Indies Hotel Kingston

... from the town of Matam, Matam province, who deciding that they could find a better life in the Promised lands of the European Union, sruck out for France thruogh the unforgiving deserts of the Sahara to Morroco where they hope to find them a boat to take them over the Med on their way to France. If there is anyone who would like to corroborate on this ...

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!

Hello All I hope that everyone is well and that the recession hasn't affected you ( badly). My time on this island is winding down, my work is slowing down but I'm still thinking outside the box when it comes to activities to do with my students and the general community. Children + Animals= Trouble My Green Club held and Educational Zoo on January 26, 2009. The Educational Zoo started off as a petting zoo in order to raise money for Green ...

... 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 ...

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).

... into adulthood? What resources do they need to not only survive but thrive on their own?" exist. Formal emancipation services for orphans (regardless of HIV status) are very limited in Jamaica currently. My dissertation will be three-pronged, examining what orphans theoretically need as they age out of residential care, what orphans with HIV/AIDS additionally need as they transition into adulthood, and what emancipation services are already informally in place in ...

... pork, fried chicken, rice and peas. Much like in my family gatherings back home, groupings at the reunion were segregated by age and/or marital status. Tammy and I were at the "Single Women over Eighteen" Table, and the only females without suckling babies in tow. Regardless of the presence of newborns, the mouths of the women rattled with family gossip, unbridled wit, brash expletives, and lightning Patois. It was great. When dinner was ...

... 6 kilometers from the ocean, it has been mildly frustrating to simply know (rather than see) that we have been surrounded by water these past four days.  ;)  This weekend, we will find out for ourselves that we are (indeed) on an island.  Woohoo!  I do have regular access to email at home, so please feel free to write.  It would be great to hear from folks.  I truly hope things are going well for each of you!  I will check back again as time allots. Lots of love, Heather

... Marley Foundation which she runs with their children and Bob's brothers and sisters. Bob was also a Rastafarian, a religion that has its roots in the teachings of fellow Jamaican, Marcus Garvey. Rastafarians are followers of Haile Selassie, the emperor of Ethiopia, whose given name is Ras Tafari Makonnen. Rastafarians believe that Selassie is a direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheeba. The first tenet of Rastafari is the acceptance of ...

... ride that easily surpassed theme park rollarcoasters. Our bumpy rides were complete with nonstop super-loud reggae ditties. We heard reggae versions of EVERYTHING including Sheryl Crow and Aerosmith. The pics from the bus are blurry, I apologize. It was difficult to get the landscape as we were whizzing by.