which astounded me a bit, but it was limited. When I spoke with lefroun it was never a normal conversation, we spoke two languages at the same and sometimes three with creole but it’s a very interesting to see.

           

            As a young kid and very innocent minded kid in DR, people let me believe that Haitian are bad people, which in the case of Lefroun wasn’t true. He became like family to me he showed me his culture and his language while I sowed him mines. Lefroun showed me his very rich tradition of music and dances, some of the dances were Congo and Danse Kango. In addition he showed me how to heal many stuff with leaf, he was an herbal specialist know as a leaf doctor in his country. I also learn from him the value of money and bad is poverty in his country, he showed me how hard was for him to earn money to support himself.

           

            I learned so much form his culture diversity, he was a great guy hard worker and a very great guy to talk to. After my experience with him, I wanted to keep meeting new people and getting to know different languages and different cultures after meeting Jack Lefroun.

                                                                work cited:

  T. S CHWARTZ timothy. "Countries and their cultures, Haiti".http://www.everyculture.com/Ge-It/Haiti.html : date posted: N.D Seen Feb 09,2014 publisher: Advameg, Inc.