Jamaica Palace Hotel Port Antonio

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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!

... dont really know what im doing this weekend, going to spend most of it with the host family. Ill try to take pictures and post them on a reall website soon, hopefully ill get some of this house but i need to ask the host family first.

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).

... of her, it was more of the general place itself). As I have noted before, Jamaica is not the friendliest place on earth. Back at the Mikuzi, a couple we had seen at the Kingston Mikuzi arrived and were in the room next door to us: Suzanne and Arthur. Suzanne was from London and had taught English and ESL in high school and then at King's College. She also taught in Jaipur, India for six years. Arthur was an retired American from New York who has spent ...

Finally after an 11 hour flight - made it to Kingston!! Was scary to get here in the dark (with nowhere to go) but helpful airport staff directed me to cabs and a posh hotel - where I find myself now. Jamaicans look much friendlier in the daylight. It feels like it is about 40 degrees in the shade ...

Here for only a few hours, enough to observe is was RELAXED, humid and that 3 hours was only just/maybe enough time to get off 1 plane and get checked onto another one. Departure procedures were scarily chaotic with people's bags taken from them prior to checkin - I have no idea how they managed to get the right luggage onto the right plane but they did...

... the opportunity to try and qualify for the tournament, the US baseball champions each year are rather confusingly labelled world champions. The first official baseball world cup took place in California in 2006, it was contested by 16 teams and won by Japan, with Cuba in 2nd and the other semi-finalists Korea and the Dominican Republic. The US team did enter and contained major league players but didn't get ...

... of us in the car, and the rest of the trip was tense and silent. Once we got to our friends cabin in the woods, though, we were all able to relax. The best part of the whole trip was the amazing view of the WHOLE of Kingston from this quaint little cabin in the woods. The dichotomy between where we were (middle of nowhere Jamaica, lush and green) and what was laid at our feet (beating heart and soul of Jamaican culture/violence/crime/politics/music) was overwhelming ...

Old Harbor Bay, Jamaica July 17, 2004 Peace Corps Training "Wha-Gwann?" - What's going on? Well, eventually you knew you would hear from us. Peace Corps has kept us extremely busy. However, the schedule is beginning to slow down just a little bit. It is hard to imagine this all began July 6th in Miami, FL and we've been in country for a little over a week now. Our orientation at the University of West Indies in Kingston was about four days long ...