My First Trip To Trinidad And Tobago

My first trip to Trinidad and Tobago was such an amazing trip to take with my family. The island is so beautiful the first time I went it was 1997. It was also my first plane ride. I was so nervous to fly but excited to visit my family’s country where they were born and raised. When I boarded the plane, I started to get anxious and my mom had to calm me down. When we took off it wasn’t that bad 6 and ½ hours later here we are landing in Trinidad. We boarded the plane and we took off half hour later music was playing, and everyone was dancing and having a good time. The music took my mind off the nervousness. We landed, and I said to myself let the fun begin.

Our first stop in Trinidad was to get something to eat Trinidad is famous for their doubles, roti and pholourie and that’s exactly what I had. My mom and I went to visit the family with my grandmother and cousins. My mom took me to her house were my grandfather built the house were my mom and siblings grew up in. During our two weeks stay we were in the carnival. We had to go pick up our costumes to play Monday mass. During carnival month which is in February there is a lot of thing going on around that time. Listening to steel pan at the different steel pan sites, playing in J’ouvert, carnival and going to parties was what we did and visiting family.

J’ouvert is old night mas were a celebration occurs Sunday morning at 2 or 3am to celebrate the immigrated in their country. Masqueraders dress up in costumes listen to