Christar Villas Kingston

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Jamaica was my very first missions trip. I went with Shayna and Chad for one week and we had an amazing and eye opening experience. The water was beautiful and we went to ocho rios and climbed the waterfal too-it was so beautiful! We also witnessed poverty and need in ways that we had never seen before. We were able to minister God's love to people but honestly I think we all took away much more from this experience than we could ever give!

... game of dominos which seems like the hardest game ever. They would firgure out who won by what was already played long before i was anywhere near finished with the game. after 30 min of playing i finally won a game and we promptly stopped playing. I finally went to bed around 10 long before the party ended. Which leads me to something i should have talked about while ago. Jamaicans all have gigantic sound systems and most of them play it at all ...

Owdedo everyone, evriting aight here having my first night with the host family. Its pretty exciting they have a beautiful house. Kids running everywhere, Trying to start learning patois but i feel pretty stupid every time i say ...

I got a ride from the airport to the upper town. After check in, I ventured in the city and was soon offered some "stuff". Oh well, no thank you. The Bob Marley museum is quite interesting and probably the only notable attraction in Kingston (other than this feeling of being in a different country).

... so more about that later). Head on into Port Antonio. Gawk at the new courthouse just before town. Stop at the Errol Flynn Marina - it is a BEAUTIFUL centre. I was proud to see something like that in Jamaica. It seh one! Continue to your hotel of choice. End Point: Hotel Mockingbird Hill Arrival Time: ~12:26pm Tank: Still saying full! Car: Dirty Next: Hotel Mockingbird Hill

... I shook his hand, honored to have met such good people, and departed as the rain started to fall on the city. Watching the storm drip down the windows of the bus, I found myself holding back a rush of emotion, momentarily choked up at the idea that a child could see themselves as a source of harm, as deadly to those around them. The experience made me that much more happy to help and to be a part of the Dare to Care effort over the next few months.

... way) unsafe for us to go to the university.  For now, the night sky looks like a rumpled velvet blanket and I can't help but smile at the cheesy grins in our "first day of school" picture and ID cards.  Mom, we took the former for you.  ;)   I love you, guys.  Thanks for being a part of this experience.  I'll be online as much as possible and will be in touch with the group, as a whole, when the skies clear again.   Love, Heather

... girls. He told us that he recently got a loan from the bank to buy his wife a car. Interest rates on car loans are 15-17 %! While in the bank, Martin noticed a sign advertising bank loans - "no questions asked" - at 25.5%! The speed limit on better paved roads in Jamaica is 80 km/hour; on the secondary roads it's 50 km/hr. Roads tend to be winding and busy, so it takes time and patience to travel long distances. We quickly learned how to stop a ...

... kept winding on those throwaway cameras. but there it is. the one picture i didnt get that took a good long paragraph to describe. I'm running out of things to ramble about.. I'm forced to describe non existent pictures. But thats it. Not much, but i did fret about not having film for the duration of our preflight movie. Anyways anyways, the trip was terrific. I'd do it again, for longer, in a heartbeat.