Are you sure it's not fractured? The bones in your toes are very easily fractured, and hard to tell. If the swelling does not subside, check it out. It might only be a hairline fracture but it can hurt like he!! and you toe can become deformed. You can also try soaking it in warm water and then icing it down--helps the pain. But don't sit around with it if it keep bothering you.

JG, depends on what u need...http://kingston.usembassy.gov/contact.html

Bless,
Gill

I LOVE having an RN on our thread...now we jus need a lawyer...anybody...anybody!


Gill

Mommy2B is one I think!!!

For real! We also need a consular officer and someone who works at NVC



Is there a chance they are wrong?

there is a possibility....u/s isn't 100% accurate....

Mommy2B is a lawyer - I am a paralegal, and you should all know that we do most of the work!

That is why there is so much success with immigration because of all the legal advice and counsel we all get from the experts

Most yardies do their own filing too.

Do you guys realize how fortunate we were this month of March? With all the interview success and approvals and interview that are scheduled for the upcoming months. We truly have been blessed. Lawny and Jengs we need some more prayers for continued success on this board.

Yup...I noticed that! Good to know about M2B and Susie...now like Yardie said we need an NVC officer and a U.S. Ambassador...perferably the Jamaican one! I recently made a donation to the Obama campaign and asked them to keep me in mind for the US Ambassador to Jamaica when he gets elected! It's all about WHO you know!

Gill

$455 vs $5000 is a hell of a difference. I could mess up on the paperwork a few times and it still wouldn't cost me that much money. Yardies Rock!!!!!

AMEN!!!!!! we need fuh pudung a good pissa prayer fuh Ton-ton, Laprincessa and J&M in April!

Bless,Gill

Question:


Will I receive an e-mail when I petition is touched/felt/grabbed/held or only when there's a change in status?

HERE IS THE LIST OF APRIL INTERVIEWEES

Tnw--K1--April 1st @ 130pm

Jzay--K1--April 1st @ 0930 am

LaPrincess--K1--April 1st @ 115pm

Tonya--CR/IR-1--April 15th

Marla--K3--April 24th @ 1230pm

If you register with the USCIS site you will...when you get your petition number you can register. Did they cash your check? If they did and you have internet access to look at your cancelled check your number should be on the back....it's so wierd I used to know mine by heart...now I can't even remember what the heck it started with!

Bless,
Gill

Only you gill, only you

Thanks. Someone e-mailed me for it and I don't know what they wanted it for. I know I never want to deal with that God forsaken place ever again!!!!

Gill, check da timeline girl......... I'm proud of my timeline. I registered already, but I wasn't sure if I had to login to look for a touch. lol Thanks for the info honey.....

Yuh cyan laugh now Clairey...but when mi git hit...yuh nah guh call mi han check hout mi new digs! I'm sorry, but I think anyone on this thread is more qualified to be US Ambass to Ja then the woman that currently is...

Brenda LaGrange Johnson
Brenda LaGrange Johnson of Connecticut and New York, business executive and philanthropist, is the new U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica. She was a partner since 1977 with BrenMer Industries, importing and marketing consumer products.

Ambassador Johnson is on the Duke University Advisory Board of the Nasher Art Museum. She was a founding member, President, and Chairman of the Women’s Board of the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club and continues her affiliation with the Club as a trustee. In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed her to the President’s Advisory Council to the Arts (PACA) for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and in 2004, she was appointed to the Board of Trustees. Mrs. Johnson has been a member of the Woodrow Wilson Council since 1999. She also served on the Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society and the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Advisory Board.

She is a member of the National Finance Advisory Council for the George and Barbara Bush Endowment at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. She is married to J. Howard Johnson and has four children and four grandchildren.

Like I said...it's all about WHO you know!!! (She probably HATES Jamaica and wanted Fiji or UK instead! )

Bless,
Gill

Ok...Excuse me...Ms. Ting!! Dyam good job pon deh timeline...so yeah...you should get an email from USCIS when things happen!

Bless,
Gill

I am not laughing at you, girl. I am applauding your gumption (is there such a word?). You are one bold one and only you would make that proposal. You have big dreams. I wish you luck with those racist people.

Dis glossary ere wa nuff help fa mi tuh..along wid Jawi876's story.. RG sey mi a Jamerican fi tru.. He doesn't speak Patwah very hardly ever so I would never learn from him.. Even when I chat or text something in patwah, he usually still comes back in English. I just really love the culture and want to learn as much as I can.

Hello All.....Good Afternoon!

I have been laughing all day at all the talk about patwah.......I am trying to learn and speak it as well.....and boy oh boy....... .....

When reading some of the patwah.......I noticed the word "dung".......Which here in the states mean POOOOOO..... ......so when I was reading it and came across the word "dung"......I had to laugh at myself.......finally realizing that it meant down.........

Peace & Love,
Tonya

Thanks to all who advised me on the toe thing

Still swollen, but will leave it until Monday to see how things go.
Sus, my mother was an Arnica fanatic, didn't realise they have it here!!!


BTW, if WE feel we have it hard, check out this UK immigration thread!!
http://www.ukresident.com/forums/index.php...77&hl=child

Why don't you think she makes a good ambassador, Gil?

Mi luv yah Gilli....

OMG I couldn't even imagine if they were wrong! That would be so awful yet so hilarious all at the same time.

Good on you Gilly Mi wonda how mi cyan git mi name pon de ambassador list...hmmm...

I'm glad it helps. I know I need it bad.... Some of the words are spelled different from the way people spell them in this forum, but overall it's pretty good.

I didn't remember to respond to the how did you learn patois thing so here goes:

When I went the first 2 trips I was a missionary so there wasn't a lot of freedom in who I hung around and whatnot so I spent most of my time just listening to those around me in church and the children that I would teach would speak in patois a lot amongst themselves and I would just listen intently. Got to know a few people that lived on the same lot as us and I was pretty interested in learning so they taught me a few phrases and key words just to get me started. On the rest of the trips I took I stayed with a JA family and did various things around the community. I really had to learn how to understand what others were saying before I tried to pick it up myself. I accomplished that by just asking all the people I would hang around to chat patois to me and they new I wanted to learn so they would help me as I went along.

Then when A and I started dating he would talk to me in patois over the phone and when we were there. Once it was known around the community that I could understand it people stopped talking to me in English and everyone just conversed in patois around me instead of switching back and forth. When A and I got serious in our dating I felt a lot more comfortable around him and practiced my patois with him. That is basically how I learned the speaking part...I knew for a long time what I wanted to say in my head it was just a matter of getting over my fear and spitting it all out. Of course I got laughed at and made fun of at times but I just persevered. I got better at speaking when A got here and we spoke it in the house. We would speak it over the phone sometimes but with the bad connections and loud noises in the background it wasn't always that easy.

As for the writing part...it is all from the web. I know the words in my head and I picked up a lot of the different spelling for the words on this site and another JA site. It really helped that I understood the words cause then picking up the spelling/typing came pretty easy and natural. All in all for me the key was really understanding it and having so many people talk to me in it for months...I was totally immersed. I never learned from books or anything but I think anything can help.

For anyone interested I know there are some youtube videos of someone reading Dr. Suess in patois. Check out youtube and do a search. Also jamaicans.com has a lot of great resources



Wow I didn't realize I wrote so much

I've always been told if they tell you it is a boy (cause they see the winkie), it is accurate. But, if they tell you it is a girl, it could go either way cause winkie might just be hiding.

That is what I am thinking we have a purple jungle room for her. If its a he I hope he likes purple. Now if we can figure on how to put the crib together.. Mom got us a used one and she said she could tell us how to do it over the phone but we can't get it. I keep asking her to come over to help. Maybe she will come over next weekend since she went on vacation this week. Or maybe our neighbor can help he has 2 girls. We need his help to care up the changing table its so heavy because it has a dresser underneath and or town house is three stories tall. All I need is the crib up and changing table and we are set. I am so tired now I just finished the babies room. We have valances coming and and some rain forest wall art.

Now its time to tackle another room in a minute.

Are u suggesting we get a hotel room ? I wish but we have to back by 10p.m. for him to work. . I am thinking of calling my parents and asking them because they live in a close burb next to us.

The talking was so scary to me too.. I writte it out it so easily. Once I knew a few words and the flow of how words are positioned. I would type up a storm. Even found myself emailing it to people outside of my lil JA crew cuz I was typing it sooo much. Like someone else said, it really flows when I am shocked or upset LOL
The minute I had a chance to chat over the phone, I would freeze up.. I am still not comfortable at all talking iit, the pronunciation seems forced and I think I sound soo silly. But practice makes perfect, if I never try, then I will never get it.

yes I am a lawyer but I'm a young lawyer which means I do my own work

Hi ladies, happy Friday!

I just wanted to share I had a Dr.'s appointment today and I heard my baby's heartbeat for the first time.. I even called my SO so he could hear it too

I swear to God I am going to pull the fire alarm here if the clock does not speed up a bit!

If you guys want a really good laugh, read the answers in this thread:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=118473

I know.. I feel like Mommy2B's Meez right now.. It has been a fast but tiring week, I am ready to go lay down somewhere.

Congrats, Mommy! That's exciting -

As for work - give yourself a few years, you will soon be dumping work, lol! And best career advice - latch on to the paralegals and admins and make them your best of friends - they typically know the scoop in the big firms, and can point you in the right directions as you learn - I worked with an attorney who walked in my office on her first day and told me "I am going to be your biggest pain in the a** - feel free to tell me to F*** off" - Kicked our relationship right off, and she shot up through the firm - I would tip her off to which partners had the best new cases, so she would smooze and get the best assignments!

JG, that was funny... Go read my post...

That must have been real exciting. Was your SO excited to hear his baby's heartbeat?

Yes I was ; there's nothing like someone cleaning up after.... and u could have bought the food and flowers there and have him meet you

Where is everybody today? Is everyone off for the w/e already? or trying to get some work done that was not being done all week caue of the time you all spent on VJ DWL