I'm ah EAST West kinda girly
born in West , live in East for the majority of dey teenage life, headed back tur dey West until boarded plane for this old ass country
living in dey West again
daddy side of family from Sando tur Moruga. So for August holidays, as soon as mommy see Friday school closed, she ship us to Moruga for 2 months....ehh go by allyuh grandmother, ay need ah break
1 week before school open we get a lamp oil and castrol oil purge and grandmother send us back to we mommy.
routine for primary school tur form 2 school years.
and i will tell you this honestly....country vacation were dey BEST....FREEDOM for so. Every tree possible to climb and talk bout food ?
it ain't have nothing bout parlour bread, milo, sweet drink and ting...is cocoa tea, with hot bread with( butter and on special occasion peanut butter and really special den ya get jam) from dey oven and mauby straight.
no KFC or Royal Castle....is dey chicken in dey yard, WILD MEAT for so. dumplin and stew chicken, fish broth, in dem days no pelau is peas and rice with chicken gravy, is blue food, cassava, dasheen bush, ochra (arghhhh) boddie and the ever so popular curry.
in those days in the country side, each household had 5 children miminum so ya know is mass.
by 6 pm DARKNESS...cause ah no street light, we hadda depend on dey moon light. every man jack outside in dey road playing, cricket with ah small coconut and ah piece ah flat wood, catch, rounders, or we jus come back from dey beach and everybody tail bun caise dem days didn't have sun block and tanning lotion steups....all ya does hear "ah cyah make grandchildren, find allyuh ass in dey bathroom" Man ain't want to bath cause dey bathroom dark (no light) and ya cyah take ah candle tur bath....dey only torch light is meh grandfadda own which he does use to go hunting...batteries expensive i guess in those days.
before ah start to cry lemme done.
miss dem days we....