Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Funny sayings

Peter and Gaelle constatnly parrot what they hear. Sometimes they come up with the appropriate slang type saying and take us all by surprise. Tonight Gaelle asked where Kaylin was. She was told that Kaylin was at church. Gaelle LOVES to go to church and so she asked if she was going to eglise. No... just Kaylin. So Gaelle pipes up with,

What's up with that?

Then another day she was being given some choices for lunch. She often says, "Poco. Poco," and she holds up her hand which means "Wait. Wait." So Robin asked her what she wanted and she held up her hand and said,

Let me think about that.

To which Peter promptly said, "Her English is getting really good."

Tonight we had a friend drop by who is heading to Haiti tomorrow. This was his first time meeting the kids and he decided to practice his Creole on Gaelle. So he asked her, "Koman ou ye?" to which she said with disgust, "Meh!!!" and then she walked away.

Translation: How are you?
Translation: apparently one of those phrases that we utter when we're disgusted or frustrated

Either Dean's Creole was really bad or she just didn't feel like speaking Creole.

1 comment:

Emily said...

what's up with that?

haha, laughed at that one for a while!

I can't wait to meet this cool chick