Things are starting to slowly return to normal, whatever normal is anyway. I guess the better way to put it, is that I am nearly out of vacation mode. I’ve been back for almost a week now from my MST (mid service training), and an extended vacay in Dominica. To sum it up, I did a lot of river bathing/splashing/wading, playing in waterfalls, jumping off rocks into freshwater pools, hiking, twisting ankle while walking, scuba diving, tourist shopping, and one long trip to KFC that ended with us sipping white wine in a hot tub… It was definitely hard to leave beautiful Dominica!!
Along the way I met a couchsurfer who was staying with some volunteers in Dominica, he had told me he was coming to my tiny island and within 3 days of my return here I had found myself with a visitor. So I decided to keep in vacay mode for a little longer, but he has left now and I guess it’s finally time to get that trimester report done… oops, sorry Mavis!
Anyhow, I am still trying to make some headway in this flora and fauna project I am doing with Brimstone Hill. We have at least 70 plant species I need to make profile pages for. These pages include info on scientific names and origins, and local uses and desricptions. It’s become more tedious than I thought. The pages will be put into a folder that documents the flora and fauna of Brimstone Hill and will go along with our display of specimens and pictures in one of the rooms at the fortress. We’re hoping to be done at the end of this month, but I’m thinking it won’t happen.
Now that it is October I also find myself helping out again with the exchange students that are visiting from Guadeloupe (French-speaking students in for a month of training). It’s been a little more difficult this time because these students know very basic English, and I wish I could speak or understand French so it wasn’t so frustrating for all of us, but we are getting there. I’ve already missed a week because I was gone, and now it seems like I only have next week with them, so who knows how far we’ll make it, but hopefully I can make the whole process just fun for them. Along with their English classes I am resuming teaching Kayako, my Japanese friend, English. We were doing well in the classes before we all had vacation and got real busy over the summer, so now we’ll squeeze in some more lessons before her and her husband have to move back to Japan.
As for the rest of this week, I have my first Science Club session on Thursday at Maurice-Hillier Primary School in Basseterre. It’s for 4th graders and lasts an hour. I need to try and think of something fun we can do for our first day, anything that can include a big mess with glue, crayons, paper, and a mix of learning should be just right!
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