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black, white, and many shades of red, yellow and brown.... yes! and as long as they turn up the speakers and smile and make a little space for me and my rum I am happy ~ might even share my rum!
I do not do screwfaces LOL I see face pulling as a twitchy nervous thing so no point sending looks over my way !
I have had fun at all the parties I have attended.
I know it can feel daunting though just for a split second sometimes, like one time I was at a gathering it was the night before a funeral and it was in a very remote place.
Deep into the greenery and trees and mountains~ for me anyway.
No streetlights, no road just half a town gathering way back.
So this very drunk man starts shouting whitey whitey which is fine I am used to that it means nothing,
so then he started making sexual remarks not your usual rudeboy remarks but like being quite rude and drunk with it.and for a split second I thought I am in the middle of nowhere half a town full of pretty much strangers there is a man shouting at me , I am the only white person here and there is a grave dug behind me and its dark and .....
But then I snapped out of it because our neice that lives in Jamaica came out and hit in across the head (not too hard) and told him to hush up his mouth before he takes a beating or something like that!
And so the rum punch continued
You reminded me of another time, remote place once again and a man shouted AY whitey what you doing here?
and AGAIN I had drunk a little bit of rum beforehand and was just in a silly mood and could not really be bothered dealing with anyone I was just doing my own thing so I acted silly and when he said ay whitey what are you doing here? I replied~ I do not know, my spaceship left me here and then said in a really stupid voice and did a moonwalk "I am a whitey alien" LOL OMG what the hell was I thinking? I thought later after the guy looked at me like omg freak laughed and almost ran away, I wondered if the man was just stopping to ask me the time or something!
Initially I thought he may want a date or money or I was not sure but I just wanted to carry on with what I was doing.
Still cannot believe I said that to him.Hope I am not the only white person he has seen, he may think we are all totally nuts full time
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DAY 4 PART 1
You know when you wake up but your vision isn’t quite clear yet and everything is just out of focus enough that you aren’t quite sure what you’re looking at. Well this was me and I’m laying there with my head to the side waiting for my eyes to focus and someone is shuffling around the room. What is that?? Things come into focus and I’ve got a great view of … the washroom and Andre moves into my line of vision.
“Morning Babes!”
Everything sort of comes back to me from last night and I remember I went to bed angry and now I’m instantly in a bad mood because the Andre I remember would have carried this out.
“Manda? You awake? I said Good Morning!”
Ughhhh grumble grumble I can see now and he’s fully dressed showered and the front door is open. Okay what the hell time is it? By that huge ray of sunlight I would have expect close to noon?
“Andre what time is it?”
It’s 8am and you’re lucky because I was up with your blow horn this morning I turned it off by the way.
I sit up so that everything I’m looking at isn’t side ways.
“Jacko! Barber! It’s okay she’s not naked or anything come say hi”
Great! I’m pretty sure my mascara is probably some where between my eye and my mouth and my hair oh god ! I turn slightly and there they are two big huge smiles on their face. “Good Morning Jacko .. Good Morning Barber” and if I could explain to you the lack of enthusiasm in my voice when I say this as I sat there trying to shield my morning look from them with the sheet that’s wrapped around me.
They leave and I’m hoping it’s because they can sense that I’m not ready for company and not because I’m hideous at this very moment.
“Hey Babes, I’m going to go buy you some coffee get up and get ready”
“You’re not mad?”
“No, why?”
Now I’m very suspicious at this point I’m waiting for some sort of your on candid camera moment where Andre turns back into some grumpy hater.
“Err can I have a hug then?”
He sort of falls on me and remember this bed… ya boards in my back but alright no complaints I got my hug.
Andre isn’t mad at me but my foot .. my foot is definitely mad at me!
He sets up the shower for me because I’m really not sure what that lever at the top of the shower head was for and I hop in.
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH omg omg omg omg omg ANDREEEE”
”What what what you aiight? What’s wrong ???”
“It’s freezing!!!”
He laughs at me and explains that outside of the hotels you wont get a “hot” shower and that it doesn’t get much warmer than that.
Now this I’m not use to I’m sort of doing that breathing that pregnant woman do, whats that called anyways? Heeheehoo anyhow .. now if that doesn’t wake you up and take any sort of boozy grogginess away I don’t know what will.
I feel fantastic I get out get dress I’m just about to sit down and Andre comes in with my coffee. Now this is service
Me, Jacko, Barber and Andre off in to the car.
“So where we going?”
“Lover’s Leap”
“YESSS!”
It ends up not being very far from Andre’s place at all and we get there
Sorry for the inconvenience we are closed for Renovations
“Noooooo”
But I’m a trooper there is a field right next to the gates there is one cow and it’s fairly far from us so why not we walk across this field and we’ve got the cliff right in front of us. No railing.. no fence .. and it’s GORGEOUS. I can’t get over it. It’s morning still and just from the way the sun is hitting you can’t even tell where the water ends and the sky begins from the horizon and I’m overwhelmed. But not just me. Apparently Barber and Jacko have never been here! They are ecstatic and I’m beaming! I’m not the only tourist today.
After taking in the view and watching Jacko and Barber like little kids on Christmas morning athough Barber takes this in from a far distance. Apparently heights are an issue for him. We walk back to the car and on our way back Andre finds 100ja in the field. 1 cow and 100ja.
”Manda it’s going to be a good day. We’re going to Treasure Beach now.”
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Manda - Enjoying your trip report so much! I'm tuning in every night, I don't want it to end.
Love all the pictures too!
Thank you for taking the time to share your adventures in Jamaica with us.
Looking forward to hearing about treasure beach!:D
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trespassing in someones yard to get to the lovers leap cliffs edge might not have been very smart - i definitely would not of done that without your local friends with you.. but at the same time i am happy you got to see it.. i havent been there - yet..
jason
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Manda, Thanks for sharing. I'm excited for your TB part. I check in several times a day just to see if you've written the next installment. Hope your foot is better! :)
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Manda: love how you roll. Some of my favorite times in Jamaica revolve around getting OUT of Negril.,,,not because Negril isn't a shat ton of fun, but because there is so much more to see than just the beach/cliffs.
You know this now. I'm impressed with your adventures. In January, I am going to do my best to do a LOT of the same...Grange Hill and further on the scooter!
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Noooooooo, there has to be more. I was looking for the pictures to go along with Day 4 post. I was clicking Next Page knowing full well this was the last page. Anticipation is making me WAIT!
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I think you may break GerryG123's record of views!
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dat's why I'm trying to get a good deal on a room before that happens, lol. ....
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that is because we have to click back hundreds of times just to see if the next part is here.I am going to Negril for 6 weeks I wonder how I should space my trip report out!COULD TAKE ME A FEW YEARS:D
