November Update!

Hi Everyone-

I hope this blog entry finds you all doing well.  This post will be an update for the past few weeks.  The power situation on the island still remains a challenge from time to time, but my bigger issue has been the internet at the house.  It works for 5 minutes then cuts out for a few hours.  So finding time to post has been a challenge.  I'll try to catch you up on what I've been doing though.

An old friend of mine from growing up happened to be coming to St. Kitts with her

 husband.  So I got to meet up with Kristy and her husband Quan twice during their stay.  I didn't get to hang out as much as I wanted, but I was able to visit which was nice!

My parents arrived after their long flight ordeal.  They were here for about 3.5 weeks and had a nice time visiting.  Upon their arrival we had a dinner at the condo in which Tina, Danielle, Javin, Mary & Dominic came together for a lovely dinner.  We've  also spent a lot of time pool side which Dominic enjoys more than anyone I know.  At the same time my parents were here there were several other people here from my travel forum.  We all had a nice time hanging out,

 visiting with old friends and getting to know new ones!  A bunch of us had a pot-luck dinner at the condo where we had delicious food and great company with lots of forum members!  We had many fun nights at the Shiggity Shack too!

At school we've had some fun times.  We had friends from my forum bring down a bunch of books and school supplies for my students.  It was really great!  My students loved the books, they are reading junkies.  It is really wonderful how much they love to read.  We also had a great Halloween celebration.  Students brought in all sorts of goodies and we have an afternoon full of reading spooky stories and eating!  It was great!

Since my last post, we also attended our second hash.  It was a lot of fun.  We went on a great hike up and over the mountains near Turtle Beach.  The views were wonderful and we had a great time.  Tina had her friend Danielle there from South Africa and Javin brought his friends Shaddy & Apo.  We all had a lot of fun!

Now that my parents are gone, they left me in the possession of

 a beautiful condo here in Frigate Bay.  I have beautiful breezes by day, and can hear and see the ocean crashing from inside.  There are also beautiful views of the 

pool and ocean from here.  I'll be here until mid-January.  The good news is that I am "borrowing" internet from my neighbor who has wireless but I don't have the US phone here.  So I'll mostly be available through e-mail, IM and Skype!

I hope that you are all doing well.  Please stay in touch!

Love,

Ms. Vics