My name is Wendy Ann Thomas and I love to take out my picture with Trini celebrities; even minor ones like BC Pires.I'm from Diamond Vale but I'm now down to the water wheel side. I'm living Diego all my live and I've never been to Blue Basin. I guess because of the violence. Not even when I was small.My teachers at St Martin's Girls' School in Belmont were like parents in school, they took so much interest in the children. Now you lucky if they come to school.
My family history is pretty complicated. When I was 11, I found out I grew up with foster parents. It was shocking but I was a happy-go-lucky person and I was glad to find out. I never met my biological parents. I'm curious now. But I don't know where to start to look for them.My foster parents were my mom and dad. I have a brother who grew up with foster parents, too, so we know one another from small, but I grew up as an only child. We don't know if we have any more siblings outside.
I have three children, two boys and a girl. One is Jeremy John, he is 17 and lives with his dad. The other one is Renaldo McEachnie, 11. And my daughter, my little gem, is Renisha McEachnie, 9. I live with their father.I believe children need two parents but I would not let homosexuals and lesbians marry. Me, personally, I don't like that.
You small, you growing up, your parents christen you Roman Catholic. You really don't know what is going on and you have no say. In teenage life, in my 20s, I'm not bashing the Catholics, eh, but, to me, it was not right. So I stop practising that Catholic faith. So, right now, I'm nothing, just neutral. My children go to Anglican church. I tell my children God will answer everybody prayers.
I went blonde for the Carnival. My hair was red-and-gold the week before. I change my hair colour all the time. I've had purple, orange. Years aback, I started going with colours. Could have been six-seven years now.I'm always on my laptop if I'm at home.I listen to Conscience, a dancehall artiste. He's not vulgar at all.
Taking out pictures with Trini celebrities came about when I started to work at the newspaper in 2011. The first person I took a picture with was Bunji Garlin. He came in to one of the radio stations, or the TV station, and I saw him. I told the security guard, any time Bunji come down them stairs, make sure and call me. So she did. I always catch the celebrities when they either going up or coming down the stairs. From the time my colleagues see me jump up with my phone or my camera, they know Wendy going to take out a picture.
I've gotten pictures with Bunji, Shurwayne Winchester, Kes, David Rudder, so much o' them. Nadia Batson. I got one with Conscience. I have one with Isasha and King David, when they came in together. I have a whole folder! It's a lot!The best part of doing it is taking the picture. I does light up. I really do. Then you can look back at it later and say, "Yes!" When I show my colleagues and friends, they say, "Oh, gosh, Wendy, you always in the right place at the right time". The bad part is if they let me down and say no.
To me, a Trini is a person who always in some bacchanal, no matter what it may be. Curfew? A party! Coup? A party! They lost they job A party! Anything where a Trini concern must have a party. And I am part of that. Because I love a party.
Trinidad and Tobago, to me, means a very patriotic place. I love Trinidad because we really do anything that we want. You go anywhere else and cough too hard, they might give you a ticket. We could walk down the road and watch somebody with a pants with a different colour shirt, take a little laugh, and that's it.