Young Gal Road

Melody and the guys playing some reggae
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This Saturday I went to a village called Teakettle with one of our volunteers to visit a project that she is working on, with the community of Young Gal Road. After a bus ride and a tiring one mile walk up Young Gal Road, we finally reached.

The bush is amazing, there is no point trying to put up a photo to show you, the view is amazing, but it's a combination of the sounds of the birds, the cicadas, the water, its the feeling of the sun beating down on you and the sweat dripping down your face as you walk that make it what it is. We reached the two wooden houses where Chatuwa and Jerome live and were immediately welcomed in by a bunch of friendly faces, watching a Richie Spice dvd, the people here are so welcoming.

its the feeling of the sun beating down on you and the sweat dripping down your face as you walk that makes it what it is

The farm
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It was Melody's last week helping on the project to build a new park for the youth of Young Gal road and for a "thank you" they had set up a load of instruments and speakers and were planning to have a party. I think one of my best experiences so far has to be playing bass with these guys, and seeing their faces when i was able to copy what the other bass player was doing, to a bunch of rastas I guess a "white gurl" playing reggae has to be a funny sight.

We just chilled out playing music and talking for ages, and then Jerome announced that food was ready, we had Chai and Huduk (that is probably spelt wrong) which is a Garifuna dish of mashed up plantain it is my favourite, I had two massive bowls, this was followed  by lime juice made from limes picked off their tress. Jerome and Chatuwa live off their land the only thing the tend to buy is rice, beans etc, things they cannot grow. After dinner they sat around rolling up with mexican tobacco leaves. These guys tend not to drink. Back to the music and a new group of boys arrived with more keyboards which were balanced on an ice chest. Then all of a sudden we where hit by a downpour and some of the loudest thunder I have ever heard, ok we where in a wooden house with a tin roof, it was SCARY! All this rain made me and Melody desparate for the toilet... toilet? uh no... All we could see was trees.... so Jerome very kindly built us a toilet, well a bucket! hhahaha! it was soooo funny!! I was sad to leave those guys, they were so friendly, fun and accomodating. It made me realise why I love this country so much.