Jul 31 2006
Archive for July, 2006
Jul 27 2006
Miss Lou gaan home
Miss Lou, Louise Bennett the poet laureate of Jamaica, keeper of Jamaican culture, storyteller and cultural ambassador the epitome of all things good about Jamaica has died.
She was a constant part of my life growing up watching her on TV seeing her on the stage and listening to her on the radio. She made me proud of my culture and heritage, proud to talk like a Jamaican, proud to tell the stories of our culture (all those Anansi stories ) to my kids.
lawd bles her and keep her an mek him face shine pon she an giv her peace.
Walk good fi tru Miss Lou walk good.
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Jul 08 2006
more pistons heartache
Well I hope Pistons GM Joe Dumars has something big up his sleeve, because watching Ben Wallace leave the Pistons and breaking up the most succesful starting five in years is a big blow. See this
http://www.nba.com/news/305747.html
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Jul 06 2006
blogging from the island of jamaica
Well this is the first chance I’ve had to blog from our mission trip to Jamaica. We have 19 people (14 adults and 5 kids from 5-17) staying at hte Immaculate Conception Convent. Hostel. It has been about 86-95 degrees here every day. At least that’s what it feels like and they use celcius so I haven’t been good with the conversion. But we have a pool we can use in the evening to cool off.
So far wehave had four busy days. Scapring and painting the local primary school, day care and vocational traingin center connected with my homechurch North Street United. We also have spent ime wih the kids at the day school running recesss on Mon. They were thrilled with the soccer balls and other sports goods we brought for them.
Seeing hte burn out shell of the building for \the first time was really hard. It will never be the same again. But sometimes change is good even whenit comes through hardship. The people here are as commetted as ever and they are in the middle of a week of crusade (outdoor revival style wworship aimed at connecting with the neighborhood. Their new pastor is a good guy and had a great message on Sunday about the woman at the well. "Come see a man"
Our group has worked hard but they have also connected with the people here and this will definately not be the last time we come to serve. There are many glocal connections being made. Everyone has been very open to trying new foods and new experiences. Some of hte folks had an eye opening experience at the open air food market today. Yesterday we went to the craft market in Kingston Harbour and bought souvenirs. Tues night we ate at an outdoor resturant in the historic village of Port Royal ( think Pirates of the Caribbean). No injuries so far and the hardest part for me was the drive from Montego Bay to Kingston partiall at night over some hairy roads, though today I think I awas dehydrated.. I have to make the trip again Saturday when we return to MoBay for a couple days R+R before we fly home.
Now that I have found the computer with internet at the convent I will post again tomorrow and try to post form MoBay when we get there.
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