Jamaica Deaf Village

Hello everyone, Im so sorry its been a while since I've last posted. Things are just crazy down here! I leave my room at 6:45am every morning and usually don't get back until 10 or 11pm at best. Its been a weird past 4 days in that it has rained everyday, which usually I would be excited about because it cools everything down and fills up the cisterns (collects rain water so we can shower and use the toilet), but on flip side of that we don't have a dryer because electricity is 4 times as much as it is in the States, so my clothes have been hanging in the rain for 4 days now. Work has been going good, were building new houses so the deaf families can move out of the apartments and into their own place. The last team that was here was a bigger group of 29ish people from Illinois, Missouri, and Michigan and most of them were my age so it was a lot of fun. We played so many games, card tricks, and just hung out and talked. It was very sad to see them go, but its apart of the j...

        So today is June 7th, I've been in the Jamaica Deaf Village now for just over a week. I'm sorry I am just now posting this blog but I've had many many problems connecting to wifi and my laptop breaking, so its been difficult to be able to have contact with everyone back home. On a side note, I'm not the best with grammar, so I'm going to intentionally put errors in this blog so you can't tell the difference between what I did on purpose and my mistakes :).         The hardest part about this whole thing was getting through customs and immigration at the Jamaican airport! The immigration agent did not understand why I was staying here for 10 weeks. She asked me where my return boarding pass was for going back to America. I told her I didn't have the boarding pass yet, so she made me give her my phone and she looked through my emails till she found one from Delta saying I was going back to the states. Then she asked how much cash I brought ...