The Courtleigh Hotel And Suites Kingston

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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!

... kinda peeled with only the very outside skin taken off and it was cut in half. Didnt really have a clue what i was supposed to do to eat it. You can try and guess what they told me when i asked. after breakfast i ironed most of my cloths and me and my host mother went to church. I dont really know how to descibe the church i guess the best word would be loud. lots of singing lots of praise jesus lots of halelluja lots of amen, a few voleenters ...

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 ...

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).

... and deeper sections of the gurgling washes. By morning, everyday, though, the rivers have disappeared. The sugar roads have been reconstructed and smoothed over, and the transit system is ready for the next rush hour. The daily reconstruction of these roads reminds me of the resilience of this country, the "We've lived through centuries of slavery, an IMF-raped economy, political unrest and one hurricane after another. We don't have the money to really fix this ...

... they insisted. "Our nephew is looking for a roommate in London, actually. Perhaps...?" Numbers and emails were exchanged. We've since emailed and seen each other several times. I'm expected for dinner this Wednesday evening. Yesterday, I asked a fellow shopper within the grocery market if she had any recommendations for a wine that would be appropriate for a traditional Jamaican family gathering. "Something sweet," She suggested ...

... Today, during a field trip to several NGO's in Kingston, I had the opportunity to visit an orphanage near downtown.  While there, one child saw my curly hair and took it upon herself to start to dread it.  Another was fascinated with the nail polish on my toes.  While embracing one, another sat on my hip.  It was an incredibly good moment, though brief, and one that saw me back at St. Philip's in Swaziland, spending time with the Thulasizwe, Ndoda, Fanana, Pahty ...

... we had come to Kingston, along with the opportunity to travel into the Blue Mountains. Many tourists to Jamaica do not venture far from the beach. Even very few of the regulars who return year after the year have ever been to Kingston - or come here only if they have to. Kingston (population 600,000), the capital of Jamaica and a major port city, has a bad reputation as a dirty and dangerous place rife with unemployment, poverty and crime. The owner ...

... Paradise awaited us. Our food was boated to us (garlic lobster) and the ocean water was 12 notches warmer than our shower water. Forget working in the US for a year, I'm moving to Jamaica to pick mangoes and drive buses and boats. We did have to leave early from our island, but the trip was lovely nonetheless.