A Journey Into The Past

Many years ago, the people lived a very hard life. It is nothing compared to what we have now. Our life is made easy by countless electrical supplies and oppurtunities that we are offered. For the people back then, it was even hard for them to go to school. A lot of them didn't know how to read or write. The only language they knew how to speak was theirs. No English or Creole. Life was hard for both men and women, in its own way.
The men had to go to thier farms as early as 4 a.m. They usaully walked for about hour and a half to two hours. The women had to wake up every morning earlier than the men to prepare their breakfast and lunch. When they were through, they bagan with their daily duties. It would seem that waking up early and doing thier chores would mean that by the afternoon they would be finished with everything, but it wasn't so. They always did other things like sewing or embroidery or they made baskets and things out of clay.
Having kids was one of the things that I guess they couldn't control. Haha..... They had one almost every year. Traditionally, they waited two years after their marriage to have their first child and another two before the second and so on, but I guess they couldn't keep up to that. A kid's life was not what we are used to neither. Most of the time, the father forced them to go to farm with him, even the mother. The children barely went to school.
The girls usually got tired of what they go through and they wished that someone would come to ask their hand in marriage. Little did they know that having a husband was worse than living with their parents. If they didn't get beaten at home, then they surely got it at the hands of their husband, especially if they didn't do what they were supposed to.
My father always told us how it was when he grew up. He wasn't my grandfather's favorite and he suffered more. More than once he made him walk home from the farm with a big bundle of firewood on his back. And that was like a two hour walk without stopping to rest. By the time he grew up, he went away. It was like that for most of the boys. They always ran away from home because they grew tired of the way they were treated and were convinced that life out there was hard too but better.

to be continued