Help the Rat Race Is Very Much Alive and Real In Barbados

 

My life of takings things easy and living in a more relaxed manner finely came crashing to a halt yesterday morning courtesy of the School run. The rat race had finely come to visit me in Barbados and it was a complete nightmare. Lets just say the School run involves leaving the house at 7am and we just made it to school in time for 8.30am.

 

Because we moved over from the UK we felt it would be best to put the Kid in a  small private School because we felt it would have been a easier transition for him. I know there are some excellent local primary schools here in Barbados, but such is life. We originally had a wee look at Cordington, which would have been a lot easier to get too, we could have done that in an easy 30 minutes, but you guessed it, the Kid couldn’t stand the place, too many white people for him!

 

We eventually found a small private primary School in a suburb of Bridgetown that he was happy and comfortable with. It is maybe a pain in the butt to get too and it is miles away, but the Kid loves it, and that is what counts. I remember the day’s when I was a wee kid in my home city of Aberdeen in Scotland, which by the way has a bigger population than the whole of Barbados, I only had a 10 minute walk to my School. Those were the days when life was so much simpler!

 

I suppose the one saving   grace is that his School comes out before the main afternoon school rush begins and the journey back home only takes about 30 minutes. So I suppose I have to only spend one journey  suffering the mental effects of the rat race. Who knows we may even be able to somehow find a different route that we can take to School so we can shave some time off the journey.

 

I really do hate the rate race, but fortunately I had been warned before hand that it would be complete nightmare getting into the Bridgetown area during rush hour times when the Schools were open again.  I have also been warned I aint seen nothing yet, I have to wait for an accident to block up the road and then I will see how bad things can get.

 

I dread the School run so much that I may even get a wee speed boat and motor it  along the coast to Carlisle Bay and moor it there and then we would only have a 30 minute walk to school, but knowing my luck there would be  traffic jam on the water going to school. 

 

I’m off to find out when his school holidays begin in Barbados so I can escape the hellishness of the School run for a few weeks or so, then it’s to the beach for some badly needed relaxation and a wee bit of boogie boarding.


I know the perfect cure for the nightmare effects of the School run and it is a cure all magic potion that goes by the name of Mount Gay rum, which I shall be finishing off the day with a wee glass of this evening, Nothing Beats a Glass of Mount Gay Rum To End the Day.

 

 

September 3, 2008 | Filed Under Barbados Essential Info 

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