Pam's advice was good, but Jan's were bigger

So we have posted a couple of blogs from earlier, so scroll down a bit before you read this one. It is the most current. Did you listen? If not, then you will be confused. Here we go. For two weeks, we were at our sunny little site. It is hot as heck out there. We bought a fan on the second day and now we spend the majority of our free time sitting in front of it. We worship the fan. The road up to our orphanage is hilly and my clothes are just demolished with dirt and sweat by the time we reach the top. Sometimes the power goes out during the (frequent) rains, and this makes us both unhappy as there is no more fan. Another great way to cool off is to visit the beach that is less than 10 minutes from our house. Woohoo beach. I will post pictures at some point. It's technically a private beach, so there are rarely more than a few people on it at once. Fantastic. There is a reef that is great for snorkeling a couple hundred yards out, perhap we'll get to that next week. Goodness there is a lot to say. I'll start with our town. It is small and more of a collection of homes, we have meet a few people here and there, but not many. We go into the large resort town nearby for most of the things we need, like chocolate milkshakes. The orphanage is at the top of the street we live on. It's actually a pretty little place on a hill. Quite warm though. We spent two weeks mostly observing the chaos that is daily life with 100 children. There was a group of American volunteers putting on a summer camp. They were extremely welcoming and helpful. They invited us to lunch and dinner at their 5 star hotel. It was insane. We were blown away by the air conditioning, let alone the giant pool, fluffy mattresses, and full service spa. Ya'll should save your money for a visit. We're picking up more Patois, more of the kid's names, and meeting more current volunteers. The picture I posted is from the Christmas card workshop that we attended with the "aunties" at the orphanage. Can you tell which ones are Patrick's? He is super proud of them. As well he should be, they are most lovely. The reindeer was my idea. One of my favorite things here is the fruit. We have what amounts to a fruit sampler platter every morning for breakfast. It's amazing. The bananas here are crazy good. We often have papaya and mango, as well as cantalope. The second week we tried nayseberries, which are not berries. They are about tennis ball size and really, really sweet. The texture is a little strange. I don't know exactly how to spell them either. My apologies. We also have sweet sop, which is a green bumpy fruit filled with little black seeds that are covered with a mild white fruit. It's labor intensive like the guineps. Currently we are back in Kingston for training. We will be here until the weekend. It has been a tedious week. It's great to see our fellow trainees though. Please accept our sincere regrets for our lack of posting as of late. We don't have a routine set yet or easy internet acess and the computer is being finicky. We'll try to do better though. We love and miss you all. Keep the emails coming, it's great to hear from everyone. Thanks to all who sent care packages, I can't tell you how fabulous it feels to get something from home!!! I hope you followed my instructions and read this post last.