Blogs from Jamaica, Central America Caribbean - page 22

So, the Robin's Nest board decided at their recent meeting that it is now going to be mandatory for long term volunteers, like myself, to go through training before they come. This means I'm not going to be in Jamaica at the Nest from May-September after all! I'm really sad that I don't have another five months with the kids, staff and our community and the students in our small church youth group. I think God is allowing my heart to be protected though. I am going to try to visit this summer, and hopefully go to camp with the church kids! I only have two weeks left of life here... at least for now... After I found out about this new change, I applied on greataupair.com just to see about going to Europe for a ... read more

I know that's a really weird blog title, but my bathroom is infested with mosquitos, and I have become the queen of killing them and I was just so surprised when I saw mating mosquitos on the wall. Anyways. Matthew is home...did I write that in my last blog?...and he is doing much better. I know...I still haven't written much about him on here.n If I didn't explain it much before, I'll just tell you now that he began to die in the hospital awaiting test results proving his need for bowel obstruction surgery and then after surgery and all of that, he was home for 9 days and I took care of him 95% of the time, which was great and tiring but mostly great but also heart-wrenching and then had to go back to ... read more

Well. I should post something about the Matthew situation...I will probably just copy and paste emails I've already written about him. I'm making falafel and hummus right now, but decided to post a lil entry while the batter was soaking. Today is a wonderfully mellow Saturday. Thank you to anyone who has donated. Sometimes, I don't know who is donating, how much, or when, so this is a general thank you to anyone who has helped with money. Please pray for everyone's health, for looming adoptions, for hospitalized Matthew...for our special needs kids I was burnt out in January. February was healing, learning to discipline myself to take better care of myself...and then I was blessed by getting to take care of Matthew all the time. It just hurts so bad when he suffers...bowel obstruction surgery ... read more

Hey all, Jamaican lifestyle is very relaxing! sitting in the sun all day sipping on cocktails, the tempreture of the water here is hotter than the pool! Couple of days ago went to the Duns river falls, got to climb up the 800feet of waterfalls was awsome, also becuase it was free, we got a dvd made of our trip up the falls, so i will be sending that home for all to see, might even try put it up on youtube. We arrived at our other resort yesterday, awsome place, no little shit head kids here like at the other resort! more people our age which is good. We went to Margaritavile last night, the most popular club/bar in Jamaica, it has a waterslide in it that goes into the ocen below! preety cool! Today ... read more

Hey, we got into jamaica last nite, flights where delayed two hours so didnt get in till around 10pm, as soon as we got off the plane, the guy that was taking our bags asked us if we wanted to buy drungs, and in the past 12 hours every local we have seen hastels you to buy some! and doesnt belive us when we say no! the bad news was, our hotel had mantainance in our room so we couldnt stay there, the good news was they transfered us to a new hotel, twice as expensive, and twice the size with its own nightclub! dont have to pay any more, plus paying for us to do a water fall tour, and taxis into the night clubs when we want! so worked out good in the end! ... read more