Yeah. Our culture is quite a wild side, yet so free. Many of my childhood friends grew into that lifestyle and I envy them. So you can say I'm a little homesick. Even the mock Carnivals we have in Miami doesn't seem to have that "life" I'm looking for.
Your mom sounds hilarious. If only mine can still go into trini slang at random moments XD
Lol nothing compares to the "life" of Carnival for sure. I dunno tho, the trini party lifestyle isn't for me personally. I don't drink, I don't lime, and i'm pretty conservative. I can just imagine going back home and getting "show some more skin gyal!" lol.
Talking to my mom though, she tells me so many stories of her childhood when Trinidad wasn't the place it is now. People growing vegetables in the yard, keeping chickens to kill on a sunday, goats lol (my Grandma had goats but would never kill them <3), people having respect and manners: "If we didn't say 'Good morning Mrs. so-and-so' on our way to school, we would see Mama standing in the yard on my way back home.." haha.
Seems like simpler times. More difficult times for sure but I would love to experience life like that.
You guys have a Carnival too? o3o Does it get as insane as it does in Greece and Cyprus??
Oh Lawd, Chrissie. Imagine a…. I think it's six days? A six day island wide party, with trucks blasting music down streets, people dressed in colourful, shiny, feathery costumes (covering little to nothing) and people partying from morning to night. There's also a King and Queen of Carnival with these massive costumes like this and this and this. What's yours like? o_O