I have reached a new phase in my journey as of this morning. I sat at breakfast and did not even try one bite of fish. I briefly thought about it, and then realized... Who am I kidding? I don't like it. I haven't liked it. I'm not going to like it. Moving on. Went into work today, and had our rescheduled meeting...and that was about all that was accomplished today. It was a big day, and not everyone can handle that sort of pressure and responsibility. Luckily Keith and I are intelligent and we do well under stressful circumstances. [View Full Entry]

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Disclaimer: I spent about an hour writing this entry and just as I was finishing up the last sentence the whole thing dissapeared. This version is likely to be the less witty, although probably more sarcastic run-down of the last three days. So after the raging bloodfest that was the Friday night Cricket game Keith and I decided to lay low on Saturday. I had detailed fantasies of sleeping in until noon, and lavish breakfasts that did not include fish. That is not the real Jamaica. The real Jamaica calls you early in the morning to wake you up from the [View Full Entry]

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If you ever spent your spare time sitting around wondering if I could possibly ever make it big as a professional Cricket player, wait no longer! I am officially the worst Cricket player that ever lived. And Keith isn't too far behind! The game makes very little sense to me. Think bowling mixed with golf and add a touch of baseball...yeah, the confused look on your face is probably something like the one on mine, except I was playing while making that face. (I use the term 'playing' loosely.) Today after work our entire office went to the country directors house [View Full Entry]

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One day on the drive into work a few weeks ago, Rocky told Keith and I that he was a diabetic. He told us how he has a problem with "gas" and that some times he can't control it. Then he didn't say anything else for the rest of the drive to work. I was wondering if that was a story to prepare us for a belch -- but nothing. Hrm. Weird. Yesterday morning we get up, eat breakfast and start heading into work. We get a few minutes from the guesthouse when Rocky lets out a HUGE burp. I siddenly [View Full Entry]

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I went to bed early last night in hopes of sleeping for an extra few hours to make up for the night before. Although I got more sleep it still didn't prove to be too restful. Got up and had breakfast, something with fish -- so disapointed. Went to work. Met with one of the women that runs the child abuse investigation program and found out that this Friday Keith and I are meeting with one of the Police Youth Clubs to talk to them about Disasters and the effects on children and adolescents. I'm excited and nervous. Did some research [View Full Entry]

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I couldn't fall asleep last night. I finally did around 2am and I had horrible dreams. Keith and I got up early to walk down to the ATM, and as we were leaving the guesthouse I realized I'd locked my keys inside my room. So this was the kind of day it was going to be... We ran into Rocky (our driver) parked on the side of the road, we stoped and said goodmorning and continued on our way to the ATM. Came back home and had a great breakfast. Went to work and had a meeting with one of our [View Full Entry]

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This weekend we decided not to travel. I slept in late. I finished my Africa book. I sat outside on the roof-top patio and got some sun. I watched tv. We walked to the market and bought ice cream. They didn't have Drumsticks, sadly. We got fake drumstick ice cream cones. They were not good. And soggy. We walked to Indies across the street for dinner. Our server wasn't there, sadly. We ordered pizza and were told they didn't have any cheese. I ordered chicken and Keith ordered a BLT sub. His "sub" arrived on a hambuger bun (no sub rolls) [View Full Entry]

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So, today is the 4th of July. American Independence Day. That means just as much here as the 19th of October or the 23rd of May. How did Keith and I celebrate? We ate breakfast, went to work, Keith had a shake out of a can for lunch and I didn't put enough water in my Easy Mac before microwaving it so I was left with a dried out solid clump of noodle. I say noodle (singular) because all of the noodles (plural) dried up together to form one hard mass. Then we went to a meeting at the Childrens Hospital, [View Full Entry]

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Get up. Turn on the shower. No water pressure. Call, ask them to turn on the pump. Shower and get ready. Walk with Keith down to the ATM. Come back and have breakfast. Steamed veggies with...fish! What a surprise. I used to love the veggies, but last Friday at dinner I was happily eating the veggies when all of the sudden my mouth caught on fire, i couldn't breath or talk and my eyes started watering. Keith asked if I was okay, and I could only shake my head and choke out a "no." It turns out that an insanely hot [View Full Entry]

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I arrived in Jamaica after flying through Barbados and Antigua, meaning in a five hour period that morning I was in fact on four different Caribbean islands. The Norman Manley airport in Kingston is at the end of a long strip of land jutting out into the sea, with which it is level. This basically means that when the water rises, the sole road to the airport is usually washed out with flights cancelled or changed on a regular basis during the rainy season. Despite a rainy forecast the skies were clear and sunny when I landed which basically put me [View Full Entry]

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