I am in Kingston for a few days to welcome the new group of Peace Corps Volunteers on the island. I have now officially been in Jamaica for one year and to be quite honest – it feels like a lot longer. I look at this new group and I think back at what my first impressions were when I had first come to the island. My whole definition of Peace Corps were never far of the mark and my intentions were and still are purely honest and unchanging.
I am going to a dinner tonight where i will have the opportunity to meet these new volunteers and get to know them better. It is good for me to come out of my site and socialize with some of my countrymen. It reminds me a little of who I am. i met a couple from Tennessee (well -nashville) and they seemed very nice. They new about Bell Buckle and antiques and all the crap I would rather forget about where I come from, but they are Tennessean nonetheless.
There is a girl that attended University of the South at Sewanee. When i told her I was from TN, she didn’t seem to express an allegiance to the state, so I dismiss her while forgiving her for her lack of sympathy (laugh……now).
I haven’t been getting so much sleep here lately, and I am not sure why. My mind is full of all sorts of things lately and I can’t seem to quiet it down That’s ok. I saw a girl at the airport today that had a shirt on that read, “peaceful mind” – She was standing in the back of the line at Burger King with quite the expression of impatience. So I am not alone- there are lots of people like me who have a hard time harmonizing what they know they ought to be like with how they actually are.
This post isn’t meant to be any great work of art. I just didn’t like the last post, and wanted to get something – well – anything up ahead of that one.
That’s it for today. I have some good stuff coming up, so don’t worry – I do have a year left.
