Life In Jamaica
Wayne and I are living in Jamaica for 6 months. We are doing a technology
education volunteer project in Kingston schools. We are teaching digital
music production (dancehall and hip-hop mainly) on computers. Each school
is building their own website on which to share their work and locally
produced content about their school. You can find out more on our
project site.
What I am working on
Technology/Computer-Based education
in JA
Writing a blog (when
I have something to say)
My course for C&W (see
above right)
Learning to understand Jamaican patois
Preparing for grad school (it's Harvard again)
Learning to make riddims on FruityLoops (first
try,sam
the man)
Still trying not to do too much at once
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Places I like to eat in Kingston (or elsewhere around
the island)
World of Fish (St. James Ave, Ochi. I give the address
because this place is so good that it is worth the trip to Jamaica. Get
the jerk fish and bammies.)
Kush's house (for fruit, particularly coconut water+jelly,
naseberries and tamarind)
Devon House I-Scream (ice cream)
Juici Patties (chicken patties)
Any old cart for bun 'n cheese
The market at Papine (also for fruit: plaintains, star
apples, paw paw, mangoes. and veggies: escallion, garlic, scotch bonnet
peppers)
Cool Jamaican Foods
ackee, bun 'n cheese, star apples, otaheite apples, scotch bonnet peppers,
june plum juice, coconut water, jelly, sugar cane, naseberries
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Some more things I like
appleton rum and ginger beer
star apples (so weird)
otaheite apples (subtle yet declasse)
"soon come"
cryptic crossword puzzles
running, swimming, rollerblading
anything competitive but not monopoly
scrabble
A few things I don't like
george bush's leadership and the war on iraq
embarrassing movies/TV (a la Swingers or Curb Your Enthusiasm)
"soon come"
jamaican bureacracy
telephones and phone messages
crowds
driving
mayonnaise
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