another year has passed… i am now 26. it just seems the years are flying by without much control. i recently finished my two year stint in the bushes of jamaica. i am trying to stay sane and re-adapt back … Continue reading →
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the past two years have been a fully realized and enjoyed blur… i have learned many valuable lessons throughout my two years in jamaica; most of which took place in and around my community. it took some effort and initiative, … Continue reading →
it’s bizarre to think that everything will be completely different in 3 weeks and 5 days. i will no longer be able to look out and see beauty around me, hear the sweet sounds of children , or breathe in … Continue reading →
every weekend finds the guys of john crow hill working together.. for the past couple of months it has been to fix the road, which has remarkably improved from their dedicated efforts. this weekend everyone congregated to help cleeve build … Continue reading →
5:00 am, put on coffee, packed my toothbrush, and eventually i stumbled down the hill, through the darkness, with my bags. as i passed francine’s gate, i ran into brusha and he laughed as he took up one of my … Continue reading →
so, the cos conference… i can’t believe it actually came and went. how have two years flown by so rapidly? it seems only yesterday we were training and being sent to our sites… now we have to start planning our … Continue reading →
today is robert nesta marley’s birthday. so in remembrance, iriefm has been playing bob marley from early his morning, recounting his life and significant mark on the world. mr. bobby, your words still impact the world, even more so with … Continue reading →
this was the week of the week-long dead yard… mape’s grandmother recently passed away and in conjunction, the guys up the bush decided enough was enough and the week before they began clearing out the narrow, overgrown pathway into a … Continue reading →
the day of the much talked about garden party had finally arrived. i had woken early to clean and look after some coffee.. i kept heading back to the couch to catch some warmth as the night before had brought … Continue reading →
marie and i had talked about hitting the road monday night… all of us ended up heading to mobay for a nice time. we had heard from yanique that pier-1 was going to be having a big party, wifey and … Continue reading →
christmas eve was spent hanging out at the bus stop with carl, kat, joshie, curtis and austin, who had just flown down wednesday. when austin and i showed up we found them sitting around, listening to country songs on the … Continue reading →
from early morning asha had come over and we looked about coconuts… or i should say i looked about the coconuts and she watched and criticized. i was proud to walk away with two dry coconuts; she was less than … Continue reading →
this afternoon was spent measuring every square inch of marie’s bathrooms to calculate total surface square footage to determine how many tiles are needed to retile the entire bathroom. asam quickly self-assigned himself my sidekick and wanted to help me … Continue reading →
wednesday was our school’s day of class parties. we had been collecting money for about a month to raise funds for food and the such, to give the kids a proper good time before the holidays. marie and i ended … Continue reading →
saturday evening was selassie and asam’s school christmas concert… originally i had been told we weren’t to head out till 5, then the morning of, marie told me we would have to head out at 2. randy came for all … Continue reading →
today was peace corps jamaica’s newfound venture, volunteer day. the office closes and the staff break off into teams of two to visit volunteers across the island. i was a lucky chosen volunteer, along with a few others… ann and … Continue reading →
friday evening i made my way down to marie’s yard, waiting for everyone to convene so we could head out for our long anticipated girls’ weekend out. we had originally planned on spending the weekend in ocho rios, but due … Continue reading →
saturday afternoon i headed out to parade to catch a ride to town, en route to caudwell. the journey from seaford to caudwell is a lengthy one: first you catch an hour long bus ride to montego bay, another hour … Continue reading →
tomas brought in a cold front when it sideswiped us and from this the weather has gotten pleasantly cooler. this weekend has been nothing short of sublime, chilly enough at night for a sweatshirt. also because of this sudden change … Continue reading →
this past week was met with a dead yard, funerals and tomas. there was a mix-up with the scheduling of the dead yard for our vendor’s partner who had recently passed… we went the night before, tuesday, which was supposed … Continue reading →
it’s amazing how in an instance, a blink of an eye, your entire life as you know it can suddenly change; sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worst. this past week there were quite a bit of deaths … Continue reading →
today was pandemonium. children running around. children running around, ripping their belts off and licking one another. children running around, carrying massive tree branches from the recently knocked over almond tree, and hitting one another about the head… this was … Continue reading →
road trip full of flooded roads, lengthy detours, quick visits, unexpected gatherings of people, … we waited hours for sarge. he wasn’t answering his phone. we tried everyone and nothing. so we made our way to lambs river to hunt … Continue reading →
i woke up in the wee hours of tuesday morning to the sound of a waterfall outside my window. it was raining uncontrollably. i fought desperately to get back to sleep because i would soon have to wake up for … Continue reading →
it was literally decided saturday morning at 9am, while sitting on my veranda, drinking coffee, talking to jess, that i would meet up with them at 11am in sav-la-mar and make our way together to treasure beach. i jumped into … Continue reading →
it was a long week indeed. i had some past students come look for me all week. they all look so grown up in their new school uniforms and they all carry themselves a bit differently, heads high and confidence … Continue reading →
this weekend was non-eventful and low-key. asha came over and we caught up on life over bread and jam. we then played phone tag with jessie and i got the run down on life, the dorms, and study hall. we … Continue reading →
i am back in jamrock. my family waved at me for 15 minutes straight as i waited in line at the security check, then when i turned around i had lost sight of them and it was back to reality. … Continue reading →
it’s the night before i head back to life as i know it in jamaica. it has been a nice visit back.. i was thrilled to have the time to catch up with my family, as well as see some … Continue reading →
spent all of tuesday quizzing my brother about everything and anything regarding medicine. we headed out to tampa that evening to stay the night so he could reach his testing center at 7 am sharp the next morning. my parents … Continue reading →
i just got back from miami… i headed down last friday to catch up with some friends and attend the 4th annual genova reunion (the first one i had ever been able to attend). friday, minutes within reaching miami, i … Continue reading →
i landed safe and sound yesterday… ricky, marie and rocksan carried me off to the airport yesterday morning. i bid farewell to everybody, reassuring them i would soon be back in action. it was an emotional farewell with enough hugs … Continue reading →
heading foreign tomorrow morning. i’ll be gone 2 weeks time, getting back in just enough time for the start of school. these past couple weeks of summer break have been great… i thoroughly enjoyed my down time. it was much … Continue reading →
my other host brother, ricky, who lives foreign just arrived last week and will be here for a few weeks. it has been a long awaited arrival, as the dates kept changing and everyone was bracing for his homecoming. he … Continue reading →
independence day john crow hill crew style. all of my neighbors and host family hired smiley’s coaster for the day… with enough cooked food and rum punch in tow, we made our way out to negril to spend the evening … Continue reading →
i ended up volunteering my services to NEPT this weekend at the denbigh agricultural show. melissa was a bit distraught after she learned it was going to be just her running her office’s venue. so as i had no plans, … Continue reading →
just finished a week long peace corps conference… all of group 80 was reunited in mandeville. it was horrible timing as i ended up having to cancel my last week of summer school, because of last minute planning on the … Continue reading →
family day at the beach. i woke up, showered, put some coffee on the stove and eventually headed down to marie’s and tried to make myself useful as they had been cooking from early. rice and peas, fried chicken, fried … Continue reading →
started washing just after 9am this morning and didn’t finish until around 11am. nuf wash. as i put the clothes on the line to dry i realized i was being bombed by ackee from above… asha. she had been collecting … Continue reading →
the long awaited 16th birthday bashment for shanice went down friday night… the night before was mad prepping filled with cooking and cleaning; the house was bustling with life… people, music, children, laughter, … half of the john crow crew was present, preparing the meat and drinks. we had to make some emergency runs for [...]
it’s week two of summer school… i feel i’m running a bit ragged, but i did get to catch up on some rest this weekend. the heat hasn’t been so much of a help mixed with the stored up energy of the kids, who, for the majority, prefer to run around and chat instead of [...]
tonight was faced with much nostalgia. after a long day of summer school and a victorious spanish win over germany, i headed home tonight to relax, but instead found myself wanting to catch up with old friends. it’s always with mixed emotions i call friends because it’s bittersweet…. i am thrilled to reconnect and get [...]
this past weekend was the final of the sunday football matches.. rat trap vs. lambs river. days before i had watched both the anguishing match with shanice, chubby, keira and yanique between argentina and germany, which left me repeatedly asking, “but, why???” and the heroic match between holland and brazil… which left them asking, “but, [...]
i present to you the seafood town all age school’s graduating class of 2010. it is with much joy and pleasure i get to proudly boast that all of my grade six students passed the national gsat examination and all will be attending high schools this upcoming school year. what a year. it flew by [...]
my friend mayra came to visit me this past week. she flew into kingston tuesday, made the trek on the knutsford express safely to montego bay, where i met her with rocksan and marie. i had spent the morning working on my students’ graduation program and trying to catch live updates of the brazil vs [...]
i spent friday in lucea at chez liza.. catching up with her and jess. we spent the afternoon chatting away and the night found us stalking the world cup country teams. we headed to bed in the wee morning hours and so began the war against the vicious mosquitos which inhabit her house. somehow i [...]
i am now a quarter of a century old. damn. life has flown past me as i’ve gotten up in age. seems like when i passed from high-school everything accelerated. i don’t quite understand what happened through that transition? i look back to when i graduated university. it feels like a year ago, if that. [...]
Soldiers and police yesterday launched a bloody offensive on Tivoli Gardens where heavily armed thugs barricaded themselves to protect the mini-republic of a reputed crime overlord, causing street battles to ripple across Jamaica’s capital. At least three members of the security forces have been slain in gunfights and 14 others injured in two days of [...]
Violence rocked sections of the Corporate Area all day yesterday, as armed men brazenly took on the security forces in a sustained attack on police stations in anticipation of the apprehension of Tivoli Gardens don Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke. Four police stations came under attack; a civilian succumbed to gunshot wounds during an assault on the [...]
i took part in my first jamaican wedding this weekend. my friend stephanie was the bride. we hosted her bridal shower the night before… little sleep was actually obtained. at some point there was christmas music blasting through the speakers… but nobody could manage to turn it off. morning came too soon. and so began [...]
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