A Typical Morning in Montego Bay
In case any of you wanted to know how glamorous mornings were when I was in Montego Bay for 2 months, here’s a video post showing a typical one. A typical morning went like so: Rise around 8:00am to thug music, come downstairs in my usual ugly morning mood, pass by everyone and head straight for the kitchen to make coffee, have a cigarette on the veranda and then smile and get ready to face the day.
This morning in the video was during the time that my friend Irene was staying with us for a few nights and she was ALWAYS armed and dangerous with her video camera. Things like breakfast aren’t new to me anymore so I would have never thought to film this process but she’s still in the wonderment stage of loving every move that goes down in Jamaica. I love her and give her full credit for all the footage in this one!
I was living with 4 guys (and usually several extra people) for about a month. We all had our jobs in the house. O’Neil cooked and cleaned the pool, Mark washed dishes and swept the floor, Richie smoked weed and watched gangster rap videos, I did the laundry and the other guy (Mr. Incognito) watched TV. Occasionally O’Neil and I provided dance lessons to Irene on the pool deck.
I do have to admit I was very lucky to always have meals prepared daily. AND lucky that we had several awesome trees in the yard that provide nourishment – breadfruit, soursop, mango. The one thing I actually learned from these guys is that the 10 -15 breadfruit per day that fell out of the tree and laid in the yard are no good after they fall. I always thought these were the ones that go to waste because no one eats them but I found out that if they fall they’re no good in the first place. That’s the reason why O’Neil had to climb to get the ones still on the tree. See….I still learn something new every day in Jamaica.
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