Friday, 2 March 2012

I'm Proud To Be A Barbadian

I've always loved being an islander and I do love my country for a lot of reasons, but yesterday became the first day I've ever felt national pride on such a level and yesterday also made the day that I will never complain about taxes again. I know they use them to pay for road work and other stuff that makes life better but this one thing changed my entire outlook on taxes. Anyways the BIG-ish news...

I've been accepted to do an undergraduate degree in banking and finance at The University Of The West Indies.

I've been half preparing for this(read: vague plan in mind) but now that it is official, it comes as a major shake up to my life, plans, and goals for the year, especially financially and time related.

There is lots to consider and lots to do, and now more than ever will I need to have a budget. Responsibilities are growing and they weren't fully integrated into my plans.

I have lots of stuff to blog about that's back up in half written post and ideas, also projects I had planned to work on have been delayed. Add this whole university thing and I'm swamped. Not to mention the 90+ post that backed up on me in my reader.

So much to do, so much to do, many plans to make, many plans to modify, all require time.

I almost forgot to mention why the post is titled as it is. It's because as I was reviewing the fees for university, it was made clear to me where a lot of the taxes go. My country's government covers the tuition and economic cost for all nationals which go from $10000+ per year. I could have never afforded this right now without a loan of some kind but because of this; the amount required of me is unbelievably manageable(more will come on this in the future). Of course, this might seem strange but we don't get credits when filing for tax returns like I have seen a lot of you get, our system is a bit different and our country has always promoted "free" education. I'll see if I can do a comparison at some time.

That's it for today. For some other spectacular news, head over to From Shopping To Saving. I'll leave you to be surprised.
Posted by Rafiki at 12:30 pm
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22 comments:

  1. Yay that's amazing! Congrats on being accepted.

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  2. Congratulations! I am very very very proud of you!!!!!!!!! Doing the happy dance for you

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  4. Those are great news! Congrats. That'll definitely help you with the whole job switch process. And that's great about the government helping with paying for higher education.

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  5. Congratulations that fantastic!!! I look forward to reading about your uni adventures

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  6. Congrats! I swear that is one reason I would like to move back to the Caribbean; free/more affordable education.

    However, I must ask, I was surprised you called yourself Barbadian, as opposed to Bajan? I'm Trini but currently reside in the US and always thought the term Barbadian when others said it was "weird" since we grew up hearing the term Bajan. But to see you, a native, identify with that terminology provided me a learning opportunity. :-)

    Congrats Again!

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    1. Thank you and it's pretty amazing and awesome to have a Trini reader.

      As to why I used Barbadian and not Bajan? I am not really sure, I typed that subconsciously; it's just what came to me. If I think about it though, Bajan isn't a term I would use on the international scene unless it was used first. I also think it has to do with school somewhat as you are always taught to use Barbadian and not the the dialect form of Bajan when writing in proper English.

      Trini, Bajan, Vinci are all normal to me but I am not sure how well known they are internationally so I guessed if I used Bajan, I might have had to explain it's short for Barbadian, never thought I would be doing the opposite.

      It really is awesome to know that I have people from the Caribbean family reading the blog. That makes it so much better.

      Thanks for commenting.

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  8. Congratulations!!

    Another anonymous reader (a west indian background as well but born, raised, and reside in Canada) but I've been following your blog for some time. I do hope that although you'll be greatly busy with your studies, you'll continue the blog while you're in school. It'll be great to see your perspective of personal finance as a student and how your life will change as a result of higher education. I wish you much success!! :)

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    1. This is so awesome, another Caribbean relative. I can't tell you how joyous this is.

      You touched on a point that I want to address in a future post which will be about balancing my life when it comes to school, work, this blog and everything else. Your comment did a lot to show me the direction I must take so thank you so much.

      I hope you continue reading, enjoying and learning something.

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  9. Such great news! Congratulations!

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  10. Thank you everyone. It means a lot to have all of you supporting me. I can't call any of you anything less than friends.

    The PF realm has been amazing. Lots to talk about, financially related as well and I hope to get all of your input.

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  11. Rafiki thank you for linking me! Except today's post is not so good news LOL. And that other post that involves you will be up VERY soon, promise!

    Once again, I tweeted you saying CONGRATS but truly, CONGRATS again. That is amazing news and your government is so generous. I would be proud of my country too. I have not so good news on my blog right now but I will pick myself right back up and move on and stay strong.

    I hope you continue to blog while in school of course but I know you will put 100% into your school work and this will be beneficial for you and P. Congrats once again my friend!

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  12. That is awesome!! Congrats! :)

    I wish I could go back to school. I really do miss it.

    Maybe one day I will... :)

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  13. Congratulations!! Exciting things are in the future for you! :)

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  14. This is very exciting. Free education is always nice. It's good to know that all those ridiculous taxes that you pay are helping you out.

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  15. This is amazing!!
    Congratulations!

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  16. Awesome news!! Congratulations!

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  17. Oh here's to new beginnings! Congratulations :-)

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  18. Wahoooooooooo! I'm doing my celebration dance for you right now (it's a bit scary so good thing you can't see it...haha). Congratulations!!

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  19. Congratulations Rafiki! That's awesome! Even more awesome is that it's in banking and finance ;) You're off to a great start!

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