Blan Yo

The language is challenging here mostly because of my age, I believe. You can teach an old dog new tricks, but wow this grey haired lady's mind is having a hard time wrapping it all together. There are so many exceptions and no clear rules. What makes me tick is logic and Kreyole doesn't at all work with logic. In the English language you basically add an "s" to make plural, right? Well, guess what you add in the Kreyole language? "Yo!" Yep! Yo! So, Thursday evening as Chris and I were walking along the road in Fort Jacque headed back to Fermathe a little girl said while pointing to us, to her brother, "blan yo"! And I knew what that meant! It wasn't English slang "yo - hey blan!" It was "there's blan" like in the plural! It's SO funny sometimes what we have heard for 6 months finally becomes crystal clear and takes on a whole nother meaning. I truly had heard that before but thought they were mixing English and Kreyole. Makes me want to listen harder at those moments I'm first thinking they are making fun of me/us and realize that they probably aren't. May we all listen for the real meaning without dismissing something we don't fully understand as not important.

"Be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger" as James reminds us.