When given the opportunity to write about a country, I had no hesitation when choosing Haiti because that is where I am from. I lived there for 17 years, until I had to move to the United States after the earthquake. Although Haiti is now a third world country, it used to be called "La perle des Antilles" , which means Pearl of the Caribbean. Both the French and the Spanish invaded and fought for Haiti because of all it had to offer. The following picture is a picture of Hispaniola which is how it was called in the past

During the 1500's Haiti had a lot of Gold. When the French and Spanish discovered that, they started to move there to enrich themselves. At first, they used the Indians as slaves to do the dirty work for them, but when their race was starting to disappear, they brought in slaves from Africa. The tropical climate is also a reason why they liked here so much as opposed to the cold weather they had in Europe. Nowadays, people still have expeditions to find gold from the pirate ships which sinked in Haiti's water. Until this day, none of them has been found yet, probably due to the high cost of those expeditions, but there is hope that if it is to be found, Haiti might become "La perle des Antilles" as she use to be.