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Mexico, Latin & South AmericaYardies at Home and a Farrin (part15)
QUOTE (sus @ Jun 4 2009, 08:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Has anyone read Eric Jerome Dickey? I love his books -

I read Jen Sylvania, such a pretty fat - while I was in Jamaica - I almost peed my pants laughing at it - if anyone has ever dieted / had weight issues, you can totally relate.

Love Jerome Dickey!!

I remember you promising to lend me it lol!!
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-04 08:33:00
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JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-04 05:25:00
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QUOTE (Haymsmorgan @ Jun 3 2009, 05:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
JaE I am loving the pics….u take a lot of great landscapes too….what kind of camera do u use…the pics were perfect…u are sooooo talented….and sorry to hear about ur friends dilemma….its so sad that this man is treating her like this, when all she wants is to bring her son with her to JA.

Thank you smile.gif

I have a Nikon D300.....


It hurts me, but what is worse for me is I gave her advice evry step of the way which she ignored....now this is rock bottom almost....but she's my friend...
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 19:38:00
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Now for more.

He went = him guh
They went = dem guh/ unu guh
You went(singular) = yuh guh
You went (plural) = unu guh

He came =him come
They came = dem come
You (singular) came = yuh come
You (plural) came =dem come

He ran = him run
They ran = dem run
You ran = yuh run

etc etc
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 15:34:00
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Patois Class

Today we shall study exclamations

Mi bumbo!
Mi baxside!
Lawd hav mercy!
Mi prem prem!
What a calamity!!
Rahtid!!
Blurtnaught!!!

They mean 'Oh my God!!', "Oh My!', 'Jesus!"


yayy jaeng!! hmmm i can say most of those, BUT never heard of blurtnaught.. sounds just like its spelled right?? BLURT NOT???

the 'not' part sounds like 'naa-rt'


gotcha!!

try it tonight when you talk to your SO....

Just out of the blue say 'BLURTNAUGHTTTTTTT!! I nearly forgot to put my drycleaning in' rofl.gif

or something similar....
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 15:28:00
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QUOTE (JaEnglishGirl @ Jun 3 2009, 03:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Patois Class

Today we shall study exclamations

Mi bumbo!
Mi baxside!
Lawd hav mercy!
Mi prem prem!
What a calamity!!
Rahtid!!
Blurtnaught!!!

They mean 'Oh my God!!', "Oh My!', 'Jesus!"


yayy jaeng!! hmmm i can say most of those, BUT never heard of blurtnaught.. sounds just like its spelled right?? BLURT NOT???

the 'not' part sounds like 'naa-rt'
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 15:17:00
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Patois Class

Today we shall study exclamations

Mi bumbo!
Mi baxside!
Lawd hav mercy!
Mi prem prem!
What a calamity!!
Rahtid!!
Blurtnaught!!!

They mean 'Oh my God!!', "Oh My!', 'Jesus!"
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 15:10:00
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QUOTE (DaDa @ Jun 3 2009, 02:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
O.k. wait stop the press!!! What is baxside??

I

baxside = backside =butt
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 14:56:00
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Bwaay, mi wear a wig ONE time dung deh, NEVA again!!

Mi feel like a sauna mi deh to baxside!!
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 14:37:00
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Thank you Philly....
Dada, mi wish mi coulda fine one...lawd......
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 14:35:00
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QUOTE (Rick Ross @ Jun 3 2009, 01:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Ja.. Your pictures are AMAZING...

Thank you smile.gif
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 13:26:00
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QUOTE (Jomo's girl @ Jun 3 2009, 11:38 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Find herself a good immigration attorney.

she has no money for that...any lawyer she has will have to be pro-bono....

Roxie, she came here legally but overstayed...

Tenks Kimmy and Quana!
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 12:18:00
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QUOTE (JaEnglishGirl @ Jun 3 2009, 11:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (StoneLove4Ever @ Jun 3 2009, 10:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
But wouldn't the baby have to come to the US every six months since he is "Uncle Sam's" baby???...So wouldn't she have to send him up to the US???

First I heard of this!!!

I know for perm residents you can't stay outside of US for too long...they will ask for greencard back.

absolutely, but for CITIZENS??

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QUOTE (StoneLove4Ever @ Jun 3 2009, 10:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
But wouldn't the baby have to come to the US every six months since he is "Uncle Sam's" baby???...So wouldn't she have to send him up to the US???

First I heard of this!!!

I know for perm residents you can't stay outside of US for too long...they will ask for greencard back.


Ya if you are a US Citizen you can stay gone as long as you want. My brother has been living in Germany for about 10 years now and he doesn't come back every 6 months.

that's what I thought....
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 10:55:00
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QUOTE (StoneLove4Ever @ Jun 3 2009, 10:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
But wouldn't the baby have to come to the US every six months since he is "Uncle Sam's" baby???...So wouldn't she have to send him up to the US???

First I heard of this!!!
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 10:46:00
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QUOTE (TRELAWNY PARISH @ Jun 3 2009, 10:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
She don't need to worry about that. I just went through the same thing in March. She has to fill out (cho) mek mi go find the form http://www.state.gov...ation/80106.pdf

The link above that's the form I used since my son's father (listed on the BC) refused to sign it. I had to explain my circumstances. My son got his passport 3 weeks later.

What did you tell them??

Onto my second question, if she takes the baby and goes home, could she be charged with abduction or kidnapping?
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 10:21:00
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QUOTE (JaEnglishGirl @ Jun 3 2009, 11:07 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
She doesn't care about being deported, she WANTS to go home, but she doesn't want to be parted from her child...She would gladly take her baby home TODAY!


Her best bet would be to fight him for custody - or if she has a passport for the baby, just go to JA now and then file for custody there - If it came down to it, and he got her deported, they would have to fight custody to determine where the baby would live -

Unfortunately, she went against my advice and put him on the birth certificate. He won't sign for the baby to have a passport...
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 10:12:00
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QUOTE (sus @ Jun 3 2009, 09:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (JaEnglishGirl @ Jun 3 2009, 10:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I have a question.

Friend of mine is here illegally, her child was born here. Her scumbag ex keeps threatening to get her deported and take the child away.
Does anyone know if this is something that is likely to happen?



Unfortunately, yes, it could - The likelihood that immigration would go after an individual is slim - but it's always possible, the fact that she has an American child doesn't have any bearing on her illegal status - they could deport her at some point.

She doesn't care about being deported, she WANTS to go home, but she doesn't want to be parted from her child...She would gladly take her baby home TODAY!
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 10:07:00
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I have a question.

Friend of mine is here illegally, her child was born here. Her scumbag ex keeps threatening to get her deported and take the child away.
Does anyone know if this is something that is likely to happen?
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 09:44:00
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QUOTE (newlynluv @ Jun 3 2009, 09:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
mawning ladies **big ole yarn** i am so damn tired btwn the gym and jay being so chatty all of a sudden i am beat! anyways this whether in NYC is pissing me the heck off come on it's June already!!! Sus great pics i love them, Jaenglish girl you are good star_smile.gif please tell me you do this on the side professionally because those pics are the ish!

I do lol smile.gif
Wish I could do it full time...maybe in few years..
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 09:33:00
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QUOTE (RoxcieJoe @ Jun 3 2009, 08:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
JaEnglish, do you work for a Georgetown Medical Group ?

Nope....I work for a pediatric dentist practice....
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 09:00:00
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QUOTE (RoxcieJoe @ Jun 3 2009, 08:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
JaEnglish, I am loving it, so I have decided to work from home the next two days. I was home yesterday aswell. I am a summer person, I blossom and glow in the summer, the winter months I am like a bear I want to sleep and be insided.

I saw your pictures they are great. Good work....

Dammit, why couldn't I work from home toooooo? LOL I am a summer person too, HATE winter with a PASSION!

Thanks smile.gif
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 08:45:00
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QUOTE (RoxcieJoe @ Jun 3 2009, 08:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Bunzarelli, do not use DHL to send any packages to the USA. We used them to send out a 2 page doc, from last Friday, and it got held up in customs for a whole day. I have yet to receive something that was supposed to be delivered on Sat.

DHL SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Roxie, how are you enjoying the lovely MD weather?
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 08:14:00
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QUOTE (NatPatBen @ Jun 3 2009, 06:36 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
JaEng, I like what you did with those last few shots in their album. And the entire Jamaica Landscapes album is wow.gif especially b22 & b28. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you smile.gif
Need to update the album with some NEW stuff...

QUOTE (Shemmy @ Jun 3 2009, 06:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Tara is the best good.gif

Lol thank you girlie!


QUOTE (acrow @ Jun 3 2009, 06:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
JaEnglish, those pictures are beautiful.

Thank you smile.gif

QUOTE (sus @ Jun 3 2009, 07:04 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Thanks, Nat - I am really happy with the pics, JAEng is incredible!

*blushes coyly*

If you SAY so rofl.gif

It helped I had gorgeous willing subjects!!
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 07:54:00
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Actually, just go to my website http://tara956.zenfolio.com/ and click on the Jamaica album!
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 05:07:00
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JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 05:05:00
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So instead of sleeping, I\'ve been playing around on Facebook & finally used the Friends List feature. It\'s nice. You create a list (I named mine Yardies) then I added the people to it from this site. So now the list shows up on the main page and if I click it, I only see updates from the friends in that list.

Assignment: I need all of you to post more photos from your trips to Jamaica, so that I can view them and pretend I\'m in Jamaica.








Edited by JaEnglishGirl, 03 June 2009 - 05:03 AM.

JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-03 05:00:00
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Hmm....for the patois classes, I have no idea how to start rofl.gif
Maybe something like you email me in English and I email back in patois? And you translate?
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-06-02 15:34:00
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Workplace drama....

So, they have cut our internet use. We aren't supposed to the company pcs for any internet use.
Couple days ago, was showing another girl in the office something on a COMPANY website, which IS allowed.
So today was chatting with oine of the girls I work with who was complaining about a writeup she got for interrnet use. She turned round to me and told me point blank one of the docs had apparently seen me doing this and told he she should report me. Me and the doc are cool as hell, so I went straight to him hm and was like #######? He said hell no did he say any such thing, so I brought her in the office and asked her again. This b*tch says 'Oh I meant John (another co-worker), but I said the doc by mistake.
So John comes in and I corner him too, he said hellllll no.

Known she was a liar for a good while now, but finally happy she's been caught in the act. Sick of the #######.

Now, John thinks there's no point in confronting her AGAIN, because hten it's going to be an unconfortable thing going on, but do you think there needs to be a final confrontation to prove it definitively???

Or leave it?
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-08-06 09:25:00
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QUOTE (Bunzarelli @ Aug 2 2009, 08:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
i just saw a man in the audience with a kid and play hair style (flat top)
laaawd i never even know seh ppl still where dem hair style deh

i realise i am talking to myself
but a nuh nuttin sleepy.gif

mi lissen yuh...evn dow mi nuh interested one iota in di rising stars ting lol
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-08-02 20:41:00
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I understand how the term 'boy' can be misconstrued, but I really can't see Ellseven being conscious of the way she used it as having negative connotations.....to me she used it in a playful joking manner. I think sometimes we have to be careful about being over sensitive. By all means, point it out, just in case she used it thst way in conversation and someone became offended. I think to be honest, it is a thing with black Americans more than Jamaicans. "Boy' can be used as a diss, but more in terms of referring to age or respect than in a racial context which Jamaicans don't associate with the word.
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-08-02 20:34:00
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QUOTE (finesse @ Jul 30 2009, 06:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
whaapen to jahlove? mi nuh really memba har story but she used to be pon here often

she doing REALLY well!
her hubby adjusting well, her baby cute as hell...
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-07-30 18:57:00
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QUOTE (JAPrincess @ Jul 30 2009, 06:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I wonder what she thinks unsure.gif

I think you are smart enough to know to make the right choice smile.gif

can't see you being taken in lol


JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-07-30 18:56:00
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It does make me sad to hear of the ended journeys, but for most that fail, I had my doubts....guess in those cases I am always glad that the journey ended sooner rather than later...

what makes me get a lump in my chest is hearing someone go on about their SO and how much they love them when I think the relationship is doomed....
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-07-30 17:58:00
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QUOTE (NatPatBen @ Jul 30 2009, 01:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (finesse @ Jul 30 2009, 01:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
that is depressing...why u thinkin about that?

I was wondering this too. Then I wondered if JG and JaPrincess are talking about a certain person whose journey recently ended. Then I wondered how JaP would know that that's who JG is talking about. Then I thought... but that happened a good two weeks ago, so it can't be what has JG upset today. Then I stopped wondering.

Maybe she just found out?
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-07-30 17:40:00
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lawd finesse, yuh a gwaan gooddddd....all dis time mi tink yuh was BLACK!!!
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-07-29 19:02:00
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Still recovering from my weekend on NY...friend of mine from London came over, had a shoot cancellation at 10am Sat morning and just decided to jump in the car and drive to NY at 11am. Had a really good time, took me 5 hours there, 3.5 to get back on Sunday night....Drove around like a maniac, happily blending in with the NY drivers.....Loved Flatbush, can't wait to go back for some REAL shopping lol....Slept 12 hours both last night and the night before last...think I've finally caught up on sleep...
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-07-29 12:27:00
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I really don't know how a mother in the position of deciding whether her child goes abroad feels.
But I guess, part of the Jamaican way of life is that mothers and fathers go abroad leaving their children and children go abroad to their mothers or fathers as soon as the parent gains a foothold.
It is an accepted an familiar occurrence. It is also something that is built up as wonderful, as kids we were all envoius of those whose parents filed for them and went abroad.
I think as well, as selfish as I am as a mother, if I realized truly the best thing was for the child to go abroad, that would ease the pain of parting.
My vest friend has been in England for almost 7 years, she hasn't seen her daughter for 4.
I cannot imagine how that feels. But she says she endures for the greater good.
So really, we should take out hats of to the mothers who love their kids dearly (yes I know it's often easier to think they don't love them as much) but make the choice for them to move away for a better life.

On another note...
Obviously I don't know your individual stories, but I do wonder why it seems the MAJORITY of people's SO's baby mothers are depicted as being incompetent/money grabbing monsters. In reality, I find MOST mothers are good mothers. Perhaps not good spouses, but LOVE their kids.

Story I wrote lol...

Some of you may have seen it already...

The Return

My earliest memories of her are faint. She smelt lovely, like oranges, nutmeg and mint all mixed up. She used to sing to me before I went to sleep and she would be there making my tea for me in the morning.
That was before she went ‘a foreign’. Then, I went to live with Aunt Pearl. She hates me Aunt Pearl does. I get a beating for coming in too late, for singing too loudly, for eating out the Milo, for walking too slow when she sends me to the shop…..
I wonder what my mother is like.
In Aunt Pearl’s dim front room beside the cabinet full of fragile plates and crystal glasses that we only use when Pastor Blake comes round, there are framed pictures of a light skinned woman, plump but nicely plump.
I don’t think I remember that face.
She has never called but every month the postman comes by on his bicycle and gives Aunt Pearl a blue and white envelope with foreign stamps on it. Aunt Pearl never tells me what’s in those letters, but she goes to market the day after she gets them, so my mother must send money. I know it’s my mother as once Aunt Pearl was in the bathroom and she tells me harshly to go collect the letter,. I turn it over and my mother’s name is on it. I say nothing to Aunt Pearl, as I don’t want a beating that day, she is not in a good mood, I can see by the way she snatches it from me.
I asked her once, after leaving a few weeks what was in it. Her face went dark as a thundercloud and she reaches for the strap.
“Is what a way dis dutty pickney fass doh?”
“Is nat enough seh mi feed yu an clothes yu outa di kindness a mi heart, but yu waa come fass ina mi business too??”

Later that night as I toss and turn, the places where the belt has bitten into my skin, I wipe the tears off my face.
I dream of the day when my mother will come back for me and take me to her foreign land. Whenever the children at school taunt me saying ‘Yu madda run gaan lef yu”, I reply, “Mi madda soon come fi me.” They laugh, but I hold onto the hope, after all what do I have to look forward to if not that.

Maybe she has left me for good I think. Why does she never send me clothes or toys like the mothers of other girls do?
She must know that I only have one pair of shoes, and those are for school. And only one blouse and skirt which I wash every evening when I come in from school and rise early and press before making Aunt Pearl’s breakfast in the mornings.
Maybe what Aunt Pearl says is true. My mother never wanted me, so when she got the chance to go to foreign, she jumped at it. Aunt Pearl says she was going to leave me on the roadside, but she as a Christian took me in.
That’s why I must be grateful for the things Aunt Pearl buys me. I must be happy that I sleep inside even if it is on an old mattress on the floor. I must be happy as I clean and polish the floor every Saturday and wash Aunt Pearl’s clothes. After all, I am almost a woman at twelve.
Aunt Pearl says my mother will never come back for me. She was just happy someone took me off her hands.

I shut my eyes, I have to sleep I need to be up at 6am to press my uniform and make Aunt Pearl’s breakfast before I go to school. I need to leave for school by 7am even though it doesn’t start until 8am, it is a long way and Aunt Pearl says there is no money for me to take the bus, a little walking never killed no-one.

I wake up. My limbs are stiff and sore, I must put some Vaseline on my skin, it makes it better. I hope Aunt Pearl won’t notice that I took some out, I am only allowed a little when I wash my hair.

I push the cloth hanging at my door aside and I unbolt the back door softly, if I wake Aunt Pearl, I will get a beating when I get in from school. I go into the outside shower and begin to bathe. The icy-cold water hits me and I hold my breath to lessen the shock. I lather my rag with my little piece of carbolic soap, Aunt Pearl says it must last me, she has no money to waste on pickney.
I long dreamily about one day when I will get to bathe in the creamy white bath inside with hot water like Aunt Pearl. But if I had a daughter, I would help her draw the water for the bath, not just let her carry the heavy zinc pan like Aunt Pearl makes me do.
I realise with a start that I have spent too long, I need to hurry if I am going to leave on time, Aunt Pearl is having saltfish, fried dumplings and plantain for breakfast. My mouth waters. Maybe if I’m careful, I can take a little bit for myself, I am tired of the cornmeal porridge that I must eat every morning. If Aunt Pearl realises I have taken any, there will be no school for me today.

I finish the breakfast and go to wake Aunt Pearl.
She lies there like a massive cow, snoring heavily. Her large oily face seeming out of place on her frilly pillow.
“Aunt Pearl, yu breakfass ready.” I say.


She snorts and blearily opens an eye.
“Mi a come. Mek sure seh mi tea dep pan di table an it well hat”.
“Yes, Aunt Pearl”, I say.

I go back to the kitchen to get her coffee. As I stir in the milk, I see a car coming down the road. I look curiously, who could be coming to see someone in our village so early?
The car slows and stops at our gate.
I can’t decide whether to go call Aunt Pearl or wait and see what happens.
A woman in a white dress and white slippers gets out. Her face looks familiar…..
My heart thumps in excitement, it is the woman in the picture, MY MOTHER!!
I drop the cup of tea and unlock the door, ignoring Aunt Pearl’s enraged bellow as she hears the mug shatter.
I run out to the gate, which the woman is trying to open.
“Mama?”, I say.
She looks at me, in my torn dirty nightie that was once Aunt Pearl’s and is hanging off my thin body and looks back at my face horrified.
My heart sinks, and I lower my eyes, Aunt Pearl was right, she doesn’t want me, she never did.
I hang my head down.
I feel her arms around me, squeezing my breath out of my body holding me so tight I can hardly breathe. She holds me close, I feel her warm tears of my neck, she is sobbing.
“My baby, oh my baby”, she says.
She rubs my back, and I flinch where she has touched a fresh bruise.
Slowly she holds me away from her and looks at me, her eyes take in my thinness, the shadows under my eyes.She lifts my nightie, I go to push away her hand but she continues, and gasps as she sees the welts and the scars of welts.

I hear a loud gasp, Aunt Pearl is standing at the door, the hated strap drops from her fingers as she stands rooted to the spot.
My mother turns to her with fire in her eyes.
“How could you do dis to mi pickney?”, she screams.
“Mi lef mi one gyaal pickney wid yu and send money every mont fi har an yu have har ya a beat an a starve like dutty dawg??”
Aunt Pearl says, “Myrna, calm dung, mi wi explain.”
My mother is past calming down. “Yu seh yu is a Christian, LOOK PAN MI PICKNEY!!”
She lifts my nightie and I am embarrassed as my underwear are old and discoloured and a crowd of people have begun to gather.
Aunt Pearl begins to sob loudly, and covers her face with her hands.
My mother is shaking with rage. The driver of the car gets out and calls my mother to come away and leave her to God.
Without a backward glance, my mothers pulls me into the car and begins to sob, covering my face with kisses.
Over the next hours, the story unfolds.
She had been given the opportunity to go abroad and being a single mother with no options available, she had had to go, even though she hated the thought of leaving me behind. She used to lie in her bed at night and cry, missing me and wondering if I remembered her. She religiously sent £100 a month to Aunt Pearl who told her how happy I was and how well I was doing in school.
She had planned this trip as a surprise, to see me and to thank her dear friend Aunt Pearl who was doing such a wonderful job of looking after me, while she was making a better life for us in London.
Things will be different she promises, I am coming back to London with her to live, we will never be parted again, no matter what….She holds me close and I inhale her wonderful smell, she smells like oranges, nutmeg and mint all mixed….She sings to me as she used to….I close my eyes, I am in heaven……..


JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-07-24 05:25:00
Mexico, Latin & South AmericaYardies at Home and a Farrin (part16)
This is probably another Gill question, butttt.....does anyone know the procedure for an overseas student to begin studying here?
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-07-23 06:35:00
Mexico, Latin & South AmericaYardies at Home and a Farrin (part16)
QUOTE (dancehallquana @ Jul 22 2009, 03:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
all this wedding talk is making me take another trip to sungold's website.. hey, anybody got any other wedding pics from ja cuz i am tired of looking at sungold every mnth LOL.. oh jaenglish got some right?? let me see if i can find her pics..


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JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-07-22 18:23:00
Mexico, Latin & South AmericaYardies at Home and a Farrin (part16)
QUOTE (Ellsinlove @ Jul 22 2009, 01:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I have another request from the Yardies.....

We need some good Jamaican music to give to our DJ since the wedding will be up in Redding and they just aren't hip to what's hot in current dancehall/reggae music.

Who has the music connections? JaEnglish? Philly?

I have a few songs I'm looking for specifically & then we'd like a whole bunch of danceable stuff. Would anyone with a huge catalog of digital Jamaican music be able to help me? I'll pay $10 a CD for some good stuff burned on disc.

We'll need some Beenie Man (mister LOVES Beenie), Kartel, Voice Mail, Tarrus (She's Royal comes to mind), L.U.S.T. Just As I Am (yes, we still love it) & stuff like that. Anyone have some of those titles? I know it's asking a huge favor but I don't know where better to turn than here and the yardies. And as mentioned I'm willing to pay. luv.gif luv.gif


I have gigs upon gigs of music, pm me for the tunes you want or suggestions!!
JaEnglishGirlFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-07-22 14:35:00