Medallion Hall 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!

... 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 ...

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

... internationally. The volunteers worked from 4 a.m. til the last runner came in which was around 2 p.m. My friends and I worked the starting line giving out Gatorade and water to the runners and then when the race began moved to the finish line to cut the trackers from the runner's shoes and hand out the medals. From this experience, I decided that I want to run in a marthon. So that is one more thing I have added in my To ...

... Each experience feels a bit like prom. It makes me laugh. THINGS I'VE LEARNED FROM THE HALF-WAY MARK: · I will be signing up for Jeopardy as soon as September rolls around. "Slavery and Plantation in the Caribbean, Alex...? How much time do you have? I may need a couple of screens to write my answer." · I spent six hours transcribing a 45-minute interview on Friday after an instructor requested that we do so. This week, she indicated that she didn't need it after ...

... café. Bamboo Bobby stopped in to speak with us and over the course of a 20-minute conversation (revolving around Gustav, his trade, life overseas, barracudas, piranhas, how I was crazy for swimming with Great Whites in Northern California and the comparable friendliness of Nurse sharks), he deemed it appropriate to carve a bamboo bank as a gift for me. When a passing merchant saw him working on the decorative piece, she stopped and asked how much he was ...

... Jamaica people eat bun and cheese during East** time so during those days leading up to East** I had my belly full with the delicious bun and cheese which was off**ed to me by friends and neighbors. It has been five months so I can't say too much about this time mainly because I can't rememb** a lot of what happened but I do hope you all enjoy the pictures and I hope to provide more timely blogs. Olympics 2008 Big up to all of the Jamaican Athletes especially the ...

... that the $53 per person Sunday brunch is worth every penny. Further up the road, we stopped at Holywell Recreational Park where we walked the short Oatley Mountain Trail, a 2 mile, 40-minute circuitous trek through the jungle dotted with air ferns and orchids. This is the off-season and the park was remarkably quiet. We saw very few other tourists, only a group of young people who had been camping in the area over the weekend. We also visited a coffee ...

... Eve to do the bulk of it there. Christmas cake, a rich spicy-sweet plum and fruit cake drenched in rum, is a staple along with mento music, midnight caroling and a years-worth of story-spinning, sooth-saying and truth-telling. Hence, Christmas Day itself is typically billed as a family day and is only outdone by Boxing Day, December 26, the day reserved for frivolity and parties. And everyone tries to catch up on sleep during the work week to be ready for New Year's... We ...