Sorry folks, again, for not keeping up with this. I could stretch the truth and tell you all that I have been just too busy to get a chance to sit down and write, but that might not be completely accurate. However, I have been busy!
The school year is starting to wind down, only 3 more weeks left. This term, I have been volunteering teaching a swim group at one of my schools. Sure, I have never had formal swim training and have never swam competitively nor have I been to a meet ever, but hey, that's what the PC is all about, right? So yeah, I have been helping out and so far so good. We had tryouts to build a team to take to a inter-primary school swim meet in St. Pauls, in a real pool too! 9 students from my school were chosen to represent St. John's RC. I was their coach. Heheh, I felt like I was in one of those movies where they kids all show up with the wrong equipment, and not matching clothes and having a coach that knows very little about what's going on. But overall, the meet was awesome! It was a 2 day event and very chaotic. All 9 kids were great! It was so cute bc they were very nervous to get in a real pool for the first time but once in, they loved it!
I am also teaching recorder at my other school. It's "coming" along. we have 3 classes left for the year but I am developing a summer music camp for several weeks in July. This should be fun because I will get to build the classes by level, age, experience, etc and only have like 8-10 in each class, instead of 30+ all at once. It's a bit much at times :)
I have my first visitor now, Hayley Nelson, a friend from college. She has been here about a week and is here for about one more week. It's been fun showing her around and letting her experience some the quirks Grenada has and also meeting lots of new people.
Speaking of her visit, we have been REALLY busy this past week! After I finished up with all the crazy swim meet stuff last Friday we made a trip down to Fish Friday in Gouyave. There were 4 of us total and all of us were exhausted so we only made it until about 10:30. Ooops. This weekend, we shall do better.
Saturday was eventful though. We went to 7 sisters waterfalls in St Andrews. It was great! It's been a long time since my heart has beat that fast! We hiked about 20 min on a nice little path to get to the falls. Once there, we all took our shoes off and continued the rest of the way barefoot. This part was fun but VERY steep. At the top there really was no turning back because the hike was so steep going up, going down the same way was a bit out of the question. So, we rinsed off in the river and began our decent of jumping falls. The first 4 were nice. A little exciting but nothing too high. We then approached #5... we were at the top of a 35 ft water fall (4 stories about) and only one way down. Guess who went first? Yeah, me! I could see my heart beating through my bathing suit. It was intense. The high after I jumped was way cool though and totally worth it. Scary as all get up, but worth it. That night, once again, we were all exhausted.
Today, Hayley and I took another adventure and ,without a guide, hiked to concord falls. We found the first one alright but then started off to the 2nd and could not find it at all. We even went back several times looking for a different path that maybe we didn't see the first time. No such luck. We still got in the water a bit and had a nice hike, just no fall. OH! But I fell! Haha, crossing the river on some slippery rocks I biffed it hard! HA! My first fall in Grenada. Oh well. I looked a bit ridic for a while because my backside was soaked. Fun day all together though. Tot wiped out!
That pretty much recaps the main events of the past few weeks. I know I forgot things and THAT is why I am going to try really really really hard to write a little more frequently than once every 2 months or something.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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