They drive on the left side of the road here!

I don't know what all Tim wrote last time, but now I'm writing everything to tell you the truth. Tim got dread locks and is opening a cock fighting circuit down here. He got a tattoo of Bob Marley on his left pectoral muscle and ate a five conch stews this morning. I've been trying to film everything myself without him, so far so good. When i slap him around a bit, he comes to and everything's cool.

For those of you totally shocked about hearing all of this (Ron), you'll be glad to know that what I just said wasn't true. The Bob Marley tattoo is really on Tim's right pectoral muscle. But seriously, things are going really well. We just got back from Bamboo Shack, and we've been eaten alive by mosquitos. We're going to pick up some Alovera tomorrow. And sheets because I used my two hoodies as a blanket last night. As opposed to using one for a pillow and one for a blanket, i scrapped the pillow. But it was a nice sleep. Just glad we got the air mattresses so we aren't on the tile floor anymore.

Today we shot some basketball footage and got to interview Jason who is one of the guys in our short video clip up, one of the guys who's been trying to turn his life around. So that was good. And we got some footage at A.F. Adderley gym and interviewed the senior master there. Other than that, we had some free time when we caught up with Captain Bruce and Miss Sheila working out when they can take us to the family islands to get some footage and chill back a little. We played some serious bahamian domino games. We got our TV today and water we needed. Tomorrow we should finish getting pretty much everything we need to be completely settled in. Except for the jeep we'll have, we should be getting that Tuesday. It's fixed, but we just need plates and stuff taken care of for it, and Monday is a holiday, so everything is closed on the weekend pretty much plus this Monday because of the holiday. It's Whit Monday or something like that.

Things are going well though. Today was a little more relaxed, not as stressful. We had some good laughs and enjoyed the nice weather. Stefan got really sun burnt and still refuses to wear sunscreen, but I think he'll come around sooner or later. Alright, I think I've babbled on enough, and I haven't read the blog Tim posted, so if I repeated something, don't worry about it. Hopefully we'll be able to put up some video blogs if we figure out why audio isn't working on the laptop for that.

Thank you all for your prayers, there's still much work to be done, but God is carrying us through. Still much work though, to see these youths. This morning at basketball, it was nice, Tim, myself, and Stefan got to play with a little kid CJ, and then i played briefly with a couple more after that before we had to leave. We'll have more pictures too once Jonathan gets here with his digital still camera. Then Neil you can have your PR shots for us, thanks for all your hard work.

It's nice though, because one thing when the kids saw us whiteboys in the school, the ones that we'll be following around more that are deemed 'uncontrollable' they asked us if we were there to tell them about Jesus and then laughed. they've heard all about Jesus, but they haven't seened it lived out as much. So we're glad to see Mark doing that and us being a part of everything, and already seeing the effects it's having on the kids and the hope it's bringing. God has a great work to do. Now we want to live out the call and show them Jesus, not come with lip service. We pray that this documentary will help in that.

Other than that, same old stuff going on. Everyone tries to sell us weed everywhere we go, but all the D.A.R.E. training in school is paying off because we haven't bought any yet. We've been safe though, and we're in a safe neighborhood where we're staying, and all the locals are starting to treat us like natives more and more, and if we keep soaking up the sun like we have been, we'll start looking like them too. Alright, I'm signing off. Until next time...

Jason