Lets get EDUCATED??? 0_o

Well as I told you all once before, I grew up on the island of Antigua for the first 17 years of my life. I have gone through pre-school to high school in Antigua, then 12th grade in New York and now i'm in University in Texas.  In Antigua, we wear uniforms all the way through our school years. A very strict dress code and code of conduct are ingrained in us from an early age. Now i'm not going to talk about pre-school or elementary school but I will talk about high school and college and the differences that I realize.

DRESS CODE 
At the Antigua Girls' High School, the ALL GIRLS high school that I attended for 5 years (we have no middle school so high school is equivalent to the 7th-11th grades) we wore a uniform that yes we all hated, it was a blue dress with a collar, a belt around the waist and black shoes with navy blue socks!! NO EXCEPTIONS. Our shoe heel couldn't be too high and we were only allowed one piercing in our ears only (could only be knobs or small rings with no colour or stones), no rings, no chains and no jewelry on our hands except a watch. We weren't allowed to wear weaves, or extensions of any sort unless for a medical reason.

When I moved to New York, I enrolled in Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers there was literally no dress code in the past years and then the year I got there they tried to implement a white shirt and black pant dress code which nobody followed except me of course because I was accustomed to wearing a uniform and I didn't see the problem with having a uniform but all the other students had a very serious problem with it because "they are trying to tell us what we must wear and that's taking away our freedom of expression". Hold up wait a minute, are you serious??? ITS SCHOOL what do you need to express through dress AT SCHOOL??? But anyway they ignored the dress code and there were no repercussions for them doing so.

PUNISHMENTS
 If we were late 3 times to school without a valid excuse we received a detention, 3 detentions lead to a suspension and 3 suspensions lead to expulsion and since there isn't a "no child left behind" law no other school HAD to take you.  Yes there were exceptions but for the most part we followed most of the rules.  We were not allowed to be disrespectful to our teachers and there was certainly no tolerance for using curse words on the compound or while we were in uniform. We still got whoopings from teachers and the principal and during prayers when the entire school was assembled you could be punished infront of the entire school.  Every Wednesday the detention list was read infront the entire school and if there was anybody who did anything that the principal thought the entire school should know about you would be embarrassed at general assembly. For fighting you could be suspended or expelled but in my five years of high school I only witnessed a handful of fights.

In NY students cursed at the teachers, at each other and to anybody they felt like they could because they had "freedom of speech". I'm sorry but this is something I have a very big problem with.  I understand that yes sometimes teachers get on your nerves and drive you crazy but to disrespect an adult is just something I could never be OK with. The only thing that students really got punished for was fighting. There were other small things that made them get detention but punishments were very limited.

In University the language got worse and the disrespect more blatant. I guess because everyone thinks that they are grown and that they know everything they need to, there's really no reason to listen or treat others with respect.  Some teachers ask you to leave class or they may rant on or deduct points from your final grade but some students seem not to care at all. The only things that that get severely punished are fights, weed and weapons. You get fined for having alcohol on campus or for being too loud and having illegal roommates in your dorm but that is it.

I have enjoyed going through these different education systems however there needs to be a lot of changes to them.

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Let's Listen to some MUSIC??? 0_o

Well, it wasn't too long after I got to PVAMU that I realized that i would have problems with more than the questions and ignorant statement. One other thing I have always loved and still love to this day is MUSIC!!! I know a lot of music of different genres and from the past couple decades even though sometimes I ask myself  "Sabia where do you know this song from and why do you know ALL the words?"  I thought that coming to Texas I would have quickly adjusted to the music and everything else but I was WRONG!!

Of course growing up in the Caribbean I always heard Soca, Danchall, Reggae, Calypso and as I got older I started listening to R&B, Hip Hop, Pop, Rock etc and my mom loves Jazz music so I know a lil summ summ!! my favourite genre of music has to be Soca but I have always been open to listening and hearing new things. Then I came to PV!!!


I went to the courtyard party for all the incoming freshman and I expected to hear a variety of music because when I lived in Antigua and even the year I lived in New York, any party or gathering I went to there was always a variety of music. However, this is what I heard (feel free to youtube theses songs):

Do the Ricky Bobby - B Hamp
HomeGurl - Bone
Walk With a Dip - Loui$iana Cash
Do Da Stanky Leg - G-Spot
Ice Cream Paint Job - Dorrough

Then as the years went on, the school artists songs started getting 'big".
Flex - Party Boyz
Twerk - Dj Chose & Brookgang Music

Yes there have been more but I think that I have mentally put up a block to them.


I never thought that I would be so homesick in my life.  It's to the point now where I am not even interested in going to parties here anymore, well...pretty much after my freshman year I can count the number of parties  that I have been to on ONE hand and it wouldn't pass my middle finger!!!  Yes I understand that if I go to a Caribbean party I will hear mostly Caribbean music, but that is not my point. Even though I will hear MOSTLY Caribbean music that is not ALL that I would hear.

On the rare occasion that a DJ would play some other music, it would be really popular R&B, Hip Hop and Rap ummmm excuse me I don't know about Texans but you cannot efficiently dance to these types of music!! THIS IS MY BLOG YOU WILL HEAR MY OPINIONS. I have heard maybe three "reggae" songs played throughout my entire college career and they are Flex, Pon De River and Get Busy!!! Yea I know -_-.

Well I know everyone has their preferences and loves their own music and I am not knocking "TX Music" because there are some songs that I have grown to love because I do adapt to my environment. Call me a chameleon (even though I am extremely terrified of lizards but back to the topic at hand).  TX does grow on you and I definitely have grown to love it but I don't think I will ever be fully entertained by this music.

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Intro....IIGHT LETS GO!!!!

Whenever I get asked "Where are you from?" I always ask "Where was I born or where was I raised?" 

When many people think of the word "multicultural" they probably think about a place (city, state, company...etc) that contains people from different cultural backgrounds.  However, I, am talking about the fact that I was born in the United States of America, but I grew up on the island of Antigua. I lived in Antigua for the first 17 yrs of my life before moving back (I really shouldn't say "back" because i technically never lived in the US as a child but whatever u get my point) to the U.S.A so YES I still have an "accent" (and it will never go anywhere...it is a part of me).  I first lived in the Bronx in NY (BX BABYYYYY) for my 12th grade year of High School then I moved to Texas on a track scholarship (Prairie View A&M University to be exact) to achieve higher education and this is where my dilemma begins.

In NY, because it is such a melting pot of races and cultures, I could always find the foods that we ate in Antigua, the music that I loved, just some good ole Caribbean culture.  When I moved to Texas I was hit with a great reality check that everywhere in the US is NOT and I repeat NOT like NYC!!!  Now don't get me wrong, I have grown to love Texas and probably prefer it to NY (only because I don't like the cold and I like a slower pace). However, my freshman year in college I got hit with every (ummmmm let me use the word unexpected) unexpected question in the book. Here are a few:

I COULDN'T MAKE THESE UP IF I WANTED TO

"Oh you from the islands, what is it like living in trees?"

"Do ya'll swim to school n stuff?"

"Where in Jamaica is Antigua?"

"I know you gotta be fast cuz ya'll gotta run everywhere right?"

"Do ya'll wear shoes where you from?"

"How do you know how to use a computer?"

"Do ya'll live in huts still?"

OK yes I know that Antigua is a really small island and a lot of people have never heard of it, but come on, not everybody that has an "accent" is from Africa, Jamaica, Barbados or the Bahamas!!! 

Now there are many different situations, views, arguments...etc that I have encountered here in Texas that will be discussed, talked about, blogged about (or whatever you want to call it).

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