Valley High Villa
Travel Blogs from Runaway Bay
Jamaican Bethel Branch
... games which according to Anica, it can get pretty hilarious. She said the last family recreation night they had, some of the branch coordinators prepared a skit and dressed up as Rastafarians! As outrageous as it was, it only drew everyone closer that they can laugh and joke and blow off steam like a real family.
While walking along the meticulously landscaped gardens and pathways, special attention was brought to detail the scientific significance ...
Ocho Rios Sign Language Group
Beaches are great, mountains are beautiful but the most memorable impressions always come from spending time with our christian brothers and sisters. Tonight was my second meeting visiting the Content Gardens Congregation in Ocho Rios where they host an American Sign Language Group.
My visit to Jamaica, while purely a vacation, has also served the purpose of "spying out the land" so to speak. As I am half Jamaican, I am entitled to Jamaican Citizenship, ...
My First Few Weeks of Work
... Bev) & set out for the day.
Last week I mostly did home visits- basically I'd be driven (or walk) to homes in the area
& meet with people who are shut in or may not be feeling well. One thing I like about home visits
is that not only I get to meet more people that way, but even though they don't have much
material-wise they are always willing to share what little they had. For instance, ...
Spanish Town Part 1
... is never empty and there is always food and a home to share regardless of who you are. Aunt Joyce has spent her life raising and bringing up lots and lots of kids in our family and extended family and to all she is simply "Aunt Joyce" or “Aunt Jice” as it sounds more like with a Jamaican accent.
When we arrived at Aunt Joyce's house the first thing you felt was just how welcoming it was to be there and how much of a home from home it was to everyone else too. As ...
Unda the Caves
... Rather the caves were used for ceremonial purposes.
Legend has it that late one night, two slave sisters, their names forgotten with time, made a daring escape from a sugar plantation and headed for the hills. After days of running through the bushes and climbing some rather rocky mountains, the siblings ended up in Hellshire. There, they discovered the two ancient caves which, though a few feet away from each other, ...