I badly needed to post anyhow but this post was inspired by my favorite on-again off-again neighbor- Chee Chee. Chee Chee wrote a hit calypso last year but was thrown back in jail before he could compete in the finals. His song was about a sookooyah (witch) peepeeing in his yard.
Chee Chee's most famous robbery was one he got away with. He walked into an electronics store in Roseau (the capital), picked up a boombox (circa 1999), turned it on and walked out of the store with the boombox on his shoulder.
Chee Chee was out of prison for Carnival this year and wrote another hit.
Chee Chee performing his new song on the street in Salisbury with a Sensai during Carnival warm-up. I have never again seen him in a shirt with buttons.
Chee Chee performing his new song on the street in Salisbury with a Sensai during Carnival warm-up. I have never again seen him in a shirt with buttons.
After getting into a fight in Salisbury he moved to town for awhile. He moved back this week. He appears to be staying with his aunt directly across the street from me, who has the fanciest house in the area and does not interact with us colonists, and spends the evenings (from about 9 pm to 1 am) screaming jibberish. There's no way to write emails when something this great is happening.
Chee Chee: YOU ALL HATING ME! BUT DIS MY GRANDMOTHERS DAUGHTERS HOUSE! YOU GRUDGING ME! OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! DON"T COME THERE AN CHARGE MY FAMILY! YOU COME RIGHT DERE WITH A CUTLASS! SHES MY MOTHERS MOTHERS DAUGHTER! DOE BE GRUDGING! YOU ALL GRUDGING! RIGHT DEEEEEREEEEEEee!
(Chee Chee picks up a broom with no bristles and begins swinging it martial arts style) You're boss man a rapist! Dat Gangsta Robbery say!
You're modass! (modass is Dominican for Mother's A$$)
You're modass boy! You're family you know! BOY! I warning you! Blood! I warning you!
I must put the love away! I must be hard! I must be brave! I must keep on singing! I forgive you boy!
RAAAAA! AAAAAAAAAAAAH! RAAAAAAAAAA! RAAAAAAAAAA! (at this point his aunt came outside and started yelling at him for volaying (stealing) her broom)
Next time,
You are hilarious :)
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Ryan and I'm serving in Antigua right now actually. A friend of mine and I are flying to Dominica on Friday and have looking to find things to do and/or places to stay... would you have any advice? I know this is very last-minute, but we a trip we had to Guyana just got cancelled because of the whole RedJet debacle and so now we're flying to Dominica instead.
Thanks!
Ryan
jones.3446@gmail.com
Good morning how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favour:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Dominica? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Dominica in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Calle Valencia, 39
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.