Your fist time..... - Jamaica Talk

Alex4Ja · #1 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 01:46 PM

The first time you visited Jamaica, How soon after arriving and what was:

The first thing someone (a local) said to you, on arrival?
What was your first drink?
What was your first meal?
What fun thing did you first do?
What was your first disappointing moment?
How soon after being there did you first decide that you just had to return once again?
When did you first understand the local dielect spoken between two locals?
When did you first try to speak the local dielect?
When did you first taste the local cooking, not preapred at the hotel; or a tourist restaurant?
What food did you first reject but eventually tasted?
When did you make your first local friend?

Alex4Ja · #2 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 01:54 PM

The first time I returned to Jamaica after being away for many many years...
My first conversation was with a local Immigration Officer. We recognized me right away and we chatted about back in the day.
My first drink was an iced cold Red Stripe Beer.
My first meal was Brown Stew Snapper and Rice and Peas.
My first disappointment was a friend of mine who told me that she had B/cancer and I was not man enought to deal with it.

JamCan · #3 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex4Ja

The first time you visited Jamaica, How soon after arriving and what was:
The first thing someone (a local) said to you, on arrival?
Welcome to Jamaica!

What was your first drink?
Rum Punch...for some reason that day they were handing them out at the airport for free. Never seen them do that since!

What was your first meal?
Can't remember, but probably something hotel-ish. I won the trip and I was at an AI.

What fun thing did you first do?
First night we hit a beach party at Sun Beach in Negril.

What was your first disappointing moment?
Being stuck in a hotel with the group who gave away this trip. It was way too scheduled a trip for me.

How soon after being there did you first decide that you just had to return once again?
Within the first day there.

When did you first understand the local dielect spoken between two locals?
Right away.

When did you first try to speak the local dielect?
Never.

When did you first taste the local cooking, not preapred at the hotel; or a tourist restaurant?
Second trip while staying in a local's house.

What food did you first reject but eventually tasted?
Not sure but it probably had meat in it. Not a big meateater. Ackee was the next one.

When did you make your first local friend?

On day two of first trip. The police officer who was hired as security for our group.

Hotteach · #4 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex4Ja

The first time you visited Jamaica, How soon after arriving and what was:

The first thing someone (a local) said to you, on arrival?
Welome to Jamaica
What was your first drink?
Banana rum cream on the rocks
What was your first meal?
Oxtail......
What fun thing did you first do?
There was a huge beach party in full swing when I arrived at my hotel
What was your first disappointing moment?
When the girl at the front desk said something that completely embarrased me in front of a friend...cause she assumed I was screwing him....
How soon after being there did you first decide that you just had to return once again?
Still on the tarmac.....
When did you first understand the local dielect spoken between two locals?
LONG before I went...intersting too cause they assume a white gyal doesnt undastand
When did you first try to speak the local dielect?
I never try to speak it its just to embarrasing cause its not my language and I sound retarded
When did you first taste the local cooking, not preapred at the hotel; or a tourist restaurant?
on my second trip when D made me a candle light dinner on arriving at his apartment
What food did you first reject but eventually tasted?
None
When did you make your first local friend?

Well technically before I went down there.....introduced by a mutual friend

Hotteach · #5 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 02:03 PM

Soooooo many freakin questions.....sheeesh!

JamCan · #6 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Hotteach

Soooooo many freakin questions.....sheeesh!

As long as they're Jamaica questions its a nice break away from the usual grind here.

Hotteach · #7 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 02:11 PM

I know but I don't wanna get carple tunnal syndrome answering on likkle thread! lol

Lady Rasta · #8 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex4Ja

The first time you visited Jamaica, How soon after arriving and what was:

The first thing someone (a local) said to you, on arrival?

he asked me if i needed some ganja

What was your first drink?

ice cold ting

What was your first meal?

jerk pork ...rice/peas

What fun thing did you first do?

run to da beach

What was your first disappointing moment?

when we were overlooked and waited on after a white couple although we were in line first

How soon after being there did you first decide that you just had to return once again?

hmmmmmm? i dunno. Within a year, i was back with my sisters

When did you first understand the local dielect spoken between two locals?

when i arrived

When did you first try to speak the local dielect?

years before visiting for the first time in 1995

When did you first taste the local cooking, not preapred at the hotel; or a tourist restaurant?

first arrival. ganja, ting and pork from side of road

What food did you first reject but eventually tasted?

none....maybe the chicken foot in my soup

When did you make your first local friend?

second trip....

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Alex4Ja · #9 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 02:58 PM

Sorry about the many questions.

While you were there in jamaica....

Have you ever been to downtown kingston?
Have you ever taken a local public transportation?
Have you ever been in any social circle and you were the ONLY foreigner there?
Have you ever been in any 'hostile' area?
When were you first (if ever) in fear?
Have you seen/met any rich/affluent locals?
Have you ever been to any area down there considered as the ghetto?
Have you ever been verbally attacked by a local?

JamCan · #10 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 03:02 PM

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Sorry about the many questions.

While you were there in jamaica....

Have you ever been to downtown kingston?
Yes on my 5th trip.

Have you ever taken a local public transportation?
Route taxi's all the time. Almost too public bus from Mobay to Negril.

Have you ever been in any social circle and you were the ONLY foreigner there?
Often times, yes.

Have you ever been in any 'hostile' area?
Yes. I didn't feel it was at the time but heard from Jamaicans after the fact that I shouldn't have been there.

When were you first (if ever) in fear?
7th trip, I was chased twice by two different people.

Have you seen/met any rich/affluent locals?
Nope.

Have you ever been to any area down there considered as the ghetto?
Yep.

Have you ever been verbally attacked by a local?

Yes.....twice. The same two people who chased me in my answer above.

Hotteach · #11 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex4Ja

Sorry about the many questions.

While you were there in jamaica....

Have you ever been to downtown kingston?
been to what they refer to as New kingston.....
Have you ever taken a local public transportation?
Yes taken route taxis a few times
Have you ever been in any social circle and you were the ONLY foreigner there?
Always when i am with D and his friends
Have you ever been in any 'hostile' area?
If i was i didn't notice...
When were you first (if ever) in fear?
Only on the roads...the driving is crazy there..we almost drove off a cliff once cause D was tryna get up a road that was really just a path...
Have you seen/met any rich/affluent locals?
Not rich, but what i would call well off
Have you ever been to any area down there considered as the ghetto?
Yes...in Spanish town
Have you ever been verbally attacked by a local?

No just treated very rudely only one time...by a hotel worker who thought i was tryna bring smaddy into the AI for sex.....

Alex4Ja · #12 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 03:07 PM

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Yes.....twice. The same two people who chased me in my answer above.

Care to tell why you were chased and cursed?
Was your life in danger?

Hotteach · #13 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 03:08 PM

Good thing i am on summer break i can rest up from all the questions.....

JamCan · #14 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 03:13 PM

Oh and in my public transport answer I thought it meant buses. I take route taxi's all the time. Almost took a public bus from Mobay to Negril, but was offered a ride last minute.

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Care to tell why you were chased and cursed?
Was your life in danger?

Some Jamaicans don't take rejection well, that's why. And I believe with the second chase, yes I felt I was in real danger because even the Jamaican that was driving the car I was in was scared of this person.

Alex4Ja · #15 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Hotteach

No just treated very rudely only one time...by a hotel worker who thought i was tryna bring smaddy into the AI for sex.....

Spanish town??
Do you know the name of the ghetto area in Spanish Town?

Well off...How well off was the person that you met?