The count down continues
… down to 30 days now before I leave the comforts my Pt Richmond condo…which by the way is rented..
From some you that received my first count down note… the reaction was one of excitement and encouragement…but for others it was … where the heck is Suriname?? To start with… Suriname use to be called Dutch Guyana, located in the north east section of South America. It’s a little country, about the size of the state of Georgia, with a population of approximately 450,000… which is about as many people as I had on my block back in Brooklyn. I’ve been trying to come up with some similarities between New York and Suriname…believe it or not there are two ( a bit of a stretch) …both were Dutch colonies at one time. In fact the Dutch, after a war between the Dutch and the British back in the 1700’s, gave the British New Amsterdam for Suriname…now what does that tell us about the Dutch. But, then again, ole Peter Stuyvesant only paid $24.00 worth of Wal Mart beads for the Island.
Number two…the largest city and capitol of Suriname is Paramaribo and like the Big Apple, it sits at the mouth of a large river… the Suriname River. But, unlike the Hudson River, that runs north to south (like most of the rivers in the US), Suriname Rivers run south to north. This, plus the fact, that when traveling south the ocean will be at my back not on my left as it was when you live in New York or on the right, which took time to get use to when I moved to Californian. But, I think I’ll catch on to this well before I catch on to the Dutch language..
What else have I learned about my new home for away from home…the same thing you can learn by doing a Google search. So …I’ll just wait until I get there to give you a Brooklyn Boys impressions of a country… where the rivers run in the wrong direction and the ocean is out of position.
… down to 30 days now before I leave the comforts my Pt Richmond condo…which by the way is rented..
From some you that received my first count down note… the reaction was one of excitement and encouragement…but for others it was … where the heck is Suriname?? To start with… Suriname use to be called Dutch Guyana, located in the north east section of South America. It’s a little country, about the size of the state of Georgia, with a population of approximately 450,000… which is about as many people as I had on my block back in Brooklyn. I’ve been trying to come up with some similarities between New York and Suriname…believe it or not there are two ( a bit of a stretch) …both were Dutch colonies at one time. In fact the Dutch, after a war between the Dutch and the British back in the 1700’s, gave the British New Amsterdam for Suriname…now what does that tell us about the Dutch. But, then again, ole Peter Stuyvesant only paid $24.00 worth of Wal Mart beads for the Island.
Number two…the largest city and capitol of Suriname is Paramaribo and like the Big Apple, it sits at the mouth of a large river… the Suriname River. But, unlike the Hudson River, that runs north to south (like most of the rivers in the US), Suriname Rivers run south to north. This, plus the fact, that when traveling south the ocean will be at my back not on my left as it was when you live in New York or on the right, which took time to get use to when I moved to Californian. But, I think I’ll catch on to this well before I catch on to the Dutch language..
What else have I learned about my new home for away from home…the same thing you can learn by doing a Google search. So …I’ll just wait until I get there to give you a Brooklyn Boys impressions of a country… where the rivers run in the wrong direction and the ocean is out of position.
posted by Robert B. at 5:02 PM
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