"Who doh hear, does feel"

- Trini Proverb

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Rules

Reach here as fast as you can. The good food runs out quickly.

Buy the corn soup when they make it. I telling you, these people here know how to make soup. Buy the lime juice. Buy the lasagna. Don’t buy the stew fish. It tastes good but it has plenty pepper, and you know how you white people can’t handle pepper. The toilets real nasty in this place. Wait until you go home to use the toilet. But remember to bring your own toilet paper for when you don’t listen to me and go ahead and eat the stew fish. Your father told me how stubborn you can be.

Don’t call anyone by their first name. Don’t step on anyone’s shoes. Put your head on the table if you want to take a little sleep during lunch. Just be careful. You never know what kind of things people looking to steal in this place.  If somebody asks you to borrow a dollar, lend it to them. You know how you white people can be. Don’t start no fights. Don’t involve yourself in what don't concern you. Don’t give the prefects any backchat. Remember, they still allowed to beat children in this place.

Don’t ever let them catch you reading magazines in here. They even take away car magazines. What? What you mean you don’t know any thing about cars? Well, boy, now I really know why your father wanted me to talk to you.  

They have a window upstairs that looks straight into the girl’s school across the road. Don’t let me catch you going up there though. Remember, you not a big man yet, and I don’t want you getting beat on your first day. 

Don’t wear too much jewlery. Don’t talk during prayers. Never kick ball inside the cafeteria. Two boys got suspended last year for that kind of behaviour. What? What you mean you don’t play football? Well, how the hell you expect to make friends in this place? What you say? You mean to tell me you now starting to get nervous? Boy, shut your mouth and bow your head. The lunch prayer starting.

Oh Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.