[quote author=The Chairman link=topic=84207.msg525762#msg525762 date=1382016837]
Eaten sugar cane strewn along the bank, the sweet taste of tamarind right off the tree . A cool plunge in the trench on a hot day, the smell of mud water in your hair...The essence of growing up in Guyana. The fine ass cutting when you got home was worth it.
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i did every one of those...plus cutting the cane right from the canefield!
every child in my village learnt to swim in the trench running right in front of our houses.
i had a most memorable and happy childhood in guyana......but i would still not ever go back there to live.
rice work is a killer!
(even though i didn't actually do any of the hard part of it)
but i watched my mom and older siblings & their spouses do back-breaking work in the rice fields to make an honest living!