Yardies, at home and a farrin'

[Elizabethnhenry 0]

I mean it's not like they can deny you, you're walking up in their with your big belly

:lol:

My thoughts exactly!!!

Good Luck Julie and Michael!!!

I told him..."What ya think, I look up and tell God, give me a problem today, God, cuz I think I need one???"...

Jill, that's funny!

Come to think of it though....we DO ask for "problems" or euphemistically (is that a word?) "tests". I have learned not to ask God for patience - because how do you get patience?? From some working your last nerve over and over. You learn it waiting in line for ages. You learn it from showing your assitant the same task over and over and over. I remember my sister praying for a raise. And two days letter her boss called her and said I need you to work four hours OT every night and every Saturday for the next four months. My sis was like but she got all the cash she needed to build her deck, she just had to work for it.

Moral of my story: Be careful what you wish/pray for.

[tenika 0]

Good morning

Tomorrow is Julie & Michael (Sbys) AOS interview. Please everyone, send them your best wishes for a speedy and easy interview.

Good Morning Everyone

All the best on your interview Julie & Michael, relax yourself, take some deep breaths, you guys will do fine. And when you leave you will leave the interview rejoicing and celebrating.

Wedding plans coming along, Thanks guys for your advice, I will have some of my church brethren cooking, so far the menu looks like this

Jerk Pork

Curry Chicken

Specialy Chicken

Spanish rice

White Rice

Potato Salad

fresh Salad

Rolls

Punch

I have someone making a 3 tier wedding cake? How does the menu sound, and I missing anything. I have more people willing to cook, or does this look good enough? $$ is short, My mom blasted me for planning a wedding in a short time. My cousin is getting married next month she has been planning for a year, and spent over $20,0000 .. pssssttt. they cant expect me to compete with that she is older makes more $. and got a fiance that makes good $. plus she lives in Atlanta where everything is dirt cheap compared to NY

[thndrdancr 0]

Good Mornin to all.

Good luck Julie and Michael on the interview.

Elizabeth, I suppose I might have been asking for it, I pray all the time that he keeps us safe in that car and that he protects us from accidents. Never said a THING bout it breakin down....

Like I said, I didnt consider it that big a thing, altho I think its major work, the clutch went out. I dont even know how we made it back to the trailer, we drove like 200 miles that day and again the day before, so the fact we made it back without being stranded on the road was a miracle in and of itself. After it got there, poof, nothin! So...someone was watchin over us for sure.

[Elizabethnhenry 0]

Good morning

Tomorrow is Julie & Michael (Sbys) AOS interview. Please everyone, send them your best wishes for a speedy and easy interview.

Good Morning Everyone

All the best on your interview Julie & Michael, relax yourself, take some deep breaths, you guys will do fine. And when you leave you will leave the interview rejoicing and celebrating.

Wedding plans coming along, Thanks guys for your advice, I will have some of my church brethren cooking, so far the menu looks like this

Jerk Pork

Curry Chicken

Specialy Chicken

Spanish rice

White Rice

Potato Salad

fresh Salad

Rolls

Punch

I have someone making a 3 tier wedding cake? How does the menu sound, and I missing anything. I have more people willing to cook, or does this look good enough? $$ is short, My mom blasted me for planning a wedding in a short time. My cousin is getting married next month she has been planning for a year, and spent over $20,0000 .. pssssttt. they cant expect me to compete with that she is older makes more $. and got a fiance that makes good $. plus she lives in Atlanta where everything is dirt cheap compared to NY

Tenika,

Menu Sounds good! Just a suggestion - I think you should add some appetizers so they can munch while waiting for dinner to be served....people tend to get cranky. You can buy the super packs of cocktail beef or veggie patties. I remember my mom buying a box of 100 for a christening. They are tiny beef patties but same as regular JA patties. COSTCO also sells these little baby spinach pies - a tiny tiny quiche. Again I think 100 per box. Probably $25 a box. They taste really good. There are not a lot of JA appetizers - only we greedy Guyanese and Trinis have a lot of local appetizers in our menu.

I don't know your guests but there is bound to be a vegetarian in the mix so maybe a small vegetarian entree???

You are otherwise cooking with gas!!

[Minfay 0]

I will have some of my church brethren cooking, so far the menu looks like this

Sounds yummy......now I'm really hungry Personally, I think it is great that everyone is doing the cooking -- that way it will all be made with love. That's really special and not everyone can do that. You are a very lucky lady

[Sbys 0]

Good morning

Tomorrow is Julie & Michael (Sbys) AOS interview. Please everyone, send them your best wishes for a speedy and easy interview.

Thanks Mindy And Hi everyone - I've been around, but lurking lately. Too tired/lazy to post anything. We're ready for tomorrow so hopefully all goes well.

Good morning

Tomorrow is Julie & Michael (Sbys) AOS interview. Please everyone, send them your best wishes for a speedy and easy interview.

Good luck Julie and Michael You both will be in my prayers. I mean it's not like they can deny you, you're walking up in their with your big belly

Good morning everyone

And it is getting big! It popped out so much over the past couple weeks - the baby must be getting ready for the interview too

Thanks for your well wishes Jill, EH, and Tenika. By the way Tenika - your menu sounds great. Can I copy it for my wedding?!

[rhondapayter 0]

Perhaps, its becuz its something that he FEELS like he SHOULD be the man about, and just doesnt know how to deal with things in this country like he would back home, and it makes him feel helpless and emasculated. Yea, that must be it....

Seriously, this is very true They're not used to feeling "helpless" and not knowing where everything is, how to get there, what to do, etc.. I know it was really hard for Tony having to depend on me for everything when he first got here. We got him a bicycle and that seemed to help some. At least he could go up to the store or whatever without having to ask me to drive him there Try to be patient and understand where he's coming from. I know this is much easier said than done. Things will get better when he can start working. That's another huge blow to a man's self esteem - to feel like they can't contribute.

[Jonesie 1]

Morning

Hey Woogie

Julie and Michael good luck

[rhondapayter 0]

Good morning

Tomorrow is Julie & Michael (Sbys) AOS interview. Please everyone, send them your best wishes for a speedy and easy interview.

Good luck Julie and Michael You both will be in my prayers. I mean it's not like they can deny you, you're walking up in their with your big belly

Good morning everyone

Yes, good luck Julie & Michael. The baby will just add to the evidence of ongoing relationship Jackie was pregnant when her and Craig went for their interview. It was a breeze for them. She wasn't too far along at the time, but she purposely wore a maternity shirt that really emphasized her growing belly

[Shemmy 4]

Good afternoon family.

Good luck Michael and Julie

[Minfay 0]

she purposely wore a maternity shirt that really emphasized her growing belly

My belly is just growing... from all that damn Jamaican food -- I should just plaster the dumplings to my A@*and be done with it....

We got him a bicycle and that seemed to help some. At least he could go up to the store or whatever without having to ask me to drive him there Try to be patient and understand where he's coming from. I know this is much easier said than done. Things will get better when he can start working. That's another huge blow to a man's self esteem - to feel like they can't contribute.

Roy and I were just talking about this. Gotta tell you, the bike was the best investment we ever made. He's mobile so that helped us tremendously.

So did him going to school. He is now in the summer semester and SOOOOOO excited because he's taking a computer class -- it's only and hour on Monday & Wednesday but it is something -- something he would NEVER be able to do in Jamaica.

[Elizabethnhenry 0]

Potluck at GED class.

I know Roy had one. Anyone else? Today for the 2nd time Henry's class is having a potluck.

He said and I quote:

"me nah how dem "bredren" can eat all ova and from anybody wah gih dem a plate. Ah why americans so eaty eaty? No man, me not in dat. Me nah eat eat all 'bout the place. Me ah tell dem seh me a vegetarian and bring me likkle morsel meself!"

DWBCL!!! So, unuh Yankees - why unuh so "eaty eaty"???

Translation:

unuh = you all; y'all I guess eaty eaty means greedy. I have some british friends who said the same thing at american movie theatres. "What is up with all the snacks?? Do you people EVER stop eating??? Why can't you watch a movie and just....watch a movie?!!"

Edited June 7, 2006 by Elizabethnhenry

[Jonesie 1]

Potluck at GED class.

I know Roy had one. Anyone else? Today for the 2nd time Henry's class is having a potluck.

He said and I quote:

"me nah how dem "bredren" can eat all ova and from anybody wah gih dem a plate. Ah why americans so eaty eaty? No man, me not in dat. Me nah eat eat all 'bout the place. Me ah tell dem seh me a vegetarian and bring me likkle morsel meself!"

D hasn't had potluck yet, but he don't eat after other people's cooking cause not everyone is clean.

:lol: @ eaty eaty

D says "dem too crave! luv fi nyam eeeehhh?"

Hey Jojo - how are you?

[tenika 0]

Good morning

Tomorrow is Julie & Michael (Sbys) AOS interview. Please everyone, send them your best wishes for a speedy and easy interview.

Good Morning Everyone

All the best on your interview Julie & Michael, relax yourself, take some deep breaths, you guys will do fine. And when you leave you will leave the interview rejoicing and celebrating.

Wedding plans coming along, Thanks guys for your advice, I will have some of my church brethren cooking, so far the menu looks like this

Jerk Pork

Curry Chicken

Specialy Chicken

Spanish rice

White Rice

Potato Salad

fresh Salad

Rolls

Punch

I have someone making a 3 tier wedding cake? How does the menu sound, and I missing anything. I have more people willing to cook, or does this look good enough? $$ is short, My mom blasted me for planning a wedding in a short time. My cousin is getting married next month she has been planning for a year, and spent over $20,0000 .. pssssttt. they cant expect me to compete with that she is older makes more $. and got a fiance that makes good $. plus she lives in Atlanta where everything is dirt cheap compared to NY

Tenika,

Menu Sounds good! Just a suggestion - I think you should add some appetizers so they can munch while waiting for dinner to be served....people tend to get cranky. You can buy the super packs of cocktail beef or veggie patties. I remember my mom buying a box of 100 for a christening. They are tiny beef patties but same as regular JA patties. COSTCO also sells these little baby spinach pies - a tiny tiny quiche. Again I think 100 per box. Probably $25 a box. They taste really good. There are not a lot of JA appetizers - only we greedy Guyanese and Trinis have a lot of local appetizers in our menu.

I don't know your guests but there is bound to be a vegetarian in the mix so maybe a small vegetarian entree???

You are otherwise cooking with gas!!

Thanks for the input, you are right, I will put audorives on the menu..thanks

DWBCL!!! So, unuh Yankees - why unuh so "eaty eaty"???

yeah... we are kindah greedy

[thndrdancr 0]

Potluck at GED class.

I know Roy had one. Anyone else? Today for the 2nd time Henry's class is having a potluck.

He said and I quote:

"me nah how dem "bredren" can eat all ova and from anybody wah gih dem a plate. Ah why americans so eaty eaty? No man, me not in dat. Me nah eat eat all 'bout the place. Me ah tell dem seh me a vegetarian and bring me likkle morsel meself!"

DWBCL!!! So, unuh Yankees - why unuh so "eaty eaty"???

Translation:

unuh = you all; y'all I guess eaty eaty means greedy. I have some british friends who said the same thing at american movie theatres. "What is up with all the snacks?? Do you people EVER stop eating??? Why can't you watch a movie and just....watch a movie?!!"

Wow, I WISH he would have something like a potluck. His class everyone comes and goes and not the same peeps there at all every day and no one even introduced themselves or anything and they come and go at all hours. That is the social studies/science/reading/economics/history class on Mon and Wed that I told you the teachers are clueless and are not there half the time. He just goes in and sits and never speaks to anyone, its kinda sad. He even had one of the teachers give him a test today, and he answered deliberately wrong on one of the questions just to see if she knew her business, and she said...Yea, thats right! :dumbfounded look:

Now on the other hand, his MATH class teacher, I am real impressed by. I JUST found out yesterday that SHE teaches the other class (another reading/etc) in the afternoon. Lake really learns under her, she told me he has went up 2 1/2 grade levels in math in just one month! WHY oh WHY couldnt I have found out she does a class in the afternoon before this?. I called and asked 3 times if there was an afternoon class so he could attend full time for BOTH classes instead of only two days a week, and they told me that stupid morning one was the only one with the idiot teachers.... :really ticked off face: He could have gone 3 days a week and learned 3 times as much under her. I am NOT IMPRESSED with our local college provided GED classes for SURE!

I KNOW I had read they had classes provided at all times, so if you worked you could still go, but every time I asked bout it, I got the runaround. They have class 4 days a week, and they TOLD me they only had them in the morning, well the math clashed with the reading one, so we had him attending part time, two days for one and two for the other, so he was really only geting half the benefit. Thats why the teacher was so impressed with his progress, he has done better than anyone else in the class and THEY are attending 4 days a week! Grrrrrrr!

They are out for a month and half now for summer break.

Edited June 7, 2006 by thndrdancr