Rent a Rasta

In my ecotourism class last night, we were talking about the socio-cultural impacts of being a tourist economy. One of the problems was the sex industry, and how different hot spots are promoting prostitutes, sex, etc... Someone in the class recently wrote a paper on a similiar topic and informed us that in Jamaica the have a service called "Rent a Rasta"....I thought i could have died laughing!!!!!

Anyways...things are going good here. Grubbing (hall initiation) is almost over. Are activites were interupted last night by a block war. See, Milner Hall (my dorm) has for bulidings that make up the entire area...each building is a block. I live in I-Block. Last night North Block made an advance and started a war....pretty much means, they took a bucket full of water and dumped it on someone so we retaliated. Block wars are sooooo intense...we're talking people getting "kid napped" (carried off the field into the other block), full out tackeling, and water fights like you wouldn't believe. It was pretty amazing.

Tonight we have a concert that us Grubs have to put together....right now it's pretty disorganized since there are so many of us. It'll either be amazing or down right horrible. Details to come once it's happened.

I have had all my classes, and am really looking forward to them all. I ended up dropping the film class because it conflicted with the pan theory/steel drum class....the pan class won hands down. But that's ok, because I still have 4 classes, and my research project on top of that. I have heard back from my contact about my project. Apparently Trinidad is hosting the 2009 "Rountable for Sustainble Cocoa Economy". I will be covering parts of the conference and writing and promoting it for the local papers here.

My food management course seems like it will be really interesting. The lab professor likes to call on me a lot because i'm from the states...never wear a wisconsin t-shirt to the first day of class, you draw a lot of attention to yourself. We're going to be learning about food safety, preperation, and some ther stuff that we don't know yet since the syllabus isn't finished yet.

A little depressing news is that I wasn't able to register for the hike this Sunday...so I won't be able to go. But there are still 4-5 other ones this semester, so i plan on going to all of those.

I hope everyone is doing well back home!!!!!!