Yardies, at home and a farrin' (Part 6)

[Yaads 0]

UNU COME CLOSEEEEEE...

GUESS WHO BAX MI TODAY...just tek a good GUESS. Mi naw tell unu yet...unu afi guess

GUESS WHO BAX MI

We need some clues cause mi nah have a clue

[nannygirl82 0]

Lawney....ok there are a whole bunch of them around 4th street one is called D & H West Indian...so good the festival is to die for....just thinking of it is making me hungry....

the one outside the city is called D & H Jamaican Cuisine it is in Newark...you have to turn onto Route 4 and go past all these industry buildings and past Christiana Hospital and it will be on the right side past a sub shop...

the groccery store there in one on route 2 call Gigante and they sell a lot of west indies things and fresh fish...

the other store...i never went into it but went past it is on Concord Ave called A and J Caribbean Market here is the website http://www.geocities.com/ajcaribbeanmarket/

the festival happens in august and is called Bob Marley People's Fest in Wilmington, DE

[Forever Young 1]

I understand the spoken word and can speak a lot of it back; but can't read it properly for the life of me.

You do very well too JG! I seriously give ya'll credit...I don't know if I would even bother if i weren't raised around it! My sister (in DC) can't speak it ATALL!!!! As long as you speak VERY slowly she can understand you. I used to go to Jamaica every summer and she used to go to UK...so I guess that's how I really learned it! My parents never really spoke it in the home (except when my Mom was VEX...then WATCH OUT!!!)

Even when Ken gets excited sometimes I have to tell him to SLOW down...now wat yuh saying???

So some serious kudos goes out to everyone that gives it an 'E' for effort in my book!

I told Ken I want us to speak it in the house so our kids learn it. Mi doan want none of dem Yardie cousins fi chat bad bout dem han dem nuh knoa hit!

Gill

[Islandwoman 0]

UNU COME CLOSEEEEEE...

GUESS WHO BAX MI TODAY...just tek a good GUESS. Mi naw tell unu yet...unu afi guess

GUESS WHO BAX MI

We need some clues cause mi nah have a clue

Please say it was an e-mail with a NOA2!!!

[*JG* 2]

Yards, are you a born Jamaican?

Nope not even close

Girl get out of here. I would have never know.

I am whiter than white and started going to JA when I was 16 as a missionary. Went back again as a missionary - made a lot of friends and started going back just to visit. I only went 8 times total but I totally threw myself into the culture and way of life. I never stayed in a hotel - always in a house or with a family in the mountain area of St. Catherine so I was definitely immersed into the JA way of living and had to learn quick.

So you got used to taking cold showers?? That was the only thing I consistently complained about after going in '06. That was the first thing I check when I got the Holiday Inn!!

Gilly when you apply for AP you are eligible to apply because of filing the I-485 (AOS). If you don't file AOS then he technically wouldn't qualify for an AP document. So therefore you have to file them together.

What's AP?

Cold showers never bothered me. It was lack of water sometimes that just about killed me.

Well, girl try taking a bath in RIVER water at 5:30 am in the morning. If you're not AWAKE...you damn sure will be by the time you step into the river.

The day we last left Jamaica, I was bathing in the ocean at 3:30 a.m. It was a little rough!

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

UNU COME CLOSEEEEEE...

GUESS WHO BAX MI TODAY...just tek a good GUESS. Mi naw tell unu yet...unu afi guess

GUESS WHO BAX MI

We need some clues cause mi nah have a clue

Please say it was an e-mail with a NOA2!!!

I WISH!...but them did BAX me again TODAY. So, seet deh...a USCIS BAX mi today!

[Islandwoman 0]

Yards, are you a born Jamaican?

Nope not even close

Girl get out of here. I would have never know.

I am whiter than white and started going to JA when I was 16 as a missionary. Went back again as a missionary - made a lot of friends and started going back just to visit. I only went 8 times total but I totally threw myself into the culture and way of life. I never stayed in a hotel - always in a house or with a family in the mountain area of St. Catherine so I was definitely immersed into the JA way of living and had to learn quick.

So you got used to taking cold showers?? That was the only thing I consistently complained about after going in '06. That was the first thing I check when I got the Holiday Inn!!

I got used to cold showers or even having to take my bath out of the little basin I would fill with water from the tank out back when they shut off the water I even stayed in a place way up in the mountains for a week with no running water and electricity. You went to bed when the sun set cause there wasn't anything to do. To be honest I really loved the way I lived when I was there. Most people think how could you have enjoyed washing all your clothes by hand, walking everywhere you went, squeezing up into the taxis or standing on the buses, always having to have a chaperone after dark cause women don't walk the streets alone in the night...it really was a completely new way of living but I loved it. I really loved it and wish I could go back to it. I miss the sense of community and walking down the streets in the early morning hailing up all the people, I miss the carefree attitude and all the friends, I miss falling asleep listening to the cicadas and crikets and the occasional bashment while the cool night breeze would blow over you. I miss it all very much

Look now I am getting all emotional

I take my kids camping aLOT in the spring/summer and it is the exact same kind of feeling. We camp at Vermont State Parks which have no electricity (except in the bathrooms) and you have to lug your water jug to the spiget. They LOVE it! Jamaica reminds me of that - only warmer.

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

Yards, are you a born Jamaican?

Nope not even close

Girl get out of here. I would have never know.

I am whiter than white and started going to JA when I was 16 as a missionary. Went back again as a missionary - made a lot of friends and started going back just to visit. I only went 8 times total but I totally threw myself into the culture and way of life. I never stayed in a hotel - always in a house or with a family in the mountain area of St. Catherine so I was definitely immersed into the JA way of living and had to learn quick.

So you got used to taking cold showers?? That was the only thing I consistently complained about after going in '06. That was the first thing I check when I got the Holiday Inn!!

Gilly when you apply for AP you are eligible to apply because of filing the I-485 (AOS). If you don't file AOS then he technically wouldn't qualify for an AP document. So therefore you have to file them together.

What's AP?

Cold showers never bothered me. It was lack of water sometimes that just about killed me.

Well, girl try taking a bath in RIVER water at 5:30 am in the morning. If you're not AWAKE...you damn sure will be by the time you step into the river.

The day we last left Jamaica, I was bathing in the ocean at 3:30 a.m. It was a little rough!

ummmmmmmmmmmmm 3:30 in the MORNING! JG -- (let me leave that alone) I'm too NOSEY!

[nannygirl82 0]

I understand the spoken word and can speak a lot of it back; but can't read it properly for the life of me.

You do very well too JG! I seriously give ya'll credit...I don't know if I would even bother if i weren't raised around it! My sister (in DC) can't speak it ATALL!!!! As long as you speak VERY slowly she can understand you. I used to go to Jamaica every summer and she used to go to UK...so I guess that's how I really learned it! My parents never really spoke it in the home (except when my Mom was VEX...then WATCH OUT!!!)

Even when Ken gets excited sometimes I have to tell him to SLOW down...now wat yuh saying???

So some serious kudos goes out to everyone that gives it an 'E' for effort in my book!

I told Ken I want us to speak it in the house so our kids learn it. Mi doan want none of dem Yardie cousins fi chat bad bout dem han dem nuh knoa hit!

Gill

i would agree with that...i want Kayla to know words and things like that...it is part of her and needs to know....

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

I understand the spoken word and can speak a lot of it back; but can't read it properly for the life of me.

You do very well too JG! I seriously give ya'll credit...I don't know if I would even bother if i weren't raised around it! My sister (in DC) can't speak it ATALL!!!! As long as you speak VERY slowly she can understand you. I used to go to Jamaica every summer and she used to go to UK...so I guess that's how I really learned it! My parents never really spoke it in the home (except when my Mom was VEX...then WATCH OUT!!!)

Even when Ken gets excited sometimes I have to tell him to SLOW down...now wat yuh saying???

So some serious kudos goes out to everyone that gives it an 'E' for effort in my book!

I told Ken I want us to speak it in the house so our kids learn it. Mi doan want none of dem Yardie cousins fi chat bad bout dem han dem nuh knoa hit!

Gill

Gill,

You know when I went to school in Jamaica we were not allowed to speak PATWAH. It was forbidden and if they hear you we were spanked. My brother was always gettting a beating and do I dear interfere HELL NO!

[Forever Young 1]

***UPDATE***

Suh Ken jus call mi...he went BACK inna town (MoBay) this morning fi deal wid the license ting...AGAIN!! So he went on Tuesday, Wednesday & today!

So, I faxed his flight confirmation and he showed it to the ooman dat we paid to tek care of this ting! What does she say!!?

Oh, we not gonna ave enough time fi git it!!! She is gonna give him his $$ back (she better dyam well do so!) You HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!

So, I told Ken in the future when I tell you to do something PLEASE DO IT!! Guys, I asked Ken in Feb of 2007 fi tek care of this, then in May, August (we got into a BIG fight...nothing after that) til February!

I have to let it go now...and I will but... it just so dyam frustrating! He could have been here THIS WEEK!!! But we were waiting on the BLINKING drivers license!

So when he gets here we have to start from scratch! When em rass haffi cyatch bus han train inna deh mikkle of summer/winter...I DON'T WANT TO HEAR A WORD!!!!!!

Just ridiculous!

Thanks for letting me vent,

Gill

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

***UPDATE***

Suh Ken jus call mi...he went BACK inna town (MoBay) this morning fi deal wid the license ting...AGAIN!! So he went on Tuesday, Wednesday & today!

So, I faxed his flight confirmation and he showed it to the ooman dat we paid to tek care of this ting! What does she say!!?

Oh, we not gonna ave enough time fi git it!!! She is gonna give him his $$ back (she better dyam well do so!) You HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!

So, I told Ken in the future when I tell you to do something PLEASE DO IT!! Guys, I asked Ken in Feb of 2007 fi tek care of this, then in May, August (we got into a BIG fight...nothing after that) til February!

I have to let it go now...and I will but... it just so dyam frustrating! He could have been here THIS WEEK!!! But we were waiting on the BLINKING drivers license!

So when he gets here we have to start from scratch! When em rass haffi cyatch bus han train inna deh mikkle of summer/winter...I DON'T WANT TO HEAR A WORD!!!!!!

Just ridiculous!

Thanks for letting me vent,

Gill

Gill, lawd...try fi calm down. Let me call my dad, I think my dad's brother was able to pick up his (Jamaican) license and I brought it back with me to the states. Mi a wait fi daddy call mi back.

[Islandwoman 0]

***UPDATE***

Suh Ken jus call mi...he went BACK inna town (MoBay) this morning fi deal wid the license ting...AGAIN!! So he went on Tuesday, Wednesday & today!

So, I faxed his flight confirmation and he showed it to the ooman dat we paid to tek care of this ting! What does she say!!?

Oh, we not gonna ave enough time fi git it!!! She is gonna give him his $$ back (she better dyam well do so!) You HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!

So, I told Ken in the future when I tell you to do something PLEASE DO IT!! Guys, I asked Ken in Feb of 2007 fi tek care of this, then in May, August (we got into a BIG fight...nothing after that) til February!

I have to let it go now...and I will but... it just so dyam frustrating! He could have been here THIS WEEK!!! But we were waiting on the BLINKING drivers license!

So when he gets here we have to start from scratch! When em rass haffi cyatch bus han train inna deh mikkle of summer/winter...I DON'T WANT TO HEAR A WORD!!!!!!

Just ridiculous!

Thanks for letting me vent,

Gill

So sorry to hear that Gill! Bet he learned his lesson though - ALWAYS LISTEN TO THE WOMAN!!!!!

BTW - Anthony is getting the NY DMV driver's manual along with his birthday card next month.

[Forever Young 1]

***UPDATE***

Suh Ken jus call mi...he went BACK inna town (MoBay) this morning fi deal wid the license ting...AGAIN!! So he went on Tuesday, Wednesday & today!

So, I faxed his flight confirmation and he showed it to the ooman dat we paid to tek care of this ting! What does she say!!?

Oh, we not gonna ave enough time fi git it!!! She is gonna give him his $$ back (she better dyam well do so!) You HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!

So, I told Ken in the future when I tell you to do something PLEASE DO IT!! Guys, I asked Ken in Feb of 2007 fi tek care of this, then in May, August (we got into a BIG fight...nothing after that) til February!

I have to let it go now...and I will but... it just so dyam frustrating! He could have been here THIS WEEK!!! But we were waiting on the BLINKING drivers license!

So when he gets here we have to start from scratch! When em rass haffi cyatch bus han train inna deh mikkle of summer/winter...I DON'T WANT TO HEAR A WORD!!!!!!

Just ridiculous!

Thanks for letting me vent,

Gill

So sorry to hear that Gill! Bet he learned his lesson though - ALWAYS LISTEN TO THE WOMAN!!!!!

BTW - Anthony is getting the NY DMV driver's manual along with his birthday card next month.

That's right Isles!!!! :lol:

***UPDATE***

Suh Ken jus call mi...he went BACK inna town (MoBay) this morning fi deal wid the license ting...AGAIN!! So he went on Tuesday, Wednesday & today!

So, I faxed his flight confirmation and he showed it to the ooman dat we paid to tek care of this ting! What does she say!!?

Oh, we not gonna ave enough time fi git it!!! She is gonna give him his $$ back (she better dyam well do so!) You HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!

So, I told Ken in the future when I tell you to do something PLEASE DO IT!! Guys, I asked Ken in Feb of 2007 fi tek care of this, then in May, August (we got into a BIG fight...nothing after that) til February!

I have to let it go now...and I will but... it just so dyam frustrating! He could have been here THIS WEEK!!! But we were waiting on the BLINKING drivers license!

So when he gets here we have to start from scratch! When em rass haffi cyatch bus han train inna deh mikkle of summer/winter...I DON'T WANT TO HEAR A WORD!!!!!!

Just ridiculous!

Thanks for letting me vent,

Gill

Gill, lawd...try fi calm down. Let me call my dad, I think my dad's brother was able to pick up his (Jamaican) license and I brought it back with me to the states. Mi a wait fi daddy call mi back.

Thanks Lawny...at this point I just think this ooman was giving him the dyam run around...but trust me anyhow she nuh ave em $$ pon Tuesday mi a guh blow deh lid offa har fraud rass!

Bless,

Gill

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

Lawney....ok there are a whole bunch of them around 4th street one is called D & H West Indian...so good the festival is to die for....just thinking of it is making me hungry....

the one outside the city is called D & H Jamaican Cuisine it is in Newark...you have to turn onto Route 4 and go past all these industry buildings and past Christiana Hospital and it will be on the right side past a sub shop...

the groccery store there in one on route 2 call Gigante and they sell a lot of west indies things and fresh fish...

the other store...i never went into it but went past it is on Concord Ave called A and J Caribbean Market here is the website http://www.geocities.com/ajcaribbeanmarket/

the festival happens in august and is called Bob Marley People's Fest in Wilmington, DE

Thanks Nanny. Her husband is no use...poor thing. I'll cut and past this info for her. I told her if she can't find anything she want, she can always hop on 95N and go to New York or Jersey.