Well, it is Sunday night AGAIN! I feel like it is not possible that we are going into our 5th week of classes/school and that we have been here for 6 weeks already!!
Luckily, Friday ended the illnesses of the week and I was able to go play in my beach volleyball game. I was still moving slow though and only played one of the two games! Brayton and I continued our Friday night with a great couples night. Our friends Rob and Stephanie and Kate and Trevor and us went to dinner at Ciao's. It was so nice to sit around with other couples, talk about things other than work and school and relax and enjoy ourselves! I am so glad we have friends like them here <3. We left Ciao's and met up with some other friends at the Marriott Casino. We tried playing some machine - couldn't even tell you what it was or what we did...but we put $5 in and won $0.40. ha! Great Friday night here in Paradise!
Saturday morning came way to fast as well rolled out of bed and headed to Key's Beach on the Atlantic side of the island for a Beach Clean-up. Key's beach is a beach that many turtles nest at, so keeping it clean is a priority. There was so much garbage and it really felt great to help out and remove as much as we did. In total, we had to have removed hundreds of pounds!! Our car has stilllll been malfunctioning, and had no alternator fuse, which meant no power and nothing to charge the battery - so we werent sure we would make it home...and we didnt! We had to jump the car to leave and about 3 minutes from campus, it started sputtering and we died!! We had to call Kate to come pick up people we had driven there with us, Ross security to come sit with us and help us with locals, and then our mechanic who brought us a charged battery (he took it from his running car HA!) and had us follow him to his house. Luckily, he was able to find the short in the line and fix the fuse problem! So far our car has been running 'island great' (that means awful, but good enough for here! OISK!). We came home and found ourselves taking a 3 hour nap! The heat was exhausting!! Saturday afternoon Stephanie, Rob and myself went to the Royal St Kitts Golf Course and participated in a 5k/2k run/walk to benefit the St Christopher's Children Home. It was a great effort! Stephanie and I walked and Rob ran - he got second place in the men's division and hadn't run at all GO ROB!!!! He was recognized and won a trophy. Super exciting!! Poor Brayton stayed home and studied! We grilled steaks Saturday night and hung out with Trevor and Stephanie and Rob outside and played Black Jack ( so we could gamble next time we go to the casino...maybe!) and ate dinner! Again, I am so glad to have such great friends here!!
Sunday was a work day...we woke up and studied/lesson planned allll day! We did manage to find time this weekend to get in touch with a realtor who is hooking us up with some apartment viewings next weekend! We also start our SCUBA certification this week - we have class Wednesday for 3 hours and our first 'pool' dive for 4 hours on Saturday! I am really nervous, but super excited!!! We took a small break this evening and did some 'exploratory driving' around the island and found some cool areas we would really like to live in! Hopefully our apartment hunting takes us in all good directions!!
We have a crazy week ahead - Brayton has a Physiology exam and an Anatomy exam this week and the Prep School has a Mizzoula Children's Theatre here and we are putting on the musical Jungle Book Thursday - that means in 5 days, the entire school (apx 55 kids) are learning lines, moves, song, acting, etc. to put on a play Thursday! I'd like to see any HS musical team beat these kids! I am so excited to witness it all for the first time and see the kids perform on Thursday!!! SCUBA Wed and Sat, apartment hunting Sat, work and rest Sunday!
Everyone's Fall facebook statues are making me jealous - but I must say i LOVE sitting on my bed in shorts and a t-shirt, in October, with the windows open and it STILL being a good 80 degrees outside! This place is amazing! <3
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