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the calypso pot
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By:
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rohancu2
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Other
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Date:
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04/27/2006 22:19:59
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None
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The Calypso Pot
Through the doors of the Calypso Pot, music fills the twenty feet by twenty-five feet room with fast tempo beats of Caribbean music. A combination of light green colored walls and a deep red brick floor gives one a comforting feeling.
To the left there are three rows of two and a half feet squared tables that are three feet in height. Each table is embossed with its own salt and pepper shakers, and Splenda, sugar and non-dairy creamer packets. One half of the left wall is a glass window, while the other half is a wall adorned with an enlarged postcard picture of the crystal clear waters of Maracas Beach, and another depicting the beautiful scenery of Manzanilla River. At the entrance, to the left corner there is a five foot coconut tree residing in a burnished square flower pot, with an elephant imprinted on the side facing the right wall.
Towards the right, a sixty inch plasma television screen, with a surround sound system attached, displays local West Indian Events, mostly native to Trinidad and Tobago. To the left of the television set hangs a picture of five young women washing their dirty laundry in a creek surrounded by lush vegetation with a few shacks scattered to the rear of the scene. At the right of the screen is a two foot wall map of Jamaican Native Entertainers, dancing on Jamaica?s white sandy shores. Completing the d to the far right corner stands a six foot tall shrub brightly lit with colored blinking string bulbs.
An opening to the right of the Jamaican mat reveals an entrance way to the twenty by thirty feet dance floor, which is usually host to cultural festivities. Each wall is enhanced with its own aspect of West Indian culture. A hand painted mural of the Trinidad and Tobago Coat of Arms beautifies the Northern Wall. Red, black and white flourish in the background of the painting. A brown Cocorico bird and a red Scarlet Ibis stand like pillars to the left and the right of the actual crest. Between the birds are two humming birds joined at their beaks. Underneath the humming birds are the Santa Maria, The Nina and the Pi the three ships that Christopher Columbus discovered the twin islands on. The southern wall teams with scattered chaconia flowers, the national flower of the sister islands. On the eastern wall are immaculate drawings of people dressed in colorful sequined costumes, participating in the famous event known as Carnival. The western wall depicts a man lounging in a hand-made ? Basmati rice bag? hammock tied to two coconut trees.
Walking in to the Calypso Pot gives one a feeling of their true cultural identity. It is a place where people of all denominations are able to interact with out any qualms. If one is in need of a place to remind them of their roots, or reassure them, then they can always look to the Calypso Pot to bring them back to the days without any doubt. The Caribbean-like atmosphere is a style that no other can imitate.
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