Hi Mike and Toritoribe,
First of all, thank you Toritoribe for your respond and short sentence breakdown, it helped a lot!
Mike,
I'm not saying that this particular sentence has Okinawa dialect. Sorry if I didn't make it clear, but I meant to say that it's from an Okinawa text so there might be some Okinawa dialect in there in case a helper might not recognize it or something... And to answer your suggestion, I will most certainly read other easier texts after I finish this one since my Japanese is not good. This text is actually a text I'm reading for the purpose of doing an analysis about two of the author's work. One of them is translated while this one is not so I'm looking at her writing style in order to make my thesis stronger. In any case, thank you for the suggestion and I hope that you continue to help me with translations if I ever stumble upon something I can't translate myself.