I will finally get to see her grave since I could not go home for the funeral. I am not sure how I will react to that yet…but it is something I need to do.

So I will be off to sunny St. Lucia for about a month with nothing to do all day. I will continue to prewrite some posts for that time so the blog will be updated on the regular Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule, with little tidbits thrown in on the other days.

I will be looking for a few guest posts as well so get those thinking caps on.

You can use the contact page to send me info about the guest post you want to send in.

One benefit of going home is that my electricity bill (high during the Texas summers) will be lower since I will not be at home for a whole month. Yippee!!!!

I promise the following:

* I will have fun

* I will sleep late

* I will eat TONS of fruits

* I will NOT get a sunburn

* I will take pictures

* I will stay within my budget (easy to do since I will be operating on a cash only basis when I go home. International fees would KILL my credit cards!!!!)

Other than that….it is all up for grabs.

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Okay now why did I start thinking about this? Now I am craving a beach lime. I can just see myself taking some baked macaroni and red beans and fried fish and lime squash and rounding up some people and going to the beach.

We would spend the whole day and come back sunburned, salty and slightly seasick. Now that I can ride a bike (yes I just learned recently!) I could ride along the causeway and smell that fresh sea air and feel the cool sea breeze blowing against my skin.

Wish list:

1. ticket to go to St. Lucia to spend Christmas on the beach
2. a bike so I can ride along the causeway
3. enough money to enjoy a great, long overdue vacation

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I want some real (read:caribbean) fruit cake and eggnogg.

Of course since the tickets home now cost around $600.00 I would not be saving any money (which is the whole point of this).

Our secretary just bought me some coffee from starbucks (hey I am not about to dish out $3.00 for one cup of coffee…even though it tastes heavenly).

On the point of going home….I always use Orbitz to search for flights because they are so easy to use. You can also find better deals using Orbitz than using the airline sites and you can compare different airlines.

I would love to be able to go home this Christmas and get away from the cold but that is not possible (unless I win the lottery!) so I guess I will just have to drink lots of tea and wear layers.

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Lush green valley and pretty mountain line.

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Well? What do you think? I have not followed the news in a LONG, LONG time and then I come on and this is what I see. I really have to pay more attention to what is going on.

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The diving around Anse Chastanet was beautiful, loads of colours and loads of life. I really, really liked it. Their house reef was excellent. We didn’t see any turtles or sharks, but it was still great in my view.

This author just a made a record of travels all around the Caribbean and I thought it would be a good entry in my search for mentions of St. Lucia.

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St. Lucia is moving on and definitely experiencing a construction boom. Everyone is busy trying to get in on the special incentives offered to persons seeking to provide accommodation for the CWC 2007 and beyond.

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1. you go to ‘square’; when it was actually the beach, Sans Souci or Cul-de-Sac
2. a fight begins with a “gaujet”
3. you refer to public mass transportation as “takin transport”
4. you dress up “soul” to go out, and you end up only as far as the entrance to the fete or the club
5. you ever bathe with Lifebuoy (the action soap)
6. you know tear gas as “akwimotion”
7. a girl whose name is unknown is referred to as “aye”, “pal”, or, “aye Psst”
8. you ever “make biss”
9. you dislike a fella you call him a ‘bulla’
10. you know all toothpaste as Colgate, and aspirin as Phensic
11. you ever had to rush for a bus to get to or from school, on a regular basis
12. something that was really good used to be “syax!!”
13. you are related to a Charles or Joseph
14. you are related to somebody on the forward list, for that matter
15. you know how to “dig horrors”
16. you know a machete as a cutlass and have one at your home
17. you thought air-conditioning was only for offices and banks
18. you have shown disapproval by ‘cutting eyes’ (probably for that guy who knows you as ‘aye psst’)
19. you’ve been to Libo, Brown, or Steve’s for a fade
20. you go to fete for mun or womun and expect a DJ, dancing and drinks (if you lucky); but you go to a party primarily for food (even if it is cake and juice). If you get any of these in ‘a bun dance” then you say de party “score”
21. you have bought sugar, flour and salt in no-name-brand transparent plastic bags
22. for the longest while you thought the word was actually “lylon” bags and “flims”
23. you have known white sugar to be more expensive than brown sugar
24. you refer to all dish washing liquids as SQUEEZY, all soap powder as BREEZE and all nail polish as CUTEX
25. the first word heard at an exciting event is”hee-salop”!!!
26. you refer to adults as “duh lady” and “duh mister”
27. you know what the word “GASA” means and you use it frequently
28. you shorten words at your convenience. e.g desperate ? DES
29. you know what a “BOOKIE” is and you use it frequently
30. you dress and attend parties/fetes/weddings you weren’t invited to
31. sometimes you doh even dress up to go to the wedding, you just sit down in the church with your pink/green curlers in your hair
32. some one of lesser intelligence is referred to as a “goh goh”, “moo moo” or “dek dek”
33. sucking your teeth is called “choopsing”
34. everyone in your family has their own catapult and guards it fiercely
35. you are offended when someone tells you you shop at S&S or Hobie
36. you have redefined the word ‘ ignorant’
37. you wake up with scratches or hairloss and say maji nwen take you
38. you have 6 or 7 mongrels living under your house which you do not feed and have never bathed
39. you watch your back for jombies
40. you went through several pairs of “catapalls” from Bata
41. you know what kabann is and have slept on it
42. you have a nenen or pawen
43. you used to wear plastic shoes called “jarees”
44. you refer to a step father as bope and the other woman as jabal
45. you refer to all sport utility vehicles as “a jeep”
46. you ‘base your mind’ on something and nothing can change it
47. you refer to a girl you dislike as a skettel, jamet or rat
48. you refer to a wedgie as “a target”
49. pants that are too short or tight are called “chichi booweh”
50. you call an audio system a “set”
51. the way you walk is called a “bump”
52. your initial reaction to someone falling is “cheweh” and prepare to say “heesalop”
53. the school bully threatens to “pass a plok” on you
54. when there is a fight, everyone runs to see “zafe moun”
55. a slap behind the head is a “kallot”
56. your sentences frequently include “ay ay”, “uh”, “ah” or end with eh” or “ee”
57. you use “does” in your sentences, e.g. “I does do dat”, “He does go der ee”
58. you use a hairpin to clean your ears
59. you are in “bones” with someone else and you have “baka” that can help you
60. you refer to all cleansing agents as CLOROX
61. you refer to a group of people as “you all”or “an dem”
62. you ever knew someone who was “simeh-ing gwen”
63. you know people who refer to an internal body pain as “gas”or a “wind” or when you pass gas you “fat dere”
64. you know that fried chicken from Sam’s chicken van tasting good but u eh want nobody to know u does buy it.
65. your idea of going out is going to the Lime, or Triangle, then finally ending up at Indies.
66. you know what “Vantucky” is
67. you refer to community college as “A-level”
68. your chest hurting an you say you must be have “bless”
69. you eat fruits ” in sauce” (Golden Apple-in-sauce, mango-in-sauce”)
70. you know somebody who was a “Police Zodi”

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Did you wear Jarry and socks to go to school?

What about putting rubber bands to hold your socks up just below your knees?

Remember when all you had wash on a weekend were your panties and ribbons…..your mother would wash the socks because you would dirty them so bad by playing without your shoes.

Did you have to carry water in a paint bucket (skillit)?

Remember when we used to rush home on an afternoon because the following would be waiting for us
-Bread and condensed milk
-Bread and oil or cooking butter
-Bread and coconut
-Farine and Klim

About the klim…….did you ever try to steal klim and it stuck to your pallet and made you chock (TOOFAY)

Remember all your mother could afford for lunch was an Aman Rock Cake and a red JU-C

Remember…….

1. Going to buy bread and breaking off the tot-tots

2. going to buy saltfish and breaking little bits off the edges

Did your father ever beat you because they found a sweetie wrapper in you pocket with the words “I love you” or “Kiss me” and they would not believe that you put it there yourself?

I don’t know about you but I only had the following at Christmas

Ham

Pan bread to make sang-gwage (please pronounce it as you see it, it is not a typo)

Malt

A whole JU-C for yourself and the bottle would would knock your front teeth

And this is what my shopping list would look like when they sent me to “make message”

1/4 bottle oil

1/4 lb saltfish

2 oz keg butter

2 oz oleo butter

1/2 lc macaronni

1 lb salt

1 lb brown sugar (white sugar was for rich people)

2 oz banana essence (the really good type – not the nonsense they selling now)

2 oz white vaseline

2 oz yellow vaseline

Remember the scales they use for weighing and the paper they used to wrap up the products.

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