Raising a blended family in Jamaica
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ต.ค. 2024
- Country White Jamaican, Miss Mel shares stories of raising a blended family in Jamaica and some gems from her childhood as well. Raising a family in Jamaica is a great experience and Mel and her family have many fond memories and shared experiences.
Going to school in Jamaica is an experience we all share as a family and many a family dinner is spent remembering and sharing our stories and how similar they are.
We love Jamaica and it will always be home to us.
I hope you enjoy my little trip down memory lane in this video.
If you want to see where I started check out my Pilot video
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Oh my gosh you jogged so many memories today! My big Sister went to Immaculate Conception and my Cousin went to Holy Childhood although neither were Boarders. My Sister went in the days when the students wore little straw hats and I used to use her hat in the mornings to shade my eyes from the glare of the Sun while Mummy drove us to school. I went to a little school run by an elderly English lady by the name of Miss Butler. One morning as we were dropping off my Sister at Immaculate they made the announcement that the girls no longer had to wear hats and I remember all the students threw their hats in the air and hats fell like rain. My Mummy worked at JBC as Bobby Ghisays Secretary when I was a young teenager and I made firm friends with Mr. Hall who gave me informal lesson on how to present the news on TV. He was a lovely person and so was Mr. Ghisays who I consider family. Remember when TV used to star at 4 PM and the JBC logo would come on with a sort of shaking chattering "brrr brrr" noise? Haha! Oh and my big Brother went to JC and then boarded at Monroe and of course we all loved a Bruce Lee Kickaz! :)
Ohhh so many memories 💕
Its another great day Auntie how are you
Your still so beautiful and youthful after all these memories
God bless you Auntie ❤️
You're a darling 💋
Those power cuts were the best time to hear about rolling calf and Mr Brown and the John Crow pon di coffin.
🤣🤣🤣 yuppp
Ha ha ha ha! Yu mean di one pon di tree wheel coffen a ask if anyone know Missa Brown?
I agree that power-cuts can bring about some of the best family time. For me, I remember (growing up in a Jamaican family in rural-ish/suburban USA), whenever there was a power-cut, me and my sister would jump up and whoop -- because that meant the electric stove was out (making cooking out of the question), and Daddy would drive out and get Chinese food, and we would all eat by lantern-light. Good memories! 😄🎉🥡🔦
@Starfish Cove that sounds heavenly fi true!!
@@CountryWhiteJamaican your truly Jamaican miss from those stories I remember jbc but cvm had just came on streem then jbc turned super supreme tv we didn't have a fridge though there was a pay phone about a half mile away or we would go twelve miles to the nearest town.
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Lovely ❤ to hear your story . Being born i. England to Jamaican parents i appreciate even more the diversity of JA. Keep up the good work .
Country life is the best. Remember life in hopeful village. 2 radio stations both stations off at 12 midnight. Have no choice but to read with the home sweet home lamp. Lol walk down memory lane. Thanks for sharing.
@Tillia Brown what would this generation of cell phones and tablets have done eh?!!!
They would walk around and say I bored there's nothing to do lol. We tell stories and catch penny walie (night fly) put them in bottles for light. Look up in the sky and appreciative of the moon and the stars. Can't tell when last I Look up. Just the little things. Praying that you will go back soon.
Yup had no choice but to read books until yuh madda cuss yuh fi guh sleep den proceed to out di lamp home sweet home, she use to seh bwoy yuh aguh blind ,
man I missed those days.
Gillia Brown are we would read with the lantern but those where the good old days That will Never Come back the only gun man on the Road was police officers and dog you Could walk Enny times of night 🇯🇲
Very interesting and informative video. Your presentation is par excellence, without any hint of embellishment. Despite the circumstances that literally "forced" you out of Jamaica, you continue to cherish the love you have for Jamaica. It's very refreshing to hear from someone, who, despite having her personal life upended by a traumatic experience, continues to embrace the love for the piece of rock aka Jamaica. I applaud you for you for being so candid about your experiences in Jamaica and trust the information you share will motivate others to cultivate some positive vibes about the country which is dear to your heart. Blessings and keep warm.
Jamaica land we love ❤️ 🇯🇲
I am Jamaican born but I spent most of my childhood in London; left JA in May 1963 returned in 1991 for the first time my children (born in England) have been to Jamaica my wife and I (also Jamaican born) taught our children all about the country so they were excited to go there in 1991.
Once Jamaica touches us in any way we are different. So glad you kept the culture alive in.your kids.
I was living in GTA when the power grid went down and the whole city shutdown. We Jamaicans were thinking how it was business as usual whenever power went. That never stop a ting.
That must have been some serious de ja vu .. LMAO Yup - same ole!
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That was the summer we moved back to Canada from T&T . It was a curiosity to see people so worked up over the power outage
Very true 😂
Where are u from.originally?
So funny hearing you talk about life with your kids, because we get to realize that our own habits (for want of a better word), centers around thiers, such as the kind of movies they love to watch, we end up having to watch the same things.
Pleasant afternoon to Miss Mel and subs. It is a pleasure to hear you talk about jamaica, showing so much love, despite all the challenges. I was there in December, and is already packing to go back in a few weeks.
Have a joyful and safe weekend of 🙋♀️
Good afternoon @ Una Davidson Wow! Happy for you! Enjoy!!!!
Memory time memory time 😂good ole Dennis hall on school challenge quiz😀thx Mel for the nostalgia 😊
That's right! He was on schools challenge as well 👍☺️
Great story. Brings back a lot of memories
Girl you bring back memories when u talked about Dennis Hall ,he did BBC news @8am and i had to listen to that before i went to school. I now live in🇨🇦Canada but everything you've said warms my heart ❤🎉.
So glad that I could take you down memory lane @hazeline ❤️ 🇯🇲
Thanx for sharing your life stories with us Mel. 💯❤️🇬🇧🇯🇲
My pleasure @Queen jay - thank you for listening :)
It’s my pleasure Mel, to listen to you 🌹
We had a school mate her father was white and mom black,she had blonde hair blue eyes but we didn't see her differently we walked barefoot bath in the river, chop wood etc we were just Jamaican kids growing up together going to the same school doing fun things. She'd moved to England very young. Ps you talked about the TV i also remembered the first time we were introduced to one it was at the community center,all this reminiscing i just have to subscribe to your channel. ❤❤
Welcome! 💕
Dennis Hall. Wow another good memory. I remember when my Aunt got her first Phillips tv 📺. 😂😍. Couldn’t wait fi JBC fi tune in. Miss Mel nice as usual but wait miss Lou and ring ding coming next 😂😂.
Lol yes I think it started at like 4 pm 😅 🤣 also remember the matinee on weekends!
Yaady respek! Perhaps only your Jamaican audience will know what kickaz are 😀
We have some JC connection here between myself, your son though he never attended, and Dennis Hall.
Jamaicans must be one of the most resourceful people there are. We would sometimes use power outages to tell stories on the block or in lanes where we resided. We even played football. We must have had perfect vision to see the ball in the black of night. We lived in a lane off the main road in Kingston. It was never lit and even when electric light reflected from the adjacent lane into ours, in sporadic locations, it was still dark. Heading home as a child when it got dark was nerve-wracking because of all the duppy and rolling calf stories the older folks and boys used to tell us. So, from the top of the lane where the street and lane intersect, I would muster up some adrenaline packed courage and take off like a rocket. The thinking was that if I could run fast enough noh duppy nah kech mi, not even Donald Quarry. It was probably 150m or so when I slowed to barge in through the gate and then another sprint to the house's entrance door.
@Paul Marriott yesss re the kickahz. What a story of your run to the house at night time. LOVE this!! Thanks for sharing Paul. JC boyz!!!
We all ran so much as kids that some of us became world champions. If your mother shouted your name from half mile away we would sprint home in no time and tell her you were just in the backyard. You just never mentioned whose yard and that it was 1/2 mile away.
@@patrickdaly1393 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@patrickdaly1393 😀 yes Patrick, true!
This lady sound like some of my teachers from that high schools in Kingston
Great video wonderful accounts of beautiful Jamdown life.Thank you for sharing the love as we all need to be reminded of sweet Jamaica at its best! Bless you! 😊
I graduated from JC way back in 1961 which I am sure is long before your husband went there. From some recent photos, I see that some of the old buildings are still there including the chapel and the school bell on the main verandah.
Ms Mel u was a big deal wid u cell fridge - what a trip to make a call. Love that story. So true about how everybody was welcome into our homes... we really are a hospitable people. To this day even when I live in farrin Can't get use to the call before you come to visit me ting. The blended family stretches so far, my poor niece gets really confused when our best friend turns out not to be their true uncle or auntie. Love ❤️ it.
So true, call before you visit, wait to be invited..we dropped in on friends and it was always great. They dropped in on us too. 🇯🇲 🇯🇲 🇯🇲 🥰
Here in 🇨🇦 loving your stories
Another nice story from you. Captivating as always. JC hmmm! Your son has good taste in High Schools as he wanted to be a Fervet 😀. I remember Dennis Hall as he was the judge on School's Challenge. Oh btw, you are spot on. In Jamaica we don't consider anyone as half brother or half sister. My father had kids outside of my mother's lot, but we never considered each other as half. They were always introduced as my brother or my sister. Keep the videos coming Mel.🤗
Love these stories ❤
Glad you like them @Cat Palmer :)
Thank you for sharing - Tis great - English P 🏴
I just finished watching your show about Kensington Market.Thanks so much.Ihave been in Canada for 48 years and never been there. It was great seeing all those stores and eating venues. Wish they had some closer to where I live. It was like being back home. Thanks again.
Wow I hope you get to visit it someday!!! Such a great feeling right there in Toronto, felt like home 🏡 💙 ♥️
I remember those JBC days and watching every thing on TV, even the "rice grains" when the connection went bad.
If you're still having throat issues, maybe you could try 1 tsp of raw honey. I find that it helps with many things. Just have it by itself and it needs to say Raw honey on the container.
Love your stories btw 🙂
Thank you Kay! 😊
Glad you're back
I'm in downtown Toronto. I started going to Jamaica to spend summers with my grandparents at age 13 and you bring back so many memories. I love you and love your stories 💖🇨🇦🇨🇦🇯🇲
Sweet! So happy you are enjoying the stories. Thanks so much for your support! So you are getting ready for warm weather here like me!! 👍
Actually moving from Toronto to across Canada soon so im welcoming the warm. It makes moving easier
@@oliwoodnorth2371 I totally agree. Wow that's an adventure. Happy travels!
Miss you have a real good story it is very nice back in the days no lights just pure dark in the street in all houses but one thing as you say it was funny.
I am here in the UK from a very small child but now I am old ready for the bone yard..
In the sixtys the shops were very small we could only little shopping why money we had to bring bottles for oil egg bread an so on yes there were so much power cuts we had to be in bed England was very Rough Jamaica was a nice place alot more.
I loved hearing this story. Thank you for sharing this. ❤
Nuff respect mi sister
Blessings to you my dear I remembered watching Dennis Hall on TV, Wonderful!!
This was so informative I loved it
Lovely! I love your journey down memory lane. It reminds me of when you started sharing your stories. This narrative in this video is personal and one in which many folks in Jamaica and the diaspora can relate to.
Thanks. 💗💗💗💗👍👍👍👍
Thank you @C Lloyd Mathison :) It takes courage to just talk the story...but this is who I am :) I appreciate your support!
Greetings from germany. God bless you and your family. ❤
I remember when JBC TV started. We got a TV that Christmas. I remember watching a show called "The Olde Curiosity Shop" right when TV started - don't ask me what it was about! And Bonanza! Of course I remember Dennis Hall - he read news forever! Lol. And I can't remember when he started but I remember Lindy Delapenha doing sports! Didn't realize you were so young when you took on the kids, but I remember when their mom came to Canada to study.
Lindy was the best!! Yes I was pretty young
Thanks for enlighten us further about the family. 😍 Why can’t some people satisfy with what you share or wait until you’re ready to share more. They’re always digging for more.🧐That’s what put some vloggers off.🤣 Gratitude is a must!
Love that Koffee song 🎵 😍 ❤️ thank you! New video coming soon!!
Blessingz Mel!!
My mom bought me my first cell phone when I migrated to Florida in the early 90's. I remember how heavy it was but I was soooo excited !😊 As usual thanks for taking us down to memory lane!
Oh wow! yup! These guys nowadays take it for granted...we were here from the beginning LOL
When ever light gone it was a vibe
@KID dream f'reel
4:20 RIP Dennis Hall. I can never forget him.
Same he is an unforgettable part of my childhood memory
@@CountryWhiteJamaican, those coughs were legendary and my first memory of him was the host of Schools Challenge Quiz.
@@alexzander1839 he was very good as the host!
My fav story teller 🥰
@Rica Lovely 😍 thank youuuu
My brother went to JC, my sister went to Holy Childhood, and I went to Merl Grove… oh man such memories, Dennis Hall doing the news and school challenge quiz… PAC-Man was everyone’s game… Yes, with the power cuts we would sit as kids and tell each other duppy and Anansi stories… This tells you how old I am 🤣. Good memories!! 😊🇯🇲
@Suzette Bell so many parallels 😊 fun times! Merl Grove, I think someone in our family went there, where was that again?
@@CountryWhiteJamaican Merl Grove is on Constant Spring Rd, corner of Dunrobin Blvd, actually not too far from Queens High and Immaculate.
@@suebell1212 that's it!!! Old memory needed a jog lol thank you!
I find your tone to be very humble and respectful. I have met “white Jamaicans” abroad and they were distant and cold. There might have been a bit of classism involved. They tried to minimize their association with Jamaica in order to assimilate into the American culture. That was my first association with “white Jamaicans”. That experience has left a negative mark on me from all those years ago.
That would have left a negative impact on me as well. I love when people are just real. So happy you came across my channel. I appreciate your feedback. Good to know I don't come across as nuff LOL ♥️ 😊
Some of the best quality time was during power cuts lol. You heard family history, long time stories and my Grandma was a born storyteller with a wicked sense of humor 😂
Sweet!!
Your life stories sound familiar. I went to Ferncourt High school in the sixties. My grand parents lived in Limehall.
I can see where we would have a lot of common memories @John 😀
I love that! I dislike the words "step and half." I only use the two if the conversation becomes confusing.
Ditto!! We are family. That's it! ❤️👍
Hi I enjoy your story 👍🏽🇯🇲👍🏽
Thanks so much. Thanks for listening @Kenth Green :)
Thnx for sharing ur story I love see interracial couples succeeding ❤
I’m so sorry to hear your horrific experience. I left at 25 during the bloody political wars, and never returned, but my heart is still there. I’m hoping we can return for a brief visit. Much love for you and your family. We’ll forever be Jamaicans. BigUp 🇯🇲🇨🇦🇺🇸
I have live and travel throughout the Caribbean, i have never heard white folk in the minority, complain about racism.i knew about it. but never thought it was so prevalent, until i travel outside of the region. White & Black.
Yes, it is so sad. We are all one people!!
Where in St. Ann are you from?? My mom was born in that parish in a place called Fort George, which I believe is near Pedro.
Hey!! I am from Claremont near to Higgin Town
God bless you
I heard that both St. Hilda's High & Westwood High are very good girls schools, so I'm surprised that someone from St. Ann would go to school so far away in Kingston. Priory is an OK school but I can't blame your son for wanting to attend the True Blue JC (Fervet power).
JC alumni! They are great schools, I agree. With common Entrance, GSAT they got the marks to go to Campion so that's where 4 of them went. I was an Immaculate girl. My mother went to St.Hildas
Auntie, Lol @“Brown man” …he wasn’t playing lol 😂…at 27 (u) married Mr hottie Brown-man with a 14 years old daughter…goes to says age is nothing but number right Auntie…u are so calm and relax and of course stress free..
Thanks 🙏 for sharing Auntie…
Lol 14 year old son but yeah age is just a number 🤣 😂
bigup jamaica white lady
Lovely lady :)
Nice 1👍
Those was better day in Jamaica. Then days
Better days everywhere. So much has changed all over
Jamaican Brady bunch. LoL Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!
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Fridge / Chest freezer 😂😂
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Jamaicans challenge me all the time when I say racism is not that a big thing in Jamaica, classism is. Not that racism doesn't exist but it pales in comparison to the level of classism. I too have never experienced racism in Jamaica.
I agree. I have been challenged by my black friends who say, who am I to say that I have not experienced racism in JA. But thing is it is not a one way street. I have seen arrogant white people behave like they are above others. It makes me sick to see it. Cut us all - same red blood! But ya, I did not experience racism in Jamaica and since I was a minority - all credit to black Jamaicans. To di wurl!!!
Well mi black like tar and never experienced it . Again before anybody attack mi, I'm not saying it doesn't exist.
I have been floored recently when racism is mentioned by different groups in Jamaica. Classism was in your face. I went to school with kids that didn't socialize with me because we obviously couldn't afford the things they had. Funny enough some of those kids chat me up today. Life I guess.
@@lemorjohnston5006 exactly, hopefully life has taught them a thing or 2
@@Nyammings I love this! Me needah!
Good morning so he was born in Jamaica?
Yes ma'am
Vote UIC FAMILY !...
ULC yaaay! My kids have fond memories of going there.
The UIC are the 3rd political party of Jamaica !!!...
STOP voting for the 2 corrupt puppet parties !...
The people have had enough of living like 3rd world peasants !, While the 2 puppet parties fleece the country !!!...
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@@meshapious1597 omg I didn't know that! UlC IS A PRIMARY school my kids went to lol
th-cam.com/video/q5Cz6Kt4Z5A/w-d-xo.html Please share what they don't want shared !!!...
Good day Mrs Mel would you live back in Jamaica it would be nice just ask god to cover you and get security to travel with you
I have seriously considered it. Waiting on God. Thank you!