My best Jamaican childhood memories

by Karen Jackson
(Bridgeport, Connecticut,USA)

My best child hood memories are from living in Jamaica!

• The joy of feeling proud to wear pink and blue uniform.
  
  
• The teachers and the principal cared with discipline.
  
  
• My helper taking me to beach - eating sugar on a daily basis.
  
  
• Taking the train to May Pen, the fun of looking out the window – watching the higglers going on and off the train.
  
  
• The delicious bammy and peppered fish.
  
  
• Tamarind in may pen along with jackass corn (pastry).
  
  
• Going to YS falls, and bluefields beach on weekends.
  
  
• The love displayed by other parents, keeping an eye on each others children while keeping care and disciplined in place.
  
  
• Buying fried fish, yam and bammy on the roadside.
  
  
• Driving to Kingston using the north side of the island and getting the excitement of finding flat bridge not flooded and seeing the bauxite pit - knowing if the car goes in no one is coming out.
  
  
  My parents kept of lot of what Jamaica really is from me as child so it became a shock as an adult. There were bad memories also but all the fun stuff far outweighs them and provides the joy I feel when I think about my childhood in Jamaica.
  
  

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