hey guys welcome back to my channel my name is Mills and I make videos about
living in the Dominican Republic, expat life, and other random things that I'm
interested in talking about. I am finally back in Santiago I've been here for a
couple weeks I think maybe like a week and a half I was in Arizona visiting my
family for Christmas for a while so it's good to be back sure you can tell that
I'm back because this situation it's super humid it was just raining I'm in
PUCMM so I'm up here like in front of the soccer field and remember I'm
going to do a Q&A video soon so if you have any questions for me at all feel
free to comment on this video let me know any questions about living the
Dominican Republic what it's like being an expat here my life in general
New York Arizona whatever honestly I get time I'll put it together and that will
be out soon today I wanted to make a video about habits that I've picked up
since living in the Dominican Republic so I've been here a little over a year
and a half now and there's definitely things that I found myself adapting to
things like quicker than others and when I go back to the States
to visit I have to like readjust and like a job back to American Way or
whatever so I wanted to kind of go over some of them and I would love to hear
about you for those of you that are expats here as well or visited what are
things that you picked up on super quickly or eventually and now they just
seem so normal to you or if you're Dominican and you are in the States now
I would love to hear what you've picked up from living in the States that you
didn't used to do when you were in the Dominican Republic or any country
whatever I just love to hear your your guys's opinions as well number one the
first thing that I've picked up on living in the Dominican Republic is a
lot of gestures so first one pointing with my lips which one people who when I
first moved here when I was taking vacations here I thought it was so funny
that people would like for example someone said where's the water bottle I
would be like just like point there there I think it's
so funny so but now I do it all the time saves me from sneaking so that is one
gesture that I do all the time now pointing with my lips like whatever
wherever something is it's a super Dominican thing I haven't really seen it
before here number two what I do another gesture is to eat so I don't do this one
too much what I do find myself doing it if I'm telling someone it's like time to
eat I did it to my students when I was teaching so instead of being like you
know time to eat caught me or like focus on eating because they're always like
looking everywhere else I would just be like this sign this sign really like
here and yeah now I'm I'm used to that one another thing this is probably the
one that I do most of like the gestures is scrunching up your nose when you
don't understand something so if someone says anything to me
family friends strangers and I don't understand what they're saying the no
scrunch does it all just it's hard to like do it on command but like I
couldn't be more awkward if I tried I can't do it like a little someone said
something and I'm like okay like why no scrunch that one I love I do it at home
and my mom is like what are you doing another kind of gesture I do this as a
joke but I just think it's funny that you can like describe things without
saying anything one of my favorites is this one like can you see my elbow like
Tacano or tacana basically meaning
someone's cheap so I don't know if someone says do you want to go out and
they say no can't spend money you can say cheap I just think that's funny
another habit I'm so used to now is when I say hi to someone or greet someone I
always like half hug and at least touch the cheeks if not like a full-on kiss on
the cheek and it's not that weird for me because in the u.s. I do it with my
family at least my immediate family I'm trying to think I don't think it was
like my cousins and someone like my aunts and uncles and stuff but it wasn't
that we but it is a little bit weird here that
you do it with strangers too and you know Americans aren't as like
touchy-feely as Dominicans are for sure so now I'm just so used to I don't even
think about it you meet someone new you're introducing them and you
automatically like go in for the side hug cheek press / kiss deal and when I
went home for Christmas I like did that to a couple people like a couple of my
parents friends and they were definitely like stay away from me but I like it I
think it's something like nice what they do here another thing I picked up since
living here this is not a good one is I say cono all the time so bad I
know a lot of Dominicans don't even say this because they're classier than me
but yeah I don't know if it's me trying to like get away with it cuz in the
States like if they don't speak Spanish no one
knows what I'm saying so you know I like stop might or drop something or whatever
I can be like I corneal and I forget like everyone knows what that means here
and it's like not the nicest word so bad habit but I hear it a lot here so I
picked it up really quickly another habit that I've picked up on is being
completely unfazed by seeing like five people on a motorcycle carrying a
refrigerator or like dragging a million pieces of wood behind them honestly the
funniest one was inaudible Cola there's a moto pulling a guy like a grandfather
in a wheelchair he had like a rope and they're just like pulling him along
uphill downhill speeding no worries that line like caught me off guard I thought
it was hilarious but overall I'm not fazed by like any crazy moto stunts
anymore since living here when I first moved here I was like oh my gosh is so
dangerous there's a newborn baby in the on the highway on a moto with three
other people but now I'm just like well that's how it is I was like carry fans
on Moto's like massive things all my groceries just unfazed
alright I'm trying to switch up some angles for you guys so you don't get too
bored of me Oh along with like driving I know I say
all the time I hate driving here and I do facts
um because it's you know a mess but I'm in the habit more of just like honking
whenever I need to so if someone's going fast slow anything
you honk here and it's not like necessarily rude it just is what it is
when I went homes the states and I was like just a little hung to people were
like chill out which understandable because I never hung there he's it's
super rude I feel like unless you're in like a big city or whatever another
habit that I have picked up on since living here is having a very small if
any breakfast and then a massive lunch and then a small dinner or no dinner or
a really late dinner so this might not even be like so typical but the habit I
picked up on at least for my experience or the people I hang out with is small
breakfast big ass lunch like I eat so much at lunch I feel like I do and even
still my fiance's family is like you don't even eat I'm like mmm clearly I
eat like I'm used to a bigger breakfast and in a smaller lunch and then like a
normal dinner back home but now I have really I don't have right person anymore
and then I'll have the lunch and then dinner at like 10:00 p.m. is like no big
deal but it's not a big dinner just like something really light and along with
that flat tunnels when I was in the States I missed it so much like mangu I
love mangu I love mangu I had a yesterday it's just
so good and we don't have we don't eat it there so that's like I'm in the habit
of Platanos if that is a habit I'm a big fan of platanos they're so versatile
it's great something that I've picked up on is
again I said just a lot when I was teaching in Jarabacoa because now
I am NOT like out isn't as much during lunch time I'm usually in the house but
if I see someone eating I say buen provecho which means like enjoy your
meal whatever have a nice meal something like
that and I never really did that at home and the state's only if it's like all of
us are sitting down together to eat and you say like let's enjoy or something I
don't know but here even if you're like walking by someone who's eating food
already like you see someone eating you say it like enjoy your meal and I
say all the time and I don't know why I used to think that was so weird
I wasn't used to at all like someone would be be eating and someone walk by
and say it and I was like we're not even eating together I don't know maybe
that's just me but now I say it another one that I know I said in another video
I don't like but I'm going to clarify I say a lot now I don't like it when men
do it on the street to get your attention because they want to like talk
to you or whatever I want you to look at them and they don't like it when people
do it to waiters in a restaurant and I'm and people aren't trying to do it to be
rude it's like I said just like cultural to me it just feels rude especially in
the restaurant setting just because I equate it with like snapping I don't
know why from the states and I know that's rude but here I will do it to get
someone's attention if I'm like trying to talk to them and they're like too far
so I do it too like my friends or my fiancee a lot if they're like a little
bit too far or headphones blasting he has all the time so I'll be like and
it's so effective like for some reason you know like say he's like down there
the other end of these bleachers I could scream his name and he won't hear me I'm
not like I don't have like a loud yelling voice but if I say instantly
I'll turn around so that I've picked up on a lot probably not
have it to bring back home with me they're having a really intense game of
soccer as always I've also like picked up more terms of endearment
I think oven when I was living in the US and now I'm like I don't know it's funny
I remember specifically I used to work with a girl and she was married to a
Dominican and she would always say like both of them to each other because they
would send like voice notes back and forth so like everyone could hear and it
was always just like hola mi amor como estas te amö mi rey mi Reina y mi cielo
mi alma mi luz mi paz mi vida and I was like wow like they like really like
each other now that I live here like I say that stuff all the time I mean even
to like friends or family or anything mium or anything take you to mucho like
you just say more affectionate terms I think it's cute I like it and finally
I'm in the habit of hospitality more after living here I cannot tell you how
hospitable Dominicans are they're so warm and welcoming
you know honestly even if they don't want to be in the moment they are like
if I have a friend or anyone in their house
you know sometimes they're just like oh I'm tired I want to get off the couch or
I don't know you know what I mean they're gonna offer them food and coffee
and water and juice and soda or make a meal or anything and I just love that
people always say like here you can ask your neighbor for anything like sugar
milk butter whatever if you've run out of something and we can do that in the
States - I just feel like they're like divinations are more hospitable I can't
tell you how many times I've like ended up at someone's house for lunch and I
like barely know them and I think it's so sweet I think like I don't know what
it is about me but I think cooking or providing food for someone it's like one
of the nicest things that you can do I don't know why I've always thought that
like sharing your food maybe it's because it's like you need food to live
I don't know the connection but I've just always loved that so the
hospitality here letting one into your home always giving someone
a ride like never being like oh no there's no room or like I'm not going
that way I just feel like more Hospital even
someone like needing to spend the night somewhere I've like my first date with
my fiance we got in a car accident we ended up at one of his high school
friends Beach apartments that he hadn't seen in a while I had never met
obviously because we had just met and we like slept on their floor and they
cooked us breakfast and it was just like so nice and I feel like in the States
they would've been like uh I haven't talked to you in like a year or like I
don't even know this girl like no that is something I love and it's taught me
to be more like giving with my time and more patient and just like enjoying a
moment and really like treating people like we're all family and giving like
clothes away that I don't need anymore and helping and other in any way that I
can like provide so I really like that habit that I picked up on and I feel
like I've always kind of been like that but after living here and seeing like
the level that some people go to I'm like wow like I can step it up so that's
a good habit and there's a bunch of other things that I should pick up on
like you know people here just like go all out when they're going out even to
the grocery store hair makeup heals that about whatever I know like people here
are like this girl needs to go to the salon and straighten her freaking hair
no I don't want to I don't want to watch it's too long um but yeah there's only
other habits I haven't picked up on that I should and other ones that are just so
funny that I don't think I could like adapt to as easily I think that's it for
all the things I've picked up on there's definitely so many more but I couldn't
it's so hard to think when it becomes like so normal to you to then think like
wait what is now like a habit that I didn't have before comment below any of
the habits that you picked up on here or wherever else you live that you're not
from or something that's like totally Dominican that I missed
and thank you for watching I always appreciate it
remember if you have any questions for me I'll be making the Q&A video I really
want to get to a thousand subs think I'm like I honestly don't know how many have
right now but 200 something away so if you can hit subscribe that would be
amazing thank you so much I really appreciate every single person who does
and next thing I want to make is when I was in the state's I had a I bought a
bunch of Mexican candy and when I'm here I bought a bunch of Dominican candy that
I don't really eat and it's um that I've never even tried because I'm not like
big too big on it and I wanted to do kind of like a Mexican not vs. but like
an Dominican Mexican just because it was like available in Arizona and they had
like super spicy candy and some of us we're like I want to show you guys like
some of this candy that I've never seen before it's freaking weird but I want to
like compare the two let me know if that's a good idea
and you know we can do some like takis taste testing anyway thank you so much
for watching and I will see you guys soon bye
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