Carnival Memories !!!
It was her first time back in 12 years, excitement galore! Lemme get ah snow cone dey, 2 doubles with plenty pepper, go slight on de coconut water hard on the Johnny. Aye " dat is kurma yuh know how long I ent eat that". Time to cross de stage is pace, she wondering if the camera man will pick her up and splash her wanton misbehavior across TV screens far and wide ? We turn around for one minute and she vanished. Maybe she crossed ahead, she must have or maybe she in the lunch park; nope. We getting frantic , what we going to tell her mother ? We bring yuh daughter to Trinidad and lost her while playing mas. 2hrs was spent in a Porta Potty, the constant knocking on the door brought her back to her senses. She knew that she needed to get home so she walked to St Ann"s roundabout, even thought the house was right by the Savannah turned around and walked back home. Her first Carnival Memory!!!!!
I am procrastinator. So it was nothing for me to go to that zoo of a consulate in January for an extension. However, they said eh heh is so , Carnival may be an emergency for you but it is not an emergency for we . What !!! If I had tears I would have cried. I was back in two days with a notarized letter, a plane ticket and a sad story. Stamp!!! Thank God my grandmother had passed many years prior and I was not calling things on her head. I never did get to use that plane ticket and like they say my money literally jumped up in Steel Band that year. My Carnival Stories.
2001 was my first time. Poison was de band , de costume was blue and there was no Monday wear. I played mas by MYSELF. Yep it was just me and those random bamses I was wining on. I had decided on a dime, quit my job, and was gone for 45days. I was fearless and thin. A decade later I am still fearless, with Monday Wear now and I am working on de thin. My Carnival Stories !!!
We were migrating in a few weeks and Carnival was early that year. So we decided to hit as many fetes as we could. Mind you this was the mid nineties so there was no such thing as an all inclusive or ultra inclusive. Ah fete was ah fete. We got ready by the brother of a friend and made it to the venue. We were suppose to be hanging with Larry and his posse, boy were they dotish. So we decided to duck them, that was the longest toilet break in history. Macheal and Xtatic came on stage and when I heard the first blast of that truck horn , I was in my glory. I promised my self then and there that I would be back for every single Carnival. Little did I know what Uncle Sam's land had in store for me . It would be 5 years before I was able to feel that feeling again !!!!!
