Trini 2 De Bone: God Don't Sleep

The above statement keeps coming up in these conversations and stories I am hearing and it's sort of about karma. Like you think that God may be sleeping, but GOD DON'T. So you will have a karmic payback for your bad behavior.

But I must have been very good. Because, as my oldest sister says, "I am too blessed to be stressed." She claims that this comes about from hanging with her (limin' in Trini). Okay. This is entirely possible, because I have been having some magical moments spinning around the country with her.

On Wednesday, I went to her Montessori school and was taken in by the five year olds who were having lunch, but when I sat down with two of them, the other five came over. I asked them if they had had lessons, and they told me that they wrote their names and counted, and read me everything that was on the walls of the schoolroom. A little boy named Kyle came by. I remembered Kyle from last years graduation ceremony; even though he wasn't graduating as he was only four, he was one of the best performers (my sister has them sing, do recitation, act in a play, do traditional Creole dances, and play recorder at the ceremony).

Ms S: Hey Kyle! Good to see you!

Kyle: ...

Other Chirren: Kyle vex becau' he get licks today!

Kyle: (lookin vex in trut') I ent get no licks!

Chirren: (nodding, eyes wide) But he was cryin'!

Kyle: I was cryin', but I ent get no licks!

Chirren: (whispering to me as Kyle walks away) He get licks! He get licks!

Kyle gets disgusted and walks outside.

Then they brought me outside to play with them and ran around as I sat out of the sun under the house with the other adults and the wimpy children and they totally mobbed me over the digital camera. I read them the Berenstein Bears Lose Their Manners and told them the story of Rikki Tikki Tembo.

At one point Daniela pointed out, "De babies cyaan see!" So they all made a space for the three years olds in the front. When I left with my sister to go to the beach in Toco, they waved goodbye and asked me if I was coming back. Tomorrow, I said, tomorrow.