Tiffany's first post

Well, I figure I can't let Scott write all the posts while we are here in Jamaica......... but there is so much to tell that I'm not sure where to start.

October has been so rainy! We had 13 straight days of rain at the beginning of the month. Now we have a tropical depression coming through so more rain! My counterpart and I go out and visit persons that we have on our project. They are somewhat out in the bush. One day we thought we could get out and visit a couple persons and make it back before the rain started. We were wrong. We made it to one lady's house and the rain started falling. On our way back to the office we had to drive through some standing water. Well, we made it through the first one. We actually made it through the second one too but we only made it about 10 feet past it before my counterpart's car stalled. We couldn't get the car to start. Thank God we were close to a health clinic and we were able to get a number for a mechanic. No tow truck came to take us to a garage. The mechanic came after about 45 minutes of waiting with the car blocking the road and the water we passed through was gone. Then the mechanic fixes the car with it still in the street. I have yet to actually see a tow truck in Jamaica. I have seen a couple cars being drug by ropes with a friend's car in front. I have also seen many vehicles jacked up on the side of the road getting large repairs completed. Not only cars but buses and large trucks!