Monday, July 14, 2008

A strange occurrence.

In all me born days, I never know it coulda happen here. Even as teeny-weenie li’l tots they teach we that some things just don’t occur on the tip of South America, they only take place in other countries. Like snow.

But…bless me soul if I lie…we got a foreign season here now!

I always thought that the only seasons we get is mango season, sapodilla season…all kinda fruits in season, rainy season and the rest o’ the year is sun.

Truth to tell, I shouldn’t doubt that this foreign season is really occurring here.

It must be true.

I see it on tee vee.

And as everybody know, everything you see on all them media is true.

One business academy advertise summer classes; one wild entertainment group promoting a fun event taking place this summer, and several small schools inviting parents to enroll they chil’ren in summer programmes.

The only problem is though, we the people can’t really tell when is actually summer. Because it all depend on when them classes or events taking place. Some last for one week in July; some happen one weekend or a day in August. Others go from July to August.

Why this strange weather pattern happening here, you ask? Some folks would say that it is because we the people suck up all things foreign without discrimination; others say we get brain-washed by too much foreign tee vee.

But I say that it got to be because of global warming. Too much sun in we head, man, too much heat.

I decide, just in case them other foreign seasons take over here too, I gon do a calendar for we the people.

It go like this:

January. February. March.

Spring.

May. June. July.

Summer.

September.

Audum [that is, Autumn with the foreign pronunciation that we the people love].

November.

Winner [that is, Winter with the foreign pronunciation that we the people love].

This is what global integration is all about.

27 comments:

cadiz12 said...

i love the pronunciations.

CG said...

What happen to August? that month doesn't exist?
Too much outside influence GG. We got to go with the times, man.

PI said...

And December? You only have one month of Winner? In fear and trepidation I did today July 14th remove our electric blanket. Honestly!

Stolid charisma said...

ha!

sablonneuse said...

If we relied on the weather it would be hard to tell which season we were in here.

hyndm said...

interesting observation on globalization...and too funny!

john.g. said...

Good to see you're getting the 'global warming ' effect too.

It's crap here as well!

Guyana-Gyal said...

Uh-oh john. g. you mean it's like misery loves company? :-D [That's my favourite 'belief] haha.

Thanks for noticing, hyndm.

Sab, maybe now you can say it's hot season and freezing cold season.

Stolid, your post about Guyana being the 50-something state reminded me of the summer post I had simmering in my head.

Pat, remember it's a calendar for the tropics. Brrr, the first time I experienced winter I BAWLED. I couldn't believe it, I cried, it was so cold. I loved the electric blanket!

CG, it's now Summer like April is now Spring, haha.

Cadiz, I learn fast. You should hear my Indian accent, 'yaar' and all.

Mr Farty said...

But, but... <clicky> Guyana is almost touching the equator! Shurely it's summer all the time, innit? Oh. Irony. Right.

There's a little something over on my blog for you.

Olivia said...

Haha, October is missing also.

It is obvious with this post that the sun has finally gone to your head, Gyal.

Jdid said...

y'all have very much seasons? we duz just have christmas, cricket, kite flying season, independence and kadooment. that is we season.

an we seasons duz overlap like cricket duz overlap kite flying and at kadooment.

Jdid said...

oh and doan faget hurricane, dat is an important one fa we too. dat duz overlap cricket, kadooment and independence

Stolid charisma said...

Yeh.. i figured Guyana-gal. And the post was 51st state.

Nice to hear your take on it..

The Mercenary said...

:D :D :D Sweet sapodilla gyal dem ppl like all things foreign -- dem does even get an american accent without leaving this here country :D :D

Guyana-Gyal said...

Mercenary, one day on the radio I heard, 'That was a massaige from the Manastry of Halth.' A friend told me that the little children at the private schools are talking this way too.

Well Stolid, we better start learning Portuguese instead of 'merican, the way them Brazilians taking over...

Oh shucks, JDid, yes, I forgot, kite flying season, cricket season, but with all this rain right now, them Windies vs Aussies stay away from here.

Olivia...water-logged, that's my brain right now :-D The May-June rainy season is overstaying it's welcome. It's Audum before Summer now.

Mr. Farty, it's raining so much the sky looks like Ireland hee hee. I am well thrilled about the award, especially the tongue in cheek bit. Thank you, I will share this with others as soon as...

john.g. said...

GG, have just heard there is a big natural history programme coming to BBC1 soon, all about Guyana! Don't know when yet so keep checking the 'net!

Olivia said...

Audum? Oh damn!

:P

The Mercenary said...

write a poem - from your heart - write about anything

Michelle said...

LOL I like the pronounciations. Reminds me of the one Cape Malay song that used to always be played at the carnivals in Cape Town. (Carnival a lot like Mardi Gras, but the Malay side adds its own "flavour")

The song chorus is the months of the year, but to outsiders it sounds more like...

gennoo-erry, feb-oo-erry, marsh, Ayyy-pil, mey, joo, joo-lie.
or-gus, sep-te-burr, no-veh-burr, dee-CEH-burr.

and my mom's favourite childhood word - jello, which is a bright primary colour found on bananas and NOT an american pudding! ;-)

How are you doing? I've had my own personal blackout here - my computer's gone crazy and I've been mostly without a computer the last two weeks. Feels like two years!

Have a great weekend. :-)

Hayden said...

I tell people the midwest has winter - mud season - summer - mud season - and back to winter again. Best not think about that too clearly.

Caroline said...

Well I have seasons and it seems that seasonally I have to take a blogging break at this time of year... I'm hoping to keep it short and sweet... I already started drifting into it without realising - just didn't put the computer on for a few days!

So now I'm going to really stop for a week and see if I can reduce my off-season to just the 2 weeks!

Stunner said...

LOL! Yeah, everything foreign is creeping in our culture. What happened to long-day and short-day, and rainy season and dry season? Well, we having some rain right now.

The Mercenary said...

we gat 2 dry spells and 2 wet one --- sound familiar :D

bakannal said...

i does suck me teeth every time i hear bout a summer sale or summer bashment or summer school or summer...

Daphne Wayne-Bough said...

Over here summer is the new winter. Like Pat, I have been sleeping under a duvet AND a quilt for the past few days. Global warming! Ha!

zooms said...

Hi GG,the kitchen full of flies.
I ask where they coming from.
T tell me, " it fly season"
like I suppose to know that.

PI said...

GG: I wonder if you are busy writing? I'm trying to gear myself to finish - ready to print out.

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