Ok Nick, See you next trip.

I stood outside the Airport Building and watched my driver pull off.

Man, he's going back to Negril and I'm going back to Chicago.

It aint fair! It aint fair!

So, i went in and checked my luggage and received my boarding pass, which is very easy now with the "scan your passport machine" American Airlines has now.

Hmmm, 2 hours to go, so I started to walk outside and then I saw them.

Maybe 40 yards away about 10 kids in uniform facing a woman.

The woman had her back to me and she was moving her hands around like she was trying to calm the kids down.

Funny, I never see Jamaican kids in public acting up to the point that a grown up must yell at them to stop.

As I got closer I noticed that the woman was using sign language!

My daughter was born deaf and I have been signing with her since she was 2 years old.

I walked over and stood so that I could read the woman signing.

When she stopped I said excuse me are these your students? Yes, she said.

So, we started talking and she told me that they were on a field trip to Sangsters Airport.

Wow, that's wonderful.

I told the woman that my daughter graduated from college and left me to find her own future in California.

I told her that I come to Jamaica alot and I would be willing to come and spend a couple of days doing volunteer work or anything that I could to help.

I don't have money, but I will give the kids something more valuable.

My time and energy.

There were a few kids around 5-6 years old and a few more maybe 9-10.

There was one little boy, maybe 5 years old, kind of sad looking and a little shy.

Hmmmm, I will look out for him when i get to the school.

(self confidence and pride are things that must be achieved)

The other kids started in on me with sign language, but afater a while the teacher told them to calm down.

"This man has a plane to catch." she explained.

We exchanged #'s and email addresses.

I looked up the school on the internet when I got home.

The Jamaican Christian School for the Deaf, just outside of Montego Bay.

The teacher told me that school is over June 21 or something like that.

So, I must make plans to be there maybe the 1st or 2nd week of June.

If I can.