Day 3

Sunday morning had a very interesting start for Joh and Sam. We woke up to a nice fat spider. Honestly, the biggest spider I have ever seen. When I say big, I am talking BIG. Like the size of a small mouse. Joh screamed like a little girl when he saw it. Sam was a tough man but he didn't want to touch the spider. We had one of the kids in the community get it for us. But after that whole ordeal was dealt with, our day was a lot more calm. We start our day with a nice fat breakfast. The breakfast was the same as day 2. You know the saying laxy Sunday? Well this Sunday was pretty lazy in the morning. We hang out with the kids talking about many different topics. Then around 11:30 AM we trek up to the top of the square to attend Church with the locals. Wow. Talk about singing, dancing and praising the Lord. These Jamaicans know how to celebrate Sundays. After Church, we went back to our homestays and played with the rambunctious children until lunch was finally served! Lunch was chicken sauteed in a mild curry sauce with pasta and potatoes. After lunch, we met Vanessa and a local community member, "Yellowman", to begin our hike to the river pool waterfall. In the Jamaican heat, we started up a steady uphill to the waterfall. Right off the bat, it was clear that we were not conditioned for these types of hikes. As Vanessa and Yellowman were chatting and telling stories about the Blue Mountains, we were struggling to keep up and conquer the hike. But as we neared the end, we began to see the waterfall. All six of us turned to each other and said "This is sweet." Minh and a local kid from the community we stayed in raced to the top. Let's just guess who won... At the top of the waterfall was a small pool that people began to jump in to. Little did they know that the water was in fact freezing cold. Yet, it was refreshing after a long hike. After playing around for a while, we took our first (and only) bath. The locals laughed at us, but we washed our hair and faces and felt all squeaky clean for the hike back. As we began to hike back, the rain started to come down pretty hard but the only way to shelter was the way we were walking. About half way through the walk back, we noticed all the kids running towards a tree. Before we knew it, the oldest of them was at the very top of the guava tree. He began shaking the entire tree, and I mean SHAKING THE TREE. The younger kids would be underneath picking up as many guavas as they could to bring back to their homes. It was a pretty crazy scene if I must say. When we got back home, we ate dinner with our host families and came back outside to play with the kids before bed. We brought out speakers that Minh had brought and started to play popular American songs. The community went wild! They knew all the Justin Beiber and Rihanna songs. It was like a little neighborhood concert. Everyone was laughing looking at us dancing and we were laughing hearing them sing these popular songs. Around 9 PM, we were asked to settle down as the kids had school tomorrow and our busy week was about to start.