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My daughter came to Guyana and learned a new word

Oct 27, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
I have a five-year-old girl who was born in the Kalahari Desert (home of the bush men). One would probably ask, why go to such a place to live but the fact of the matter is it is much better than living in Georgetown.
I recalled having ‘blackout’ once in the three years I resided there. This happened to facilitate maintenance work and thoughtfully, the entire populace was informed.
After awhile nostalgia gripped me and I decided to come back to my beloved Guyana. My family and I arrived at night so when I saw the new and improved East Bank road I was pleasantly surprised.
We had a restful night and the next day it happened. Without warning the lights went out. My daughter wanted to know what happened since she was watching cartoons. I had to explain to her that we are now in Guyana and this is what usually happens. It was her first experience with ‘blackout’. Recently, in Barbados, my daughter and I went shopping in Bridgetown. We went into a store and because of the fact that we just came out of the sun, the store seemed darker than usual. Suddenly, my daughter blurted out, ‘Daddy does this store have blackout?’ Everyone froze for a moment to get a glimpse at the source of such an uncivilised question. I felt as though I was in an old western when the outlaw steps into the saloon.
To the powers that be, thank you for expanding my daughter’s vocabulary, she now knows a new word, ‘blackout’.
Ryan Waldron

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