My friends back home are so funny. Apparently, Prince Charles is visiting Trinidad and Tobago. Maybe they miss governing it, I don't know. One of my friends made a Facebook album called "A ROYAL VISIT" and I got this email from a dear one, Maria:
I would play carnival if you could buy the pieces of the costume separately, because all I want for Carnival is this...
Back home, in Trinidad and Tobago, at this very moment, my friends, and pretty much half the country, as well as some thousand tourists, are all suited up in the streets of Port of Spain 'playin' a mas'. While I would love to be there with a beastly cold beer in hand and practically nothing but sequins and beads on my body, I have a short story to write out here for class tomorrow. I checked out some of this year's costumes to see what I was missing out. Not much apparently, since I'm not one to parade around public in a bikini (body sensitive, which is totally out of character for a woman of the caribbean. Ah well). Plus I'd much rather put $500 US towards a trip to South America. Here are some of my favourite tidbits of costume this year. Carnival can be fashion and art too, not just indecent exposure!
