We, in fact, did not fall off the face of the earth and are chugging through our second year down here in SVG. We had a wonderful time back at home with our families and friends, catching up, reliving our adventures and eating a lot. I mean, like gain 10 lb lot. That’s a long [...]
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Dear Friends and Family,
Over the past year I have been volunteering my time and efforts at Georgetown Secondary School in the community where I live in St. Vincent. In many ways a challenging work assignment, GSS suffers from various problems that also affect other “country” schools (those farther away from the capitol, Kingstown) — [...]
The title of this post is the new motto of my school. Not kidding. It is emblazoned on a huge, hand-painted banner that hangs above the auditorium, a painted portrait of two GSS students in the center, books in hand, “forging forward.” And yes, there are 8 dots in the ellipsis, not the normal 3. [...]
Every four months we’re required as volunteers to complete a Volunteer Report Form (VRF). It’s something most of us loathe to do, for a number of reasons which I won’t go into because your time is valuable and the exchange rate isn’t in your favor. One part of it asks you to share a success story. [...]
Today, wheelbarrow before us, Steve, Tony, myself, and little Kellene set off to the ocean to gather rocks for a soon-to-be-realized (we’ve been saying this for awhile now) walking pathway in our backyard. Little did I know, or I would not have left the house, that at the first corner we would encounter another wheelbarrow, [...]
Oh, Caribbean summers…hot black holes for writing, working, and everything else that requires movement or thought. Lately, the only thing that I’ve wanted to do is sit on our porch, sipping a cold coke with ice, and stare at the palm trees. Or lay in a hammock. Or on the beach. Anyway, you get the [...]
Although it’s been almost nine months, it always feels like it swings one way or the other. Thankfully, the past month I think it’s more often been the positive.
Happy Times:
1. My Sewing Graduation. This is the closest to “integrated” I’ve felt so far. Who knew I could be so domestic? The day of my [...]
Just recently we were pleased to discover that our family exists outside of skype-world, when Steve’s parents visited us for just over a week. It’s funny, but you get so used to seeing people in 2-D on a computer screen that it’s almost a shock to see them in real life. Anyhow, it was so [...]
A week ago we made a somewhat noble attempt to participate in the annual Rabacca kite-flying contest…we just pray that the fate of our Obama kite doesn’t mirror his presidency.
This morning was stormy-looking, that foreboding gray sky, but it never really rained. I love Georgetown under dark clouds — it makes the colors of the buildings pop, and it also accentuates other things, such as graffiti, peeling paint, and multi-colored trash. It looks gritty and bright, and it has just the right feeling.
The past few weeks, the [...]
That’s pretty much how we feel when we walk E-Lo on a leash around the area. So it goes…
This is required viewing for living in the age of financial ruin.
Hat tip to the Plastic Blog for finding this.
We were very privileged to witness the baptism of our best vincy friend, Tony, today. It was quite a moving scene and an honour to be a part of.
One of my good friends mentioned that she thought I was allergic to writing about work, and maybe I am, because to be honest that’s the reason why I haven’t wanted to sit down and type up a post. There’s been a lot of work the last month, which has been rewarding at times, [...]
An explosion of kids came over on Valentine’s day morning surprising us as we were about to depart for Villa… Good thing we had heart shaped doilies and plenty of Plum Rose in the back! One girl wrote Love entirely backwards — seriously, you can hold it up in the mirror and it reads perfectly [...]
I eat Ital a lot. Ital is a rasta term which just means natural food — from the earth, no extras, no meat, etc. It suppose it can really be anything but in this case it’s usually rice and chunks (soy bits) with peas etc. It’s become a staple of my diet [...]
BEAT OU! (done)
Wish we were at Univ Ave and 17th. Another National Championship spent in a foreign land, yet oh so sweet!
So, it has come to be my turn to update our blog… it shouldn’t be a chore, but it’s a little like when you casually throw a shirt on the bedroom floor, and then a pair of socks, and suddenly it’s a heap of clothing and you’re annoyed you never did anything about it to [...]
This happened last week.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and claim that the island of Saint Vincent is greatly blessed with a grand total of three Gator graduates. There’s a woman that sells snacks outside of the secondary school I work at that wears a gigantic Albert shirt, but I’m pretty sure [...]
It’s time for an update. Quite a lot has happened since we last posted a photo update of E-Lo (he’s gotten really big, really fast — more photos of him to come later). But this update won’t address that because, as you’ll note in the time-stamp when I’m done typing, it’s late and I’ve continued [...]
This would be fun if it were a chart detailing the incline of an amusement park ride over time. Unfortunately, it’s a performance graph of one of my only investments. Brutal? Yeah, you could say that. Good thing I’m in the Peace Corps and not planning on retirement anytime soon.
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His name is E-Lo. Odd name huh? Well, we’re hoping he’ll live up to the greatness of his namesake.
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