It's Friday :)

Friday May 29, 2009
The final day working on the project has finally come. We are all expected to stay at Theodora until all the editing is completed. You know the routine by now – so let me tell you what we see during our drive. We are one block from the Ocean and the road we take runs along the shore line so we see it all the way through the building and small shacks. Some of the taxi drivers are crazy drivers on the roads, passing with cars coming towards them. Bicyclers and walkers on the road that is barely big enough for two cars. When trucks unload they are on the road because there is not a lot of room for them to pull off. With all the people on bicycles I am really glad that I am not driving – some of you know my driving record with individuals on bicycles! We arrive at Theodora and it is just us with no students. We all head into the computer lab and start buckling down. Once we have a draft done we give it to two students to edit. Look through the edits and make corrections where we feel they need to be made. We want to make sure that the student’s story is told in their own words so it is a struggle when trying to correct because what we believe is proper language is not the way they would say it in Jamaica. We took a break about 2:00 and Libby and Dustin brought pizza and drinks for all of us. By this time a few of the students had dropped by. I had given Nikki my camera to take pictures and she showed up about noon. We went through the pictures that she took and picked out the ones that she wanted in her story. I had not read her story until this morning, and did a lot of rearranging, but kept it as close to her words as I could. Pictures were added and around 4:00 we completed the final story. Dustin and Libby will be going back on Sunday to do their final edit on all the stories along with Lynette and the Reverend. We were told we rocked and Dustin & Libby got good reports on all of us from the Reverend and teachers of Theodora. We headed back to Summerset and took showers before heading to a group dinner just down the road. We went to Bella Donna’s and she put out a buffet for us and as always it was excellent. Bella was a wonderful host and makes a mean rum punch. Had three of them-- and by the third one the girls were laughing because she brought out the whole jug. It was a great day, with a lot accomplished. Some of us wish we could have done more but I think we all pulled together to get it completed. Tomorrow we are going to Mayfield Falls so will be gone all day. I am having problems accessing the internet so will try to keep updating when I have access. Just hang in there I will have some postings and pictures (hopefully) to come. Peace to all – I am out for the night.