This page is dedicated to my favorite things. The things that make me truly happy and help me grow as an individual. The things that brighten my eyes and make me smile. As you will see, many of them are not even things. I will keep updating as often as I can.  I will also try to post some information about them and the reasons I love these things so. I will post them in different categories below in no particular order.

Favorite memories:

1. Making shadow puppets in candlelight or flashlights in Haiti
2. The smell of the walls after it rains in Haiti
3. Learning English
4. My first airplane ride
5. My first time in New York
6. My first time in the United States
7. Going to the bookstore by my elementary school in Haiti for hours to read Asterix books and losing track of time just to get a beating because my mother thought I was doing other “things”(well the beating is not a favorite)
8. Watching both the sunrise and sunset on the same day on different sides of Puerto Rico
9. Rick rolling the cafeteria at my alma mater during midnight breakfast
10. Showering in the rain on the mountain tops while screaming at the top of my lungs in the Dominican Republic
11. Kiss at the arboretun
12. Tim tim bwa sech in the dark

Favorite things to do:

1. Howwwwwwwwling at the moon
2. Tight hugs
3. Writing a good run-on sentence because it’s so much fun to use many words all at once to describe something exciting
4. Long walks
5. Taking photographs
6. Looking ridiculous if it makes me feel good at the moment
7. Making others smile
8. Initiating or taking part in awkward conversations/situations
9. Reading very random things at odd times of the day
10. Short and long  hikes
11. Daydreaming
12. Writing down my most heartfelt sentiments and then erasing them right away
13. Being in photographs
14. loving…

Favorite things to see, observe, watch:

1. First times’ insecurities
2. The sunrise
3. People having true fun no matter how ridiculous they look
4. The invisible people of New York City
5. Beautiful paintings, photographs (odd ones too)
6. Modern dancers
7. Street performers
8. Strange, foreign films
9. The colors red, neon green, fuschia and plum
10. Odd shaped rocks and trees
11. Bridges behind fog
12. Rainbows without the storm or after  the storm
13. Social outcasts
14. Old couples holding hand

Favorite Authors:

1. Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Kurt Vonnegut
3. Maryse Conde
4. Alexandre Dumas

Favorite Artists/Painters:

1. Salvador Dali
2. Rene Magritte
3. Alain Breton
4. Anna Stange

Favorite places in New York:

1. Momofuku ssam bar
2. Momofuku milk bar
3. Num Pang sandwich shop
4. Trader Joe’s
5. Fareway Supermarket (Harlem)
6. Greenwich village
7. MoMA
8. FIAF short for “French Alliance Institute Francaise”
9. Highline
10. Porchetta
11. Bryant Park
12. Harlem
13. Shrine Bar