Hellshire, Jamaica
Friday, March 27, 2009
Had a pretty normal last couple of days if that's at all possible. A lot of class! Its actually getting in the way of a lot of things they have asked us to do with our host familys. The only time I have to socialize with people other than peace corps is at night when you cant go outside alone and a few hours on weekends. I was looking through the schedule and it looks like I don't have any chance to go to the market or probobly ride on a bus or taxi. Which are probobly two of the most important things I need to know so I don't get ripped off buying food and getting transportation. It was nice to talk to my family and know that they are just as upset as I am if not more. I am getting better at understanding the patois...a little, but I am not very good at speaking. I said some words to brooks on the phone and she said I sounded australian. A guy here whos host dad and him just sit around playing cards and listening to his one cd of bob marley on repeat is picking it up pretty well. I think that might be b/c the only thing he hears at home is patwa. Yesterday we went to the ministry of health and port royal.
Port Royal is where all the pirates including black beard and captain morgan are from. During an earthquake back when there were still pirates half of the city fell into the city. The jamaicans were talking about some guy who was swallowed up by the earth and then spit out unharmed. We also saw morgans resturant or something where Dr. No was filmed. After that we meet with some people at the ministry of health. They gave a power point presentation on health problems in jamaica esspically aids. After that we went home and got stuck in kingston traffic. The best part of the trip was that I got to sit next to one of the language teachers so she could point stuff out to me and answer some questions. She also had pictures of ussain? bolt on her phone b/c her cousin is on the olympic track team. Afterwards I came home and got dinner didn't do too much afterwards. Today I woke up early and went running and other than that had a pretty boring and uneventfull day.
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exciting
I expect you to be fluent in patois by the next time i see you lol. Do they all speak patoi a lot or do they mostly speak english but speak that at the home? or is there no english?
sidenote
Your patois is getting better.
yay!
You are learning so much! I'm so proud of you!
You are going to be to smart when you get back. This might be a problem.
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I missed your call today at like 11 and was really sad. Call me back.
We won our race against NC (our rivals). It was pretty epic. The 2V was the only boat to win their race.
I played wario ware on the way up to our race yesterday too. I hope you're having fun! It's cloudy here :(.
Miss you.
howdeeeee
Nice pics.
I had a dream the other day that I was playing my guitar and you were trying to play the spoons but instead of holding them so they clicked together you were just hitting your leg and making no sound. Then we went outside and were sitting in lawn chairs on the sidewalk drinking and a cop came up and yelled at me about my taillight being out (still have not replaced it).... hahaha
brown lake
let me know when you find Alcoa's brown lake. I want pics!