10 SCHOOL ROUTINES EVERY JAMAICAN CHILD DID

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  • @TerrianSwabt
    @TerrianSwabt 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Every day before school reopens all of us when going to school would shout in the community "FREE PAPER BUN'😂😂😂

    • @rwadaley
      @rwadaley 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I thought there was an actual paper…lol!

  • @billmburtontv920
    @billmburtontv920 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    School days are the best-test years ever. One love, every time Jamaica🖤💚💛

  • @lydiamorgan9952
    @lydiamorgan9952 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This is a great reminiscing, so emotional brings me back to this time going to school in Jamaica Country side, we had was to iron out uniforms , and shine our shoes,feels so good . Great times in Jamaica attending school in the late sixties early seventies. Now living in Canada.I enjoy your show.

  • @spitters1251
    @spitters1251 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I just love hearing about Jamaica. I didn't get to experience much of the school life - I left when I was in the 3rd grade - but I love hearing about the old days. It was a great time growing up. Life was simpler then. Yep, that was back in the late '60s and early '70s, especially growing up in the country (Trelawny). ❤❤❤

    • @kareemsquest
      @kareemsquest  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thanks for sharing

  • @hamil73brenda15
    @hamil73brenda15 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    My brother and I took "road liner" bus. We would board it either at Mammee Bay or steer town in St. Ann and it took me to Ferncourt high in Claremont and my brother to Dinthill technical high in linstead. Those were great days. I reach school too early, and my brother late

  • @dawntrenchfield7920
    @dawntrenchfield7920 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    We used to get washout before school reopens.

  • @melvenaduncan1148
    @melvenaduncan1148 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    All things bright and beautiful.

    • @Winti2024
      @Winti2024 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Land of my fathers

    • @junemullings5498
      @junemullings5498 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@melvenaduncan1148 We use to sing the hymn, "Immortal Invisible God only Wise." We would sing the National anthem and say the pledge in the mornings. Lunch time we pray, "Thank you for the food we eat. Thank you for the birds that sing. Thank you Lord for everything. Amen." At dismissal we use to pray, "Enlighten our darkness we beseech Thee Oh Lord." Such good memories. Those were the good old days.

  • @rwadaley
    @rwadaley 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Facts bout the ironing and di criss seam, my ironing did so wicked when me join the US Marine Corps and my fellow Marines si fi mi camouflage utilities dem woulda ask mi fi mi dry cleaners. Haffi tell dem a me do dis…

  • @junemullings5498
    @junemullings5498 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    We use to get the Mojo Herb to kill intestinal parasites and keep the colon clean. Parents didn't want us to miss any school days. Also we got cod liver oil, honey and molasses to keep us from getting colds. One thing I know we never got sick often.

  • @xamaycashearer3884
    @xamaycashearer3884 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love the vintage photos!
    Thank you for the flashback into the pat

  • @dawntrenchfield7920
    @dawntrenchfield7920 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My father used to ride his bicycle and race the bus Morning Star in the morning to the Square in Cambridge St James.

  • @dianagrant-barton6609
    @dianagrant-barton6609 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You are welcome sis. Love watching…remembering the good old days ❤

  • @rwadaley
    @rwadaley 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I had three uniforms. Wear one Mon and Tuesday, next one Tuesday and Thursday and last one pon Friday.

  • @veronicastgeorge1304
    @veronicastgeorge1304 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Lol😂 , I am 73 years old now, and I still have the New First Aid in English with me here in Florida. In the evening, when school was about to over, we would sing this song 🎵 ( Now the day is over ,night is drawing night. Shadow of the evening still across the sky.

    • @viviennegrant307
      @viviennegrant307 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We did this too. This hymn still brings me great comfort in the evenings and nights.

    • @junemullings5498
      @junemullings5498 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@veronicastgeorge1304 Oh yes. I remembered saying that prayer. Also in the mornings the entire school would have devotion before class. We would say the pledge and sing the National Anthem. Those days were some good days.

    • @julietpaul3582
      @julietpaul3582 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Now the darkness gathers stars began to peep birds and bees and flowers soon will be asleep 😢 this brings back so much beautiful and also sad memories 😢😢😊

  • @ElaineTownsend-cw1jf
    @ElaineTownsend-cw1jf หลายเดือนก่อน

    In my house of 10 siblings. All 7 girls' uniforms were made by my mother, including bloomers. Shoes, kahkis, and accessories were purchased when the pardner draw came in. For many years, my mom's August pardner draw was used for return to school stuff.

  • @godislove1076
    @godislove1076 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I remember SPCK and Time store on king street kingston and shadees in spanish town.
    SPCK is now kingston bookstore and it had been the biggest book store in kingston

  • @shani5345
    @shani5345 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Going school book shopping and wrapping them was such a highlight about going back to school. And the smell of everything was GLORIOUS!

  • @missbiggs9437
    @missbiggs9437 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Another fun-filled episode … thanks!! Regarding the annual washout or purging, pretty much all the grandmothers would talk among themselves to plan the week, maybe even the day, they want to designate as the “Dr. Do Good” day, that’s what my grand-aunt called it. Between 4:30/5:30am, Granny could be heard walking down the passage with the big spoon full of raw, home boiled black, stinky castor oil and a peeled orange. I learned early to caulk my nose, suck off the spoon and swallow the castor oil in one gulp then eat the orange; around 7 o/clock she’s coming again with a hot cup of black herb tea - with maybe a little sugar or condensed milk but not always … she believed in giving both!! Remember, back then there wasn’t any formal deworming medicine and after a summer eating all sorts of insect laden fruits, running barefoot and stepping into animal faeces, tapeworm, round worms and other parasites were a real threat to children’s health. Until high school, I followed in my siblings footsteps so the majority of my books and even my uniform were recycled hand-me-downs but the places for back to school books, usually in August, were Times Store and Sangsters on King Street. Princess Street was where to go for haberdashery, from uniform material to the best of the best for couture men’s and ladies’ wear.

  • @ElaineTownsend-cw1jf
    @ElaineTownsend-cw1jf หลายเดือนก่อน

    Spanenunciation. and Litany, both by Claude McKay. These poems were used to help us to enunciate and speak with our faces and hands.

  • @ElaineTownsend-cw1jf
    @ElaineTownsend-cw1jf หลายเดือนก่อน

    Remember school hymnal with 100 songs. A small redish orange book. All the Christmas carols were in the back.

  • @dawntrenchfield7920
    @dawntrenchfield7920 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The highs by great men reached and kept.

    • @junemullings5498
      @junemullings5498 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@dawntrenchfield7920 Silver and gold will perish away but a good education will never decay

    • @junemullings5498
      @junemullings5498 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@dawntrenchfield7920 Silver and gold will vanish away but a good education will never decay

  • @maxinecole3098
    @maxinecole3098 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I use to wear a shoe name hushpuppies ,a store name Bata.

    • @pb8576
      @pb8576 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you couldn't afford hush puppies, you would get a pair of "booga," which looked similar to black Converse canvas shoes. One had to wash, and one had to polish

    • @junemullings5498
      @junemullings5498 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@maxinecole3098 Anyone remember the cheap shoes they use to call Tarzan.

    • @junemullings5498
      @junemullings5498 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I remember too the white crepe. We would use the whitening on them. The crepe was for physical education.

    • @michellewallace2000
      @michellewallace2000 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes

    • @michellewallace2000
      @michellewallace2000 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hushpuppy

  • @dawntrenchfield7920
    @dawntrenchfield7920 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Morning Star

  • @julietpaul3582
    @julietpaul3582 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Kareem yes my mom did give us wash out before school open . Did you know prisoners used to cook our school lunch It was called bolo sluch they used to have a driver delivering it to school it was some good food one of my favorite was the salt fish stew and the stew peas and rice and on Friday we used to get a box of powdered milk in a box of/ milk powder , on the box was the symbol of two hands gripping fingers as a sign of respect and strength at least that’s how it looks to me , most of the time the milk powder end up in our face or our head either from a fight or just playing around 😂😂😂😂 I’m a Kingston woman so I can’t speak for the school in the country areas in those days

    • @kareemsquest
      @kareemsquest  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh thank you for sharing so much insight

  • @godislove1076
    @godislove1076 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ganja train used to go to ST Ann i remenber that bus..was it north star?. Thanks for the great memories

  • @claudettespencer5448
    @claudettespencer5448 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    ‘Free paper bun’ definitely has its origin in slavery, though not so much the emancipation period. Even during slavery, there were freed ‘slaves’, freed benevolently by the slave owner for various reasons. Eg. a death bed wish / a twinge of conscience, etc.
    The freedom paper was like a passport to verify the identity/ status of the freed slave as he/she moved about ‘freely’ within a slave society. More specifically, it was ‘paperwork’ to restrict /control the movement of runaway slaves.
    ‘Free paper bun (burned)’ alludes to the fact that even where granted, the free paper could be retracted literally (actually burnt) & figuratively (revoked/ cancelled).

  • @julietpaul3582
    @julietpaul3582 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There was a blind lady who used to play a music instrument on king street I think she had one or two of her kids with her I think her name was MISS Adina and I also think she was from Trench TOWN . THERE WAS A POEM THAT WE USED SAY IN SCHOOL ABOUT THROUGH POINCIANA TREE I HOPE I’M spelling it right 😂😂😂

    • @julietpaul3582
      @julietpaul3582 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not through it was about the poinciana tree .this stupid tablet always spelling and saying the wrong thing 😂

  • @rosemariesmith1430
    @rosemariesmith1430 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sunbeam was my bus this run from Kingston to Portland

  • @virgoangel4072
    @virgoangel4072 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Really enjoyed this podcast

    • @kareemsquest
      @kareemsquest  12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You're welcome

  • @melvenaduncan1148
    @melvenaduncan1148 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    We used to grate cassava and make starch. The khaki and the uniform could almost stand by themselves. No sah.

  • @patsy8016
    @patsy8016 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Free paper bun also means, your freedom over the school holidays were over. Back to school, back to learning.

  • @TerrianSwabt
    @TerrianSwabt 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The wash out use to hurt our belly bad

  • @Xyzz178
    @Xyzz178 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Teachers book center was the book store in Linstead

  • @simonelavigne8618
    @simonelavigne8618 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sangsters Books in Kingston

  • @richardanderson519
    @richardanderson519 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I would Have to drink it in front of my Mom 😂😂

  • @HermaWallace
    @HermaWallace 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    From what I remember when I was younger going to school at then of August going back to school at the beginning of September our parents always says your free paper burn living in Canada for 48yrs do they still used that term.

  • @aimeerobeson5238
    @aimeerobeson5238 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    brings back memories

  • @Winti2024
    @Winti2024 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Open the front and back doors letting out the old year and inviting the new year 🎉

  • @joysilvera201
    @joysilvera201 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Student Companion as wellm

    • @joysilvera201
      @joysilvera201 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Correction well.

    • @junemullings5498
      @junemullings5498 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@joysilvera201 Remember Brighter Grammar

  • @dawntrenchfield7920
    @dawntrenchfield7920 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Blue Danube

  • @ElaineTownsend-cw1jf
    @ElaineTownsend-cw1jf หลายเดือนก่อน

    Btw, she also made our school bags.

  • @virgoangel4072
    @virgoangel4072 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Grey Mist, Beverly bus, Sunbeam

  • @dawntrenchfield7920
    @dawntrenchfield7920 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ruby's transport

  • @lindelmccormack1660
    @lindelmccormack1660 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Another popular school hymn is called Immortal Invisible, the only wise God.

  • @dawntrenchfield7920
    @dawntrenchfield7920 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yes First aid in English

    • @junemullings5498
      @junemullings5498 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@dawntrenchfield7920 Brighter Grammar and Civics for Young Jamaicans

  • @virgoangel4072
    @virgoangel4072 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Doreen bus for me 😂

  • @melvenaduncan1148
    @melvenaduncan1148 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Buses.. BlueMist. Greyline North Star.😂

  • @Xyzz178
    @Xyzz178 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Junior English revised also

  • @vivahenry4547
    @vivahenry4547 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I would be physically sick before swallowing that nasty washout medicine but that did not stop my mother from giving it to me. Oh the joys of childhood back then.

  • @ricksanchez9232
    @ricksanchez9232 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The fastest country bus was Tammie’s!

  • @billmburtontv920
    @billmburtontv920 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    When di bus a go round di carna, yuh seh. Carna to rass Parson.

    • @selmamiller2281
      @selmamiller2281 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      😂😂😂

  • @virgoangel4072
    @virgoangel4072 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    First aid in English reader B verbal reasoning

  • @IolaDrummond
    @IolaDrummond 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Blue Danube Bus fi Montegpnians

  • @TerrianSwabt
    @TerrianSwabt 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Never eat roast bird nor any bird before only the ground one😂

  • @ElaineTownsend-cw1jf
    @ElaineTownsend-cw1jf หลายเดือนก่อน

    ...Spanish Needle.

  • @dianagrant-barton6609
    @dianagrant-barton6609 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Which one😂

  • @carolhamilton9486
    @carolhamilton9486 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    We have to get Bible.

  • @Portia-oc6mr
    @Portia-oc6mr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What was wash-out made of?

    • @missbiggs9437
      @missbiggs9437 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Mostly it was black castor oil straight off of the spoon with an orange to take away the taste but it could also be ‘herb tea’, the Mojo herb talked about in the video, that was usually purchased from the compounding drugstore or any other concoction of bush tea/remedy your grandma can conceive of. 😂😂

    • @Portia-oc6mr
      @Portia-oc6mr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@missbiggs9437
      Thanks for the information.

    • @keithbarnes4995
      @keithbarnes4995 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Litany and the Scarlet Poinsettia

    • @patrickwoodcock7732
      @patrickwoodcock7732 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Senna pod was also used​@@missbiggs9437

    • @osbournereid8370
      @osbournereid8370 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Worm pill

  • @nettlemelhado3377
    @nettlemelhado3377 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Not seen has yet
    😢

  • @joysilvera201
    @joysilvera201 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Spck