Easter Week In Anna Catherina

Easter week was a blur with activities. My good friend, Brian Cleary, was visiting amid celebrations and religious traditions. We attended a Hindu Jandei, followed by Phagwah, a National tradition of painting peers and passing strangers with powders and colored liquid to commemorate the sowing of seed on agricultural lands.

We also toured a rice factory with fellow PCV’s that was informative and eye opening. Rice is a staple dish that most Guyanese eat on a daily basis, sometimes two or three times a day. Rice is offered at every event and featured in Creolese Restaurants as well as the many Chinese eateries.

Easter Sunday is quiet but on Easter Monday the communities come alive, especially along the sea wall with kite flying, eating and drinking until the wee hours of the morning. My home rocked with Guyanese gyrations until 2am and then commenced again at 6:30am on the Tues. after. One can only grit teeth and hold on to sanity until the scenario plays out.

Go fly a kite, would ya!

Beautiful sewer of rice bags.

 

Mini-bussin with Patty at left. Brian and I soakin in the powder and the Power of Phaagwah!

Patty and Lauren