If you have a real Jamaican store and you want me to list it on this blog, just send a link to ajagssolutions@gmail.com, and I will post your add here on this blog.
Friday
Jamaican Bling
When I was in Jamaica there was a song on the TV about buying Jamaican and supporting Jamaica. It seems more people in foreign countries support this idea more than the locals do. The people in Jamaica seem to want to buy everything imported and all the things that made locally is scoffed at.
If you have a real Jamaican store and you want me to list it on this blog, just send a link to ajagssolutions@gmail.com, and I will post your add here on this blog.
If you have a real Jamaican store and you want me to list it on this blog, just send a link to ajagssolutions@gmail.com, and I will post your add here on this blog.
Wednesday
Jamaican Halloween - jonkanoo
Although Jamaicans do not typically celebrate Halloween, we have a celebration that is close to it. Ironically it is usually around Christmas time when people put on costumes to honor the dead. This is typically referred to as Jonkanoo. See video and images below.
Jamaican Christmas
Christmas was not much of a big thing for me growing up, however I'm sure that it was the nicest time of year, for lots of other people. The only memory I have of Christmas was when I received a bicycle around my 7th birthday (in Jamaica) and I was told that Santa Claus brought it. The very same day, I was told that Santa Claus did not exist.
Talk about conflict in my soul.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
-
Playing cards was one of my favorite pass times during the summer as a child. It was right up there with swinging from the trees a...
-
As a child these were the jokes we shared. Since racism was not a thing in Jamaica, it was quite fine to use these jokes. No one took off... -
Don't know if these prayers are totally Jamaican, but I said them when I was growing up. Especially as the nation loses sight of God...
