Edge Hill Hotel Kingston

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!

... but then as I was planning it, I thought to take it a step further. I did not want the students to just pet animals but also to learn about animal abuse, which animals make good pets and the proper upkeep of their pets hence the name Educational Zoo. I contacted Jamaica's SPCA and Serenity Park asking them to bring some of their animals to the school and talk to the students about the above mentioned topics. They agreed and on the day of ...

... kinda peeled with only the very outside skin taken off and it was cut in half. Didnt really have a clue what i was supposed to do to eat it. You can try and guess what they told me when i asked. after breakfast i ironed most of my cloths and me and my host mother went to church. I dont really know how to descibe the church i guess the best word would be loud. lots of singing lots of praise jesus lots of halelluja lots of amen, a few voleenters ...

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 ...

... come home and have some curry chicken.  Tomorrow we leave the hotel and go to the town of hellshire for two weeks of training untill we leave for a week long site (where we will serve the rest of our 2 years) visit.  In hellshire each person will be assigned to a different host family and from what we hear from other volenteers it is very awkward.  So i am very nervous about that.  well i guess i am going to go try to upload photos send me an email if you have any questions

... in Jamaica (through the Global Fund and the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative), though, that reality has radically changed. Orphans originally given a "death sentence" with the virus are now being given a chance at life. DTC even recently altered its focus from being a "hospice" for children with HIV/AIDS to a "home" for children with HIV/AIDS. According to the director, the program is only now in a place where wonderful questions like, "How do we transition these ...

... on the authors or cultural subtexts of each novel or poem, and offering assistance when I stumble in Patois. This past weekend, she invited me to a family reunion at her aunt's house. Touched by the invitation, I accepted. At her aunt's home on Sunday evening, cousins, nieces, Rastafarian grandpas and uncles were quick to welcome me into the fold and include me in conversations, piling my plate with steaming goat intestine stew ...

... us will be heading to Bull Bay and the famed Jamnesia Surf Shop this weekend.  Along with providing accommodations for traveling surfers (rooms, tents, etc.), Jamnesia also rents equipment and provides transit to all of the local surf spots ($5/RT bus ticket).  I am very excited about seeing more of the island.  For the most part, our field trips and in-country orientation activi ties have required that we stay within a 3 kilometer radius of our homes.  As we are ...

... some types of fish). Although raised as a black Jamaican, he saw himself as half black and half white. Bob Marley grew up in the gritty Trench Town in Kingston, an area renowned for its poverty and apathy. After achieving success, he purchased the property on Hope Road from his British manager, Chris Blackwell. His wife, Rita Marley, was one of the backup singers for his band, the Wailers. Upon his death from cancer in 1981, Rita Marley established the ...

Woke up early early once again to be bused to Jerusalem and to finish our warehouse project and chill with the kids again. I realize at this point I have not spent nearly enough time describing 'the bus', our raggity but somehow reliable mode of transportation. Each morning and evening we experienced a ...