Wed. 15/ 08/ 2012- Last Blog Post
Sun. 09/ 09/ 2012- Arrived in Jamaica!
Mon.-Thurs. 10-13/ 09/ 2012- First 4 days of training in Kingston.
Thurs.-Sun. 13-16/ 09/ 2012- Site Visit (Our house in White River, Birnamwood Primary School, Port Antonio for a wardens mtg., and Buff Bay Beach Cleanup)
Mon.-Wed. 17-19/ 09/ 2012- Final 3 days of training in Kingston.
Wed. 19/ 09/ 2012- Swearing In Ceremony at US Embassy by Deputy Chief of Mission Dr. Raymond L. Brown and then returned to site.
Wed.-Sun. 19-23/ 09/ 2012- Unpacking at Site and My 28th Birthday!
Mon.-Fri. 24-28/ 09/ 2012- Project Design and Management Workshop and Early Service Conference in Ocho Rios.
Fri.-Sat. 28-29/ 09/2012- Hanging in Oracabessa with some other Volunteers and travelling back to site.
Sun-Tues. 30/ 09-23/ 10/ 2012- Settling in at Site.
Wed.-Fri. 24-26/ 10/ 2012- Hurricane Sandy and Clean-up (Lost power and water 24/10)
Sat.-Mon. 27-29/ 10/2012- Oracabessa for Halloween Party and showing Pat and his family/friends around the Buff Bay Valley on Monday.
Tues.-Mon. 29/ 10-05/ 11/ 2012- Still without power and water. Spent weekend with friends in Port Antonio.
Mon-Tues. 05-06/ 11/ 2012- Got power back Monday night and water back Tuesday afternoon. Also acquired a puppy we named Spot and Barack Obama was re-elected president of the USA!
Fri.-Sun. 09-11/ 11/ 2012- Spent Friday in Port Antonio and our friend Jackie came to spend the weekend with us. Our First Visitor and outside sampler of Tom's Deep Fry Friday tradition.
Fri.-Sat. 16-17/ 11/ 2012- Second visitor, our friend Kate came to check out Birnamwood Primary School and spent the night!
Sun.-Wed.(today) 18-21/ 11/ 2012- Writing my CASI (Community And Sector Inventory) and preparing for Thanksgiving/ the All Volunteer Meeting in Kingston starting tomorrow.
Its been a crazy last 74 days but I hope to post a more "fun" blog post soon. However this is the gist of the my last 2.5 months!
~ Chelsea
