Hey, Kevon ( from BCC) invited Caroline and I for a dinner at his house. He called us around noon to pick us up around 2:30 pm....... hummmmmm dinner? Indeed,
it was a misunderstanding, it was a lunch, he came around 3 pm, we had
some stops on our way, we ate around 4 pm which is the bajan sunday
lunch time actually, we learned something today !!
And Kevon has a kind of small farm in his back yard !!!
This is Ducky, he lives there, but won't never be eaten, he stays we the chicken, friendly, he is more like a pet, i like him
Kevon told Caroline he had a pig of the size of his living room table.... She didn't believe him.... but it was true !!!
Crepe party, 19 march 2011 at Caroline's house Make bajan people discover the french crepes. Everyone brings ingredients to put in the crepes
For example: sausages, cut by Maria and Melissa
Girls are working in the kitchen and Kevon is playing on his Iphone
First try by Alicia
Well, i'm glad to see I'm not the only one to pick in the food while I'm cooking instead of waiting for the dinner time
Second try by Rohan
What happens? is it a crepe or a donut?
Simbah is more successful ( her mother is from Luxembourg)
CAUTION - ATTENTION If you're french you may have a heart looking at this following picture
For Kevon a crepe ( pronounced "Kwipee" by him) is not tasty and big enough... he put it between 2 slices of bread.....
When the pan is occupied by a crepe maker, the other participants wait, and take pictures of themselves
2 am. My turn
Guess what i put inside?????
Banana and nutella !!!!
Ok the stove had a problem, so cooking a crepe took around 20 minutes for each that's why mine came so late. But some of us were starmed, so brave guys went to buy sliced bread to make sandwiches.
When the pan is occupied by a crepe maker, the other participants wait, and dance
Flip !!!
I did the first one but of course, nobody took a picture of my exploit. Good job Jarad
When we are really starved, we can eat a fork of grated cheese, yes, it happens
Shawn and Melissa are great dancers
"Oh sorry blog visitors, I have to leave the camera, i have to dance tooooo !!!
Do I see feet on the front of this picture?
No, I'm not hot, at all.
Bread-crepe = ZZZZzzzzzzzzzz
I was having nutella on bread, which is totally normal at 4:30 am, isn't it? When I heard Titanic song playing !!! Do you understand better this picture?
We can feel the end of the night.... 6 am.... couch a nutella fight happened..... some wariors gave up...
UWI, University of West Indies has its own Carnival on the 26th of March 2011 I chose to jump with this band:
And with the Wotless Costume
"Wotless" meaning to be free to enjoy, without any reponsabilities... from this song: (clic on the "Play" symbol to listen to the music)
Caroline, Melissa, ( you should know them now) and I, ready to jump !!!
Melissa is seeing us like in a videogame:
Ok, the shuttle that was supposed to take us from the campus to the departure of the parade actually doesn't exist, so we had to find another solution to get there. We climbed a truck carrying the drinks, it was very dangerous, sitting on the alcohol bottles, hardly held, holding each other... we met police officers, they didn't say anything.
This part should be seen only by adults You remember when i mentioned the way people dance at Reggae Lounge on fridays night? it was the same, but in the day.
This is actually the main part of this Carnival, i don't know yet about Crop Over ( Official carnival of Barbados in August ), so im just talking about this one and what I saw and lived. For me it was like repetitive agressions from the boys. To me it is like simulating sexual act, in the street, with clothe and extremely violently.
Many girls are ok with that, and i guess they even practice at home to excercise their suppleness to do it.
I had to avoid about 50 consecutive "attacks from behind". I don't think they would have tried to do these things with me, but still, I was there to enjoy the event with my 2 girl friends. Which was apparently inconceivable for them. I got a lot of "NO ?? HELLO you are in Barbados !!". So in Barbados girls can not have fun by themselves?
Crazy enough, a line started behind me, it was like a game, who would stay the longest before being pushed away by the angry girl?
I was told over and over: " this is their culture ".
But it is totally false !!!! All the bajan people i told this story had the same reaction : " it is disgusting and disrespectful, personnaly i don't do that, i understand it annoyed you".
So what? I know only exceptional bajan people? everyone in Barbados do that except them? or they lied to me? they love it as well they just don't want to admit it in front of me?
I think that this Carnival is the event where young people who like behaving like this go, and enjoy. I didn't know. I did not enjoy this day at all. But, I wanted to experience it by myself because I want to know everything about Barbados. Yes, now I know. I will not go again next year.
