Negril - Pictures- not really a trip report per se...

[mountaingal]

Re: Negril - Pictures- not really a trip report per se...

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Seveen:
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I will check with my friend over the weekend. This happened about 15 years ago. She was in the prison at St. Catherines for 9 months with everyone else. Lot's of throwing of slop buckets.

Religious plurality is a good thing and I think almost every religion in the world is reflected in Jamaica. I have spent several Christmas there escaping the commercialism and greed that we experience in the US.

People recognize that it is Christmas but things are very low key there and the day soon passes. I was so proud of my son this year. He received a few presents (only small stuff that could fit in the suitcase). He was like - mom this is nice - can we go to the beach? [/qb]

I am even more amazed that there were buddhists working in prisons in St. Catherine! Man, I gotta find out more about this...

Seveen, it's true that Christmas is more low-key in Jamaica. From my childhood, the big thing about Christmas was being in Christmas pageant at church. Also, a lot of the more fundamentalist Jamaicans (and there are many) consider Christmas pagan.

[rudemonk]

Re: Negril - Pictures- not really a trip report per se...

one thing that I thought was pretty interesting my last time down was Easter Mass.

Some of the hymns slipped into patois on occassion and I really liked the vibe of the mass. back home the mass can get heavy.

i was always a big fan of putting the Christ in Christmas and sort of shifting the focus off Santa. Maybe I am bitter because I believed in Santa until a very late age and even got into a fist fight with a good friend of mine because he was Jewish and thought I was an idiot for believing in Santa. He was like, think about it...NOBODY lives at the North Pole and reindeer can't freakin FLY...and then you think this fat guy slides down your chimney!!

And as it turns out, I learned might was not right without having to read TH White, lol...