It feels good to be back. The sun, the water, the snow...just kidding. It is colder than here than normal (mid 70s versus normal mid 80s) and a bit breezy.
We started today by Nicole and I going to the hardware store. The hardware store in Negril is different than a hardware store in Wisconsin. Upon entering the building, there is a space about 10' deep and 20' wide for a customer service desk. A service person, ours was a lady, greeted us. We told her we needed paint and she presented us with a paint card of samples. Paint is already mixed here, no custom colors, so we picked colors closest to what the teachers told us they wanted for colors in their classroom: cotton candy pink on one room and bright yellow for the other. They wanted lime green for the upper half of the outside of the school and navy blue for the bottom. The closest colors we found were spearmint and primary blue. I think I'm pretty safe in speaking for Nicole (who has accompanied me on the Service Learning Trip for the past two years) that the colors Jamaicans pick for painting rooms are quite different than what we would choose. So, we bought 8 gallons of paint, one quart of paint thinner, and 4 putty knives for $14,000 (Jays, not US Dollars).
Upon arriving back to the Whistling Bird, we gathered the ladies and ventured to the Grange Hill Uppertop Lincoln Early Childhood Institution. I checked in with the teacher, Francis (aka Sharon as she doesn't like the name Francis) Chamberlain, who told us that the kids would be leaving at 11:30AM. Not all children attend school on Fridays, but we were able to interact with those present. We taught them ring-around-the-rosy and duck, duck, goose. We then proceeded prep the walls for painting. We completed the outside of one school building and the inside of the other.
After service work, we went for supper to 3 Dives which is a local restaurant. The food was tasty- I had goat, rice and peas and calaloo.
Our group seems very tired after the end of day 2. I think it will be nice for them tomorrow as we are having a day of experiencing two tourist attractions to Jamaica: YS Falls and the Appleton Rum Factory.
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