I’m in Jamaica, mon!!
So the past two days have been information-filled and long. We’ve been going over important topics and policy, such as safety, medical and movement around country.
They have also been fun. We had a group dinner last night. They served ‘rice and peas (red beans)’, jerk chicken, escoveitched fish, potato salad, and some type of vegetarian entree. It was all delicious. We had the same thing tonight for dinner.
This morning we had our official Peace Corps welcome. They had a local performing arts group come and sing some songs. I recorded them to my camera and just have to figure out how to post them to this blog…I may have to create a youtube account to post them on youtube and link them on this blog.
The people in my training group (we are group 80!) and the staff at Peace Corps Jamaica are wonderful and extremely nice. We are divided into three volunteer programs: Green Initiative (which I’m a part of), Youth as Promised, and Community Education in Health.
Tomorrow we leave to start our community-based training, where I will meet my host family for training in Hellshire.
I’m going to try to post pictures to my Flicker account (and link on here) hopefully in the next week or two…depends on whether I’ll have internet access at my host family’s house.
Hey Women! Glad you made it there! Be careful! We miss you already!
Hey!
We miss you. Could you post a map so mom can know where Hellshire is? I took the job in DC…housing is going to be a bitch to pay for though. I should be writing a paper, but wanted to tell you everything is going well.
Love you!
I’m counting on you to learn the art of Jerk Chicken and teach me when you get back!