Day 9: I'm a UWI

We all prepared for the first day of "class" on UWIs campus.

First we started our day with a lecture on Jamaican history with Professor Dr. Satchell. He gave us an o review that we were very familiar with and understood. Unfortunately, the PowerPoint didn't work but he did very well delivering a lecture from history.

After the lecture we moved over to the next hall and received an awesome lecture from Music Professor Johnson.  Despite the rest of the world's ignorance, Jamaica and most of the music is not reggae. The music world started with something called mento that kind of reminds me of southern french music. There is ska which is like Jamaican big band. Then you have rock steady, which is like a slower version of ska. Then you have reggae which is the most contemporary of the genres which I'm sure you all are familiar with. And the. Finally there is Dancehall which I can only describe like Sean Kingston and singing pop songs with typical Jamaican accent. Dancehall is commonly mistaken for reggae for the accent being used.

Professor Johnson was great and accepted an invitation to exchange at GVSU! So I hope we get to see her in the fall!!!!!

Then we shuffled off to a boardroom and met with a Housing Manager from zone two.

Three things that I learned from him about Housing:
1. The housing department operates basically the same as ours.
2. Resident Advisors are actually grad students
3. They get their own parking space, nuff said

 We were supposed to meet with the student guild but a mixed up occurred and we had shortened day instead.

Jamaica has such a rich culture, it was great learning about it from the UWI perspective!