It’s a nice looking place with a nice, tropical feeling to it, but my experience with the people made for a bad time. I’ve been twice, and both times had to put up with a kind of tourist hell. Jamaica is a poor country, and people there border on abusive when it comes to their attempts to get money out of tourists. Everywhere you go there are tons of locals who just won’t give up… they follow you around pestering you and trying to get you to buy things. I know that you see that at most touristy locations, but the people in Jamaica really take it to a new level. On top of pushy sales tactics, almost nobody was friendly on either of my visits. I don’t think I’ll be going back again.
abroadwin's Life List
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1. Learn to cook well
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2. Make a movie
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3. Take one picture a day as a way to document my life
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4. Read more
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5. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
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6. decorate my apartment
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7. eat more locally grown food
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8. Always have pets
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9. be financially independent
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10. Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
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11. go to bed and go to sleep, instead of lying in bed for hours staring at the ceiling because my brain won’t stop
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12. Scan the old family photos
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13. Learn to draw well
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14. Expand my vocabulary
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15. Send something to post secret
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16. save money instead of waste it
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17. eat more healthily
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18. Learn another language
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19. Be more efficient when working
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20. try absinthe
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21. Finish what I start
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22. Make everyone around me happy
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23. Always be healthy
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24. Be successful
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25. Help as many people as possible
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26. see the northern lights
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27. Spend my life with Leah
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28. Own my own business
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29. keep in touch with old friends
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30. floss regularly
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31. Keep my room clean
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32. Learn as many languages as possible
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33. laugh every day
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34. Always love and be loved
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35. Eat Breakfast every day
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36. travel the world
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37. become a better photographer
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38. finish my degree
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39. be more confident
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Recent entries
Unpleasant
2 years ago
Works rather well
2 years ago
I disagree with people who say that this only “sort of” works. Especially in the beginning of the movie the album totally syncs up with the movie, and it really gives it an entirely different feeling. I totally recommend doing this. It’s like watching an entirely different movie, and it’s quite entertaining.
Ugh
2 years ago
Last night was about the worst so far. Maybe got a couple hours of sleep, and there wasn’t a single good reason for me to be lying awake in bed. I was tired. It was a reasonable time to sleep. I just stared at the wall/ceiling without sleeping. Then, around 4:30am, my mechanical coin bank decided to randomly start rocking back and forth making chomping noises; scared the hell out of me.

