Hotel Sandhurst Kingston

Let me be honest with you all this isn't about any great adventure i've had or even will had but perhaps may very well have a trip to the desert land of senegal. You see dear reader i'm embarking on a literary adventure regarding the land & people of Senegal with a book titled " Walls of Jericho" a narrative of the perilous journey of a group of ...

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!

... why to me and i couldnt really figure out why since there was a guy smoking illecit substances in the corner of the party. I think it has to do with jamaicans associtating themselves as either christians or not. As far as i can tell not being a christian isnt bad as long as you dont expect to get a important job like a teacher. All the volenteer have recommended that if you do drink do it somewhere other than your community. I also had my ...

... 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

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).

... 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 ...