On Christmas Eve, we excitedly take a trip to the shopping
district. The roads were packed with
shoppers and hawkers. There were vendors
on both sides of the street making it difficult to walk on the pavement. Firecrackers went off “Bang! Bang!” Whistles
and horns blaring in the aesthetic Christmas air. They were tons of toys and
lots of food for sale.
Of course,
one cannot leave out the masquerade dancers they were fun. Accompanied by flute players and drummers
making merry music. Joining them was the scary “Mad Bull with his horns and
fearsome face. Then there was the Granny
long lady on stilts with her face painted white. “Man it’s fun.” The masquerade dancers and the flouncing musicians
singing and chanting {Christmas comes but once a year so drinks your rum and
tumble down, “Bato, Bato”! Christmas
comes but once a year so flounce if you flouncing “Bato, Bato”! Christmas comes but once a year so wine and
tumble down on the ground “Bato, Bato”!}
Up the road,
there steel pan players were beating out sweet carols at a bouncy calypso beat.
In addition, girls and boys, women and men dancing up a storm to the rhythm of
Christmas calypso music.
Oh! Boy I
love this Christmas season.
I remember Christmas.
Remember Christmas can be purchased in eBook format from
Lulu.com and Barnes and Noble.com and in iBookstore. Attached link to Lulu.com, and saatchiart.com,and Spoken Black Girl,
Rowana’s blog.
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