Bergen vs Trinidad

No....let me start off by saying that I'm not really going to compare the two ... just that I WENT HOME!!!! YAY!! ... Its' been so long since I had been home .... well so long being a grand total of 9 months... but its been a long time.
What has changed.
Lots ...
Trinidad has become in my eyes the place where I grew up .. the place I always will call my home .. but now I wonder what madness and true craziness has taken over the place?
Driving.
I don't know if its the fact that people has less regard for the authority, their cars or lives that they insist upon swishing in and out through 3 lane roads. Now let's reveal a really interesting thing. The city I live in in Norway does not have a SINGLE 2 lane highway!. Nope sir ree!  You will get 2 lanes if you are leading off to somewhere else .. but not on a continual highway. Maybe in Oslo. I was not on any majoy highway in Oslo so I can't say for sure. But Trinidad now has miles of 3 lane highway ... and just like the use of the internet ... people have not learnt how to use it.
When there were 2 lanes people just stayed on one side of the road and drove.  Do u know that it is illegal to pass someone on the 'slow' lane? ... Trinis would perhaps pass a cow if that were ever inforced ... and there are sooo many people who did it when it was 2 lanes ... what made them think it would be more orderly with 3? ... The number of times that I was almost scared out of my mind by some crazy MAN swerving suddenly from my left side, swinging out in front of us only to possible come off at the next exit.
I remember after I lost my brother to a road accident, I drove at the speed limit for days! ... and there was hardly anyone who was on the same pace. In fact ... i'm sure it's perhaps DANGEROUS to drive BELOW the speed limit now.
The traffic was amazing .... we did not get into lots of it ... because it was school holidays (well planned there by moi!) but there was still lots .. and I couldn't get over how quickly it would form.
SKYSCAPE
It is really lovely to see Trinidad blossoming into such a bustling place. Everything feels as though its changing ... rapidly. As if I were to come there after 10 years I would wonder if I was in the Trinidad or perhaps Miami ...  Lord.. I hope not ... but someone who has not been here for decades perhaps sees it just as that .. a mini US city. .... only problem is a force ripe one. I love my country ... but I do worry for it.
People 
I'm nearly scared to say it .. but I think the people have become a lot more 'ah doh care oui' ... and that is sad. I look back at all my great trini sayings ... the power that Carnival is in the International scene all because its PLANNED 1 YEAR in ADVANCE and sometimes more .. and wonder how a people who have ONE thing so well organised and down pact as we say .... can screw up so many other attempts.... how does one plan an International Jazz Festival that is supposed to attract the likes of FANTASTIC people .. if u cant get your crap together even3 months before the event? .. How does that spell success? ... It seems to me that the only thing that is a success in Trinidad is Carnival. Everything else seems to make a big ole belly flopp.
Horrible .. yes yes I know .. I sounding like I Bashing ... but I'm really annoyed actually. I see what a little organisation and discipline (or GORM doh get meh started on dat one) can do ... but it drives me nuts that Trinis will sort themselves out OUTSIDE of Trinidad. Its almost as though the country itself has some horrible bug that won't allow Trinis in the land to excell.  Hence our brain drain, talent drain, science drain ... all kindda drain...
TIME
I'm sorry girls .. you KNEW this one wudda come.  Not to say that I am a big ole clock work myself .. I'm not ... far from it .. and boy does the hubby know it! ... But I think I forgot when to start a lime??? .... Or is it just that I had lots of faith in people? dunno .. but it  not working! Anyways .... I tried to start a lime at 12 pm .... maybe I was just being stupid ... but I certainly will not be THAT dumb again ... One wonderful friend who will simply call .. 'de latest latecomer' popped in at 7 pm.  Hardy hardy har .. u might say ... do that in Norway .. people would have had their 'besøk', eaten, drunk, talked had a great time and would have left.  You would find yourself staring at people wondering ... who are u? and what do u want? OH! Hi! .. Yeeeaaaa .. um .... everyone's gone now ... *sweet smile* ... Maybe we can try it again another day.
Yup .... Don't be fashionably late to a norwegian party ... no matter what kind of party.  People arrive at the time u tell them to arrive.   It was actually a bit annoying to me  at first .. I was like ... Gorsh .. not even a 15 min or 30 grace period so? ... 3 pm? BAM ... 3 pm there is a knock on your door ... and don't feel they were not sitting outside in their car .. just waiting for enough time to time their footsteps to your front door!.
Norwegians are sooo good at that tho .. on a side note ... I go to a choir and a beautiful lady lets me come along with her or 'sitter på' and she knows exactly when we will pass my street ... to the minute. I thought it must have been just practice... but one day we picked up another lady further down .. and she got that one right too ... no wonder they are on time ... if I could figure out that kinda thing I wouldn't need GPS system .. now .. would I?
But apart from those 'LOTS' the sun still shines ... people still smile and know how to have a good time .. too much sometimes ... the beach is still popular ... bake and shark still win, and life in the tropics is .... well .... the tropics ...
I love Trinidad ... but I think I am beginning to appreciate Norway more and more for what it is ... and the change it brings into my life ...
Whey yuh say? Change ... is ... good ...