by: Lia Thomas
No words could capture the feeling that raced through my body at that moment. The moment when the plane hovered over the lush green mountains of Jamaica. The moment when the ‘love bird’ descended onto the hot asphalt, and bumped its way up to the runway. Continue reading Unforgettable: A native returns home to Jamaica
Monday morning, mommy gets up at around 6am to prepare breakfast for her kids not fully aware of what was larking on at the steps of our house. Four strange guys fully dressed in army clothing stood on our steps equipped with high powered M16 Rifles and hand guns. Half asleep and half awake I got out of bed with the intention of doing my daily morning ritual. Take a bath, wash my face and brush my teeth.
I passed my mother in the kitchen cooking breakfast and said Good Morning Mommy. Yuh ready fi eat breakfast yet, she asked. I replied, mi nuh ready yet mommy ? mi haffi guh wash mi face and brush mi teeth first. Ok, but bcase n? com? eat sumting before yuh get ready fi school, she said.
Still a little dazed from waking up I stumbled towards the door and slowly started to undo the locks and then I proceeded to open to door. To my surprised were four strange guys standing on my steps looking as if they were looking for someone to kill. So I slowing started closing the door while hoping that they didn?t notice that someone had seen them. As I slowly closed the door I heard the zinc fences at the back of my yard making an extremely loud noise. It sounded as if someone was trying to break it down, climb over or kick their way though. Continue reading 15 yrs old boy Remembers Monday Morning