Ya Mon
I went to Jamaica for spring break with UVM's Alternative Spring Break program (ASB) and it was incredible. There were eleven of us there (including two student leaders), and we all stayed in one house (the two boys were next door) with a woman named Miss Heaven and her daughter Peta-ann. We worked in the schools for three days at all different age levels and it was pretty crazy in terms of how different it was. We also planted trees in a little park, toured Mayfield falls and ate sugar STRAIGHT from a mountain of sugar at the factory, pretty awesome. If I was techy enough to post pictures, I would. But I'm not. Maybe I will sometime.
Oh, and in Jamaica they speak a creole called Patois (pronounced pah-twa), and we learned a couple frases..... Here's my favorite... "Mi belly a hat me." Translation? "My belly hurts." I will totally use that one.
Posted by lib at March 22, 2008 09:07 PM