Life in Jamaica isn’t as peachy as one would expect; at least not for this Peace Corps Volunteer. Although I’ve finally started to settle in and find my place, the beginning was less than to be desired. With my group, group 78, Peace Corps has implemented a few new policies. We went through what is called Site Based Training (SBT) instead of the traditional Community Based Training (CBT). In SBT we find out our sites two weeks in! Great! Less Suspense! Well, we also go to our sites two weeks in. Not so great. We are thrown into the deep end without knowing how to swim. This is not to scare you now, because I am fine, we are all fine, those of us who stayed. I was just in a state of shock whenever I got to my site. We were left with no support system. No other volunteers around, no Peace Corps staff, some of us with crazy host family situations, some of us without a clear sense of our jobs, and some of us who’s job sites thought that we were already trained and rearing to go. This just wasn’t so. Almost none of us were prepared for the real Jamaica- the poverty around us, the severe lack of time management, the interesting food (including the constant consumption of bones and spare animal parts), the cold showers and bucket baths, the massive amounts of ants; at any given moment you would look and see what you thought to be a large crack in the wall running from the ceiling to the counter and then in a gasp of shock, you notice that’s not a crack at all but several hundred ants marching two by two, hurrah, hurrah. If the ants aren’t enough to test your patients the mosquitoes and grass lice must be. During my first month of service, I thought that I would need to be committed from the constant itching, pussing and bleeding that comes with 67 bites on one leg. But it is at this time you realize that you are serving in a third world country. This is why you joined the Peace Corps. This is your motivation.