FESTIVITY
On Christmas Eve, we excitedly took a trip to the shopping district. The roads are packed with shoppers and hawkers. There were vendors on both sides of the street making it difficult to walk on the pavement. Firecrackers going off Bang!Bang! ,whistles and horns blaring in the esthetic Christmas air. They are tons of toys, and lots of food for sale.
Of course, one cannot leave out the masquerade dancers accompanied by flute players and drummers making merry music. Joining them is the scary Mad Bull with his horns and fearsome face. Then there is the Granny Long Lady on stilts with her face painted white. “Man it is 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 were steel pan players 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
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