First Time @ the Schools

SEPTEMBER 9TH


On this day we visited one of the elementary schools.. I don’t remember the name of it but I remember it really well because we get there, it’s stinking hot. At first we spent some time getting Kirk introduced to the principal who was fascinated by him. Then out of no where, there came this massive cloudburst… it seriously rained like 7 inches in the half hour we were there, it was crazy! Anyway we got a chance to hang out with the kids then… Their roof wasn’t thatched though so they had a ton of leaks. It was dripping water left and right. Man I wish I wrote these blogs the day of so I could remember everything.

I remember that I talked to the principal a lot… he came up and just started talking about what it’s like to work there, his family, the island, everything. He stopped at one point to make a super random comment about my eyes, how much he liked them and how he’d never seen anything like them… which I thought was really odd. See people on the island have really strong accents and sometimes tend to talk really fast… he just said something about it and then went right back to the conversation… it was really bizarre.

That night we had crawfish that the boys caught for dinner, and baked potatoes. Us girls decided we wanted to set up a nice table so we set it up with a sheet and plates and prepared a lot of side dishes and fruit for them… It was really fun… it’s like a giant game of house.

We also passed the time drawing pictures on the board of the daily events, which I have a few pictures of up on my Facebook I believe.



SEPTEMBER 10TH

Another school day…another elementary school. We get to this one and again, it’s their lunch time, we get to just hang with them. After talking to some of the kids and learning their names and ages etc… some asked me to play teeter totter, that was fun and then I pushed a few on the swings. When lunch was over, all the kids were gathered into one room so that we could do a kind of presentation for them. We did a funny version of the story of Jonah… I’ll try and get the little bit of video that I have of it up later but it was pretty funny to watch. I liked the way we did it where most of us got involved in the story telling and asking questions, which I think made it more interesting for the kids. In the end, they kinda wanted to know more about Kirk than anything else… this one little girl just kept asking question after question and she was so cute about it too!

After the school we went to this beach at the end of the island.. It was beautiful, just like all the other beaches. I got to climb a tree there, which I love doing only I had to jump right back out cause there was a bee… still fun. On the way back I changed cars and rode with Bethany in P. Jimmy’s truck. We both kinda dozed off the whole way back… there was one point I woke up cause P. Jimmy had stopped to get this mango for Bethany, they were out of season but he got one! (BEST MANGO I’VE EVER HAD IN MY LIFE!) It took us a lot longer to get back than it took everyone else… by the time we got back everyone was at our house. Anthony and Bethany ended up going off somewhere while we hung out online and I drew on the wall… We had really delicious pasta for dinner… and again, I can’t remember any other details from this day! I know that they watched a movie cause it’s in my notes and I couldn’t but I don’t remember what I did instead…?