Starting a list of things that confused me living in Jamaica

1. Not being able to refer to a male friend as my buddy.

2. Learning that “beg you a call” means the requestor is not begging you to call them but rather just wants to borrow your phone...

3. They eat something called a bulla.

The irony of this still amazes me.

4. Jamaicans refer to the rest of the Caribbean as the “small islands”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5. Ginger. In. Everything.

What’s up with that Jamaica?

6. If you’re a female in Jamaica and your name isn’t made up of two names ending in ‘Kay’ or ‘Ann’, do you even exist?

7. How you gonna have a soca party and play 90% dancehall?

8. Eating a Jamaican patty between bread. Flour on top of flour...

(Btw this is actually heaven so thank you Jamaica)

9. Restaurants (cook shops? I forget the name) serving you 95% rice, 4.9% meat and 0.1% gravy...

Ma’am where the rest of my meat and why you trying to choke me on rice???

10. Getting in a taxi (alone) at UWI and then 5 mins later in Papine having to share the back seat with FOUR other people. Uber pool was invented in Jamaica.

11. Adding this to the list late but imagine getting to the end of a sad story and a Jamaican responding with “Hush”...