So, just to catch up on the last few days... Keith and I spoke to the woman at our guesthouse and told her what happened when we tried to buy bus tickets to Ocho Rios and she flipped out. Turns out she knows the guy who runs the bus company -- she called him immediately, and told him what happened. We were assured that we would get on the bus Saturday morning without any problems. We get up bright and early, get over to the bus place and get our tickets. The woman that checks us in and gives us our [View Full Entry]

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Get up this morning. Turn on the shower. No water pressure. Don't slip. Ask to turn on the water pump. Get down to breakfast. Pour myself a cup of coffee, pick up the cream container and accidently drop it all over my plate of pineapple, the table, myself and the floor. I'm too tired and hot to react. I sit there dumbfounded. I did this in front of Jeff, 2 other guests and one of the staff. I pathetically mop up the spill with a napkin. I go change my clothes. Not a drop of cream actually made it into my [View Full Entry]

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I get up early this morning -- the earliest I've had to wake up yet. 5:30am. Start showering. No water pressure. Get out, only slip once. Ask for them to turn on the water pump. Get downstairs at 6:30am and our taxi is already waiting. Rocky couldn't meet us this morning so he sent "Double Zero." We start heading to Spanishtown bypass, where we were instructed to head to meet the woman from the Ministry of Health. She said we should call her in the morning on our drive there and she would give us further instruction. I call her as [View Full Entry]

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Get up this morning. Eat breakfast -- get excited because we think its the vegetarian meal (my favorite so far) -- turns out there is fish hiding amidst the veggies. BOO! So dissapointed. Jeff the other guest joins us for breakfast -- he announces that he is moving to Houston, TX. I share how much I hate Houston...(I got stuck there last summer). Rocky arrives early. Go to work. Go downstairs to meet with our supervisor for the Ministry of Health to go with him over to the psychiatric hospital (the only one in all of Jamaica). We arrive and both [View Full Entry]

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Get up early this morning to shower, which I normally do the night before b/c the water pressure is better at night. The water pressure is FANTASTIC! (The best I've seen it since we've arrived!) Put shampoo in my hair. NO WATA. I remember that I'm suppose to call "0" to tell them to turn the water pump on. Get out of the shower -- dripping every where -- nearly slip and break my neck twice walking out of the bath around the room to the phone. Get back in the shower, nearly slipping again. Great way to start the day! [View Full Entry]

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Got up this morning, and had breakfast -- Keith and I decided that it is ground up corned beef and cabbage (it most closely resembles raw ground beef -- which I am a HUGE fan of) -- this is actually the second time we have had this meal, and its one of my top two favorites for breakfast! I try to focus on the flavor not what it looks like. We eat breakfast with the other guest we have become friends with, Jeff (a late 50's American born in Pittsburg, PA that works IT and has spent the last 20 years [View Full Entry]

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So Keith and I decided that living in Kingston isn't enough of an adventure for us...we decided Saturday afternoon to rent a car and just drive east. Now mind you, in Jamaica they drive on the left side of the road, which I have done in Scotland...so we decide that I'll drive and Keith will navigate (using this brilliant $5 map from the rental car place). In an effort to stay out of the reeeaalllyy bad ghetto we decide to take the longer route through the Blue Mountains and then back down to the coast. We did see some very beautiful [View Full Entry]

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Get up early, Clifton will be here between 7:30 and 7:45am to pick us to to be at the office at 8am. He arrives at 7:35am. The woman that runs the guesthouse asks if she can speak with our driver because when he picks us up so early we miss breakfast. We tell her no. Go into work at 8am (as we were told to), and NO ONE is there. Get locked out of the PAHO/WHO office b/c our security badge only gets us through one set of locked doors. Wait until our driver comes in and gets us in the [View Full Entry]

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Let me preface this all by saying, It's been a long day. Got up early and rushed to breakfast to try to eat before our 8:30am pick-up time. Breakfast is running late, and the driver is running early. See a car accident. Get to the office -- go to the Children's Hospital for meetings all day to determine what projects we can work with the Ministry of Health on. Try to figure out where all of the pieces/projects/me/keith fit into everything. It's 3:30pm and Keith and I still have not had breakfast -- so hungry. Talk about food for a while. [View Full Entry]

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Wake up in the morning to take a shower, I get to sleep in 45 minutes later than usual because we are not getting picked up until 9:30 by Clifton. Turn on the shower and hope for good water pressure (this has been a slight issue since we arrived, but I have thus far faired better than Keith) -- decent water pressure -- GREAT! I still have conditioner in my hair -- water pressure drops to a TRICKLE. drop. drop. drop. Nothing. Are you kidding me? I get out of the shower and rinse my hair in the tiny sink. Laughing [View Full Entry]

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