Long Overdue Video

It's hard to believe that it's already December. November was a blur, but in a lot of ways it is starting to feel like Christmas around here. The kids all practice Christmas carols at school daily, the radio has been playing carols for about a month now, and our social calendar is filling up with various fundraisers, concerts, and plays. The most exciting part for me came when we were at Bosco for dinner one night last week. They had a college group there for the week volunteering, so we came to meet them. One of the Sisters came inside and told us that there was a surprise waiting next to our van, so we ran outside to see what it was. I was beyond excited to find that while in Kingston that day the Sisters had bought us a Christmas tree, imported from Canada and everything. It has jumpstarted my Christmas decorating in the house, and led to many jokes about how many snowflakes will I really make this month. It may not be cold enough for us to have snow here, but it has been pretty cold. I'm not exactly sure of the temperatures, as Mandeville is much cooler than the rest of the island, but small enough that they rarely talk about the temperature here on the news or in the paper. I just know that this is the coldest it's been since I got here, and I'm not getting used to cold showers.. the drop in temperature is making them much worse!

On another note, looking all the way back to October, I realized that I had taken some videos at the Jamaica Day celebration at the Basic School, but that I had forgotten to share those videos. My camera battery kept dying that day, so I kept getting short clips, but I put them altogether along with some of the pictures from that day. It's nothing fancy, but I hope you like it!