My name is Sandy Ramdeo and I'm a customer sales representative at an airport car rental firm.
I'm originally from Wallerfield but I live Arima now. I lived in Wallerfield probably four to five years. Then we moved from there. Then we just keep moving around and around. We're stabilised right now in Arima for the last five years. I grew up in Wallerfield with my grandparents.And a lot of my cousins. Each house was family. It was nice but it could be crowded at times and push come to shove. Fights.
My brother is a year older than me and then I have a sister who is 18, I'm guessing, and a baby sister who is five years this year. I'm the big girl in a little way. I'm not much in size. I'm the smallest in the whole of the family, including aunts, uncles, cousins, everybody. My mother was my size when she got married and had two children so they say I followed her. I have cousins who's like, 12, and they bigger than me. Not a problem for me. I like my size.
I'm working, I'm 21, and big adults asking me if I get lost from primary school and end up in the airport.
I went to Arima Hindu School. Then Five Rivers Hindu School. Then Curepe Junior Sec and then Bishop Anstey East. I went to school because I had to but I'm not a school person. It was never interesting for me. I'm not the booky type. Not at all. University was never for me. I started working from age 17. I used to do any and everything, just for the experience of it.
I don't think I'm a settled person yet. I don't have a pinpoint direction as to what I want to do as yet. I still have a little time again to try to figure it out. Eventually, I'll get there. We celebrate everything Divali, Christmas, Eid, small-small, just do the normal everyday. But the Hindu festivities are the ones we really celebrate. If I had to choose between Christmas and Divali from a cultural side, I'd take Christmas. You have more colours, more vibes, parang. From a religious side, it would be Divali.
I believe in reincarnation. I think I might have been a bird in a past life. Or a butterfly. Something that flies. Anything I do, I aim for the highest I could go. People tell me, "You're like a little bird!" I've been this size from ten, 11 years old. The only difference is probably I wear make-up. I probably wore my first bra at around 15, 16. That's about the only thing that lets people know, a little, that I'm a grown-up. Coming out of Bishop, I realised people were looking at me different, not just as a little girl. I started getting male attention. It was kinda weird. To have somebody look at you means they like what they seeing. It's a good and a bad thing at the same time.
Beauty comes from inside. I really think so. But a low-cut neckline doesn't hurt. Neither short skirts.
I eat anything and everything. Curry, Chinese food, anything. It may not look so, but I eat every day, whole day. You'd be shocked. I'd eat for you now and, give me two hours, I ready to eat for you again. I used to be vegetarian when going to temple. But, now, I don't think I could make. It don't full you. You need something solid. I used to take swim classes at Curepe Junior Sec So I can swim to save my life. Save anybody else's own? No!.
I'm in a four-year relationship. I'd love to have children but when I could, not now. I'd like to have my first at 28. I like cats over dogs. Kittens are so sweet and cute. I had one. I'm not sure if he got bounce or ran away. Is two I had and one went missing after a flood and the other one like he went to look for him and neither of them came back. I cried for them. The white one was Kitty and the black one was Blackie. The names wasn't so original but they used to come when I call them.
If I wasn't myself, I'd want to be my mother. She has a personality that's warm, always has a smile on her face. When she vexed, she boof you, but two minutes later, she come and love you up. Our work entails dealing with customers, cars, lot of accounts, writing whole day, data entries and customer service. You always quote customers the price range, tell them the requirements to get a car. You always screen customers. Some people will try to outsmart you. You have the right to refuse a customer a vehicle.
You could never tell what a customer will use a car to do. When they don't have contact numbers, it's an immediate alert. You take them to the car park, let them check the vehicle. They always want you to take down the scratches. "Make sure you get that dey!" Then you come back inside and do what you have to do. The best part of my job is interacting with the customers. The bad part is the hours you need to work. Sometimes you at the airport from six in the morning to three. If not, is three till midnight. You don't get chance to run up Arima and pay your bills. Other than that, I love doing my job every day.
You can pinpoint a Trini anywhere from the time you ask them a question and they say, "Eh?" A visitor will say, "Pardon me" or "Excuse me?" Never, "Eh?" Trinidad and Tobago is my homeland. People would say they wish they could leave, but I've been here for the past 21 years and I'll stay here for as long as I could.
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