Another week in
the books. This week our big project in school was to finish making paper-mâché
Easter eggs. Each of the students made
one egg and next week they will be painting them and then stuffing them with
candy for the Easter egg the following week.
Monday and Tuesday afternoons were pretty relaxed. Dinner, yoga, and bed would pretty much
summarize my night. Wednesday night we
had church and Thursday night Abby and I taught piano lessons. Friday, however,
was not a normal day.
Friday was
sports day at school and man was I exhausted!
My day started at 7:30 when I arrived at school. I started helping to set up around 8 and by 9
students were out on the field ready to go.
Basically my job for the day was to help set up each of the races. There were multiple heats of each race, so as
soon as the first group went I was helping set up for the next group. The
students were involved in a variety of races throughout the day. Cones and markers, three legged, sack race,
potato and spoon, hanging clothes, socks and shoes, marble rolling, balls in
the buckets, and running to the finish line.
Each student was assigned to 3 races and the final run to the finish
line everyone did. The students took a
break for snack, but during this time the parents did their races. The only “break” I got was about a minute in
between the few races to drink some water and put some more sunscreen on. It was such a long day, but it was kind of
fun to be so involved with it.
I
was very thankful that we had an early release and I was able to make it home
around 1:30. Upon arrival, I changed out
of my jeans and tshirt and laid down in bed.
I literally could not move for a good hour and a half. Tanya got home and we unwinded with a bit of Chairman’s
before heading to Jade Terrace (a Chinese restaurant) for dinner before
CIA. Our new neighbors upstairs were
blasting their music super loud, so we all got out of the house for the
night. Tanya came with us for CIA this
week as it was held at Antilla brewery.
Once everyone arrived we had our bible study and then played Taboo. It was a fun night and I really enjoyed
having CIA outside of church.
Yesterday
started off like any other Saturday, except I actually slept in! Not often will I sleep past 8:30, but I woke
up around 9:30 only to find both of my roommates were awake already. I did some laundry and attempted to watch
Pastor Ben’s sermon while eating my pancakes.
Tanya, Abby and I started to look into booking our activities for
Barbados, but weren’t able to come up with a solid plan. I skyped Megan and then Najma came over for a
little bit so we could finish our planning for the week. We found out that we are a lot more creative
with our lessons when we lesson plan on the weekend, unfortunately we normally
can’t do this as lessons are supposed to be in on Fridays. I talked with mom on the phone for a little
bit and was able to practice guitar and watch a little TV, before Staci came to
pick us up.
We
spent out afternoon/evening at the Landwehr house. They live up the hill from Calabash Cove, so
we enjoyed a relaxing afternoon on the beach with a decent sunset. We then hiked back up the hill to their house
for an amazing dinner of grilled chicken.
I need to learn how to cook like that!
After dinner we played a game called Deer in the Headlights before
heading back home. Last night for whatever
reason I could not do math for the life of me, and Jonas enjoyed giving me a
hard time about that. It made me feel
right at home.
This
morning I woke up a little before my alarm.
This allowed me to actually get some laundry done before church. Church was great as always and upon arriving
home I cleaned and ate some lunch.
Almost every Sunday we come home and have hashbrowns for lunch. I normally have a smoothie to go along with
it. Tanya, Abby, and I booked a few of
our activities in Barbados. A day trip
and a sunset cruise are currently planned.
We’ll see what else we are able to do while we are there. I did some
school work and then relaxed a bit before heading to the supermarket with
Abby. While there someone asked if we
were his neighbor, to which my reply was “Umm… maybe.” Yes, he is one of the new tenants who lives
upstairs. He seemed nice and walked back
with us from the supermarket. Hopefully
we’ll get to meet the others soon. Maybe
if we make a good enough impression they’ll be a little bit quieter
upstairs. I guess we’ll see! We’ve been
spoiled for the last 6 months having no one upstairs. Tonight we are headed over to Jen’s for piano
and pizza biscuits (Ian’s new creation).
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| Making smoothies out of "glow" foods |
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| In our house shirts :) |
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| The gorgeous sunset. I love this part about St. Lucia |
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| Beach life |
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