Jamaica Baby!

Jamaica was amazing! It was so hot and I got so many bug bites but it was all worth it. It was amazing being around the Jamaican people. They were so friendly and they had so much culture to share, such awesome dancing. The conference was outstanding, our performance went well and then my presentation came. It went pretty well but it came under a lot of fire because of what I was encouraging. My presentation was entitled "Encouraging Masculinity in Dance". Right now it is popular for all in academia to claim open mindedness and tolerance but they pretty much condemn any one with different ideas than themselves.
My presentation prompted much thought and discussion some of the more inspiring feedback,
"Yours was the only presentation in which I didn't fall asleep."
"Everyone was sitting on the edge of their seats, the whole time."
"I loved how much discussion your presentation inspired."
After the discussion began to get a little heated, someone called my train of thoughts homophobic, the presenter before me jumped up and brought the session to a close. She was a professor and I much appreciated the help.
Surprisingly afterward only those with kind things to say came to speak to me, many compliments on a job well done and people expressing agreement with my views, experience and research.
A few days after my presentation a woman asked if I was a graduate student. She was surprised to hear I was in my last year of undergrad.
I found it amazing, the response I invoked. I have never felt so in the middle of something so intense and passionate. A mother of a young boy participating in the conference expressed gratefulness and appreciation for speaking out about this issue.
I will never, never forget this experience, it was insane. If not for her expression of gratitude I would have resolved to stay away from situations like that as much as possible but because of her I have decided to take the LSAT and perhaps, not 100% sure yet, go to law school. I had kind of thought about it before going to Jamaica but this experience kindled something. I don't know what but hopefully it is a good thing.
Anyway here are my pictures, and I look forward to traveling the world as I get older!

Me and my luck $5 coin. Exchange rate for the Jamaican dollar is $80 "J" to $1 USD(US Dollar).
I found the coin on the seat on the bus and kept it for the whole trip. It is worth 4 cents. And the background of the picture is the Jamaican coast flying by, we landed in Montego Bay and drove 4 hours to the other side of the island, Kingston. Not recommended but we did get to experience to beauty of the Jamaican Countryside.

This is Trevor, Kim, Me and SaraKim at Emancipation Park before the openning ceremonies of the conference, daCi (Dance and the Child International)

This is the beautiful Jamaican Beach. I didn't even make it to the really nice beaches.

More beach!

This is our group, at the closing ceremonies, made up of students from BYU, North Texas University and Delaware University. We had a blast!