Medallion Hall Hotel Kingston

... first literary undertaking with details of the regions here described & the habits & costums of the people Escpecially if you are from Senegal,please get in touch with me at kevinpinto31@yahoo.com. I would be happy to provide regular updates & excerpts of my novel as make progress with my characters & plot so let me just say get in touch.

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 ...

... 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).

... though, it is always an experience to go to a theatre in Jamaica: · The concessionary stand commercials are from the 1970's (and include a cameo of Pepe, the Nacho Cheese Droplet). · Between the previews and the film, the audience is asked to stand to sing the country's national anthem (which is cool). · Intermissions always fall directly in the middle of the most climactic scenes, causing audience members to unanimously yell out/throw popcorn/laugh in ...

... to my topic and to my past work with SwaziHope. I will be creating multiple promotional and educational videos for their cause while in Jamaica, which is very exciting. As I mentioned to my friend earlier this morning, if books were waterproof, I would be strapping them to the surfboards and reading them in the line-up. ;) In lieu of this, I carry them with me everywhere else, tucked in my backpack or back pocket; a nerd, perhaps...but still, a bookworm with a tan. ;)

... to approach the entrance to Hellshire Beach. As we walked past the blown-over Hellshire Beach sign, several teenagers offered to ride us on their handlebars over the lake for an exorbitant price. Despite that ¾'s the length of a football field lay in front of us, we "pshawed", declined their offer, thanked them and rolled up our pant legs. Respect appeared gained. "Okay, stay in line with the telephone pole," they responded. "The rest is too deep." We trekked ...

... Jamaica's easternmost parishes. As we wove our way through the mountains, the serenity of the countryside was instantly calming. The air was fresh and cool; the vegetation was thick, wild and oh, so green. Much of this area is uninhabited and/or inaccessible by road. Dalwin (we found it hard to call him Skidell, knowing the connotation of the word) was familiar with this area because he had lived on the edge of the mountains in a little place called ...

... letters, packages and all manner of support and encouragement that has sustained us, logistically, emotionally and spiritually, during our first six months here in Jamaica. We have been busy, working hard and playing some too. Living here, walking down the country lanes riding the buses and taxies gives one a rather unvarnished window into this island. Through the kindness and patience of our neighbors and friends, we continue to take baby steps toward integration. Living ...