Christmas Traditions in Guyana
Feeling inspired after reading the article Christmas Traditions in Jamaica I spoke to my friend Elizabeth and found out how they would usually spend Christmas in Guyana. Liz and her husband James are both from Guyana but now calls Trinidad home for the past four years, with their two beautiful daughters, she took some time to share this with me yesterday.
GG: What is the most memorable thing about Christmas growing up in a Christian home (or not) in your country?
Elizabeth: The most memorable thing about Christmas growing up in a christian home was the fact that although we did not have much to go around my grandmother would always take some of whatever she prepared for us and she would have us take portions to old people in the village or shut ins who could not move about. This sincerest of kindness stuck with me through out my teenage and adult years and has instructed the way I view Christmas which is entirely to be a giving and helping hand for those who do not not have.
GG: What's a typical christmas day like (with family and friends etc)?
Elizabeth: A typical Christmas day would be waking up to the smell of “‘pepperpot” on the fire, having devotion with the family in recognition of the reason for the season, Jesus Christ. we would then exchange greetings and gifts and have breakfast. during the day we would call up friends and family especially those residing overseas. The day is usually a restful and quiet one and later in the evening everyone partakes in a hearty lunch during which the family takes the opportunity to reminisce on old time experiences and happenings of Christmases past.
GG: Where did you learn about Christmas really?
Elizabeth: I grew up in a christian home so it was automatic that I would eventually be schooled in the things of Jesus which included his birth, death and resurrection.
GG: What are the typical foods you eat on Christmas day?
Elizabeth: A typical Christmas morning Breakfast would be "pepperpot" and Home made bread with cocoa tea or ginger beer drink. Lunch would take the form of a scrumptious spread of some form of rice probably vegetable rice, baked ham, baked chicken, baked macaroni pie, garden salad and to cool it off some sorrel or ginger beer drink.
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