10 SCHOOL ROUTINES EVERY JAMAICAN CHILD DID

[@TerrianSwabt]

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

[@rwadaley]

I thought there was an actual paper…lol!

[@spitters1251]

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]

Thanks for sharing

[@rwadaley]

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…

[@dianagrant-barton6609]

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

[@melvenaduncan1148]

All things bright and beautiful.

[@lydiamorgan9952]

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.

[@godislove1076]

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

[@hamil73brenda15]

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

[@junemullings5498]

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.

[@veronicastgeorge1304]

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]

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

[@junemullings5498]

@@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.

[@maxinecole3098]

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

[@pb8576]

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]

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

[@junemullings5498]

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

[@missbiggs9437]

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.

[@shani5345]

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

[@melvenaduncan1148]

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

[@rwadaley]

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

[@patsy8016]

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

[@aimeerobeson5238]

brings back memories

[@virgoangel4072]

Really enjoyed this podcast

[@HermaWallace]

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.

[@godislove1076]

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

[@claudettespencer5448]

‘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).

[@Xyzz178]

Teachers book center was the book store in Linstead

[@TerrianSwabt]

The wash out use to hurt our belly bad

[@joysilvera201]

Student Companion as wellm

[@joysilvera201]

Correction well.

[@junemullings5498]

@@joysilvera201 Remember Brighter Grammar

[@virgoangel4072]

Grey Mist, Beverly bus, Sunbeam

[@ricksanchez9232]

The fastest country bus was Tammie’s!

[@melvenaduncan1148]

Buses.. BlueMist. Greyline North Star.😂

[@lindelmccormack1660]

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

[@virgoangel4072]

Doreen bus for me 😂

[@vivahenry4547]

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.

[@Xyzz178]

Junior English revised also

[@IolaDrummond]

Blue Danube Bus fi Montegpnians

[@virgoangel4072]

First aid in English reader B verbal reasoning

[@TerrianSwabt]

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

[@Portia-oc6mr]

What was wash-out made of?

[@missbiggs9437]

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]

@@missbiggs9437 Thanks for the information.

[@keithbarnes4995]

Litany and the Scarlet Poinsettia

[@patrickwoodcock7732]

Senna pod was also used​@@missbiggs9437

[@osbournereid8370]

Worm pill

[@dianagrant-barton6609]

Which one😂

[@nettlemelhado3377]

Not seen has yet 😢

[@joysilvera201]

Spck