Quick update (written Wednesday July 11, 2007)
July 13, 2007
It’s the middle of the week of our 6th week here. I think that’s right? Anyway, today I got my hands on a lot of Soca (think sped up calypso, real nice) off one of the guys I work with in the Ministry. The man who gave the music to me, Rinny (spelling?), is a real interesting guy from Gouyave. And now that I’m on the topic of real cool guys we’ve met here I’m starting to think about how much I’m going to miss this place when I leave.
We’ve made a lot of friends since we got here. Surprisingly enough we managed to become somewhat Grenadian ourselves and it’s something that I am proud of. Today in the IT office we got on the topic (with Rinny) [I just killed a huge mosquito] about the dialect here and how hard it is to understand the locals when they talk to each other. But we realized that we didn’t realize how much [I just killed another one] we already knew. We’ve been here for about six weeks and I really am feeling integrated into the life style here. Even though we are living in an American type community (and I use the term American loosely) we are still very experienced in the culture here. And that is something that I think has a lot of value, at least to myself.
However, there is one thing that I am most certainly not going to miss when I leave this place. Mosquitoes. I hate them.
That’s about all I have to complain about aside from being away from friends and family. And I am very used to being away from friends and family so it’s not as bad for me as it may be for others. Anyway, work has been easy this week. We have a week away from teaching in order to prepare for next week. So we’ve been hard at the type writers trying to update our manuals so they are suitable for a more experienced class; next week we are training teachers in Java (more Java, YAY). Aside from this I don’t have much else to report. Life is good but what else is new. Ciao.
