Parties

Mother’s Day is celebrated in 40 countries around the world. In every country, this day is celebrated solely for the purpose of honoring and giving appreciation to their mothers. However, it is surprisingly celebrated differently in most of these countries. […]

More often than not, the day starts with excitement and smiles, but ends in blurred memories and one gigantic headache. Why yes, I am describing the 21st birthday of the average, American young adult. For young men and women in […]

My head feels as if there is an elephant tap dancing on it. I’m tired. The room is dark and I can hear the rain outside my window. I groan and head to the shower. We sit around wondering what […]

The United States celebrates its independence from Britain every year on July 4th.  To celebrate with all American TCKs (is that even a proper characterization?  Can one be a TCK and actually identify with one country?  #oxymoron).  Well, for those […]

An infuriating buzzing noise dragged me out of my deep sleep. So irritating. I cracked my eyes open wearily. What could it be? Straining my ears but still trying to hang on to the sweet surrender of sleep, I lift […]

“Come on, shake your body baby, do the conga I know you can’t control yourself any longer Come on, shake your body baby, do the conga” those are the famous Conga song lyrics of Salsa and Pop star Gloria Maria […]

As they say in Trini, it’s ” Fantastic Friday,” the Friday before the hype of Carnival. Over the past few days, some friends from abroad arrived and the excitement has been building. We spent the previous day collecting costumes and […]

As I sat down on a Saturday afternoon looking at all the events happening throughout the Carnival season, I got a message from a friend; “Are you going Trini Lime* tomorrow?” This was the first I was heard of it […]