Happy List!

Motivated to do this blog after reading my friend's blog about her 'Happy Things' list she posted today!

- Woke up extra early today- and show the aftermaths of the sun setting over the mountains onto the sea. The sky had a thin pink line of clouds followed by the baby blue of clouds! It was a lovely way to wake up!

- Being able to take a nap in the morning after seeing the beauty and before church

- Coffee and Tea all morning!

- A cool but sunny day!

- Watching Austin cough into his elbow!

- Completing my WHOLE To Do List!

- Eating Mike and Ikes while Studying!

- Finishing my book

- Knowing that on Saturday I will take my GRE and it will be one less I have to concern myself with! Knowing that after my test, Alicia will be waiting for me so we can celebrate by going to the beach that we are BOTH done with our exams!

- Mexican food on Tuesday with my lovies!

- Streaming my two favorite TVs on line!

- In bed before 10P

xoxox

Books Books and MORE Books!

The agency that I work with is connected with a young lady, she is around twelve or thirteen and is living in the States. She has family from Dominica and wanted to give back to Dominica. She thought the best may to give back to Dominica was to assit in the students and literacy! Throughout the course of the year she has collect various books and educational books for all grades and then shipped them down to Dominica! The office staff and myself had the task of empty out the barrels (which are about four feet tall and I cannot reach the bottom of the barrel if it is standing straight up!) and sort all of the books! The books will be going to five different schools, one being the primary school in my village!


Thetwo barrels about about an eighth of the books that were donated!


It is amazing to see selfless giving hearts in action!

Antigua- Part #2

On the last night, when it was just the girls! The boys left on Sunday and the girls stayed until Tuesday! The hotel invited us all to the beach where they did cultural dances and a little fire show!



Enjoy the pictures from the event! If you want to see the rest of them click HERE

Antigua!

The view of the pool of the wedding chapel!

We all need a little Holiday and I am very excited of the location where I live because I can get on a little and I mean LITTLE plane and hop to another island! After a very busy summer four volunteers and myself went to Antigua for relaxation! We stayed at an all-inclusive resort right by the sea. Because there was a storm passing the sea was too rough to swim in but we enjoyed the breeze and the smell of the sea!


The group after my favorite meal! Italian!

I could not of asked for a better group to travel with! We are all very low key individuals, all waited the same thing out of our vacation, and just enjoyed each other! My week included laying pool side only to be bothered when it was time to eat a meal, make bracelets, play table tennis, tie-dye, and twice we did a little water aerobics or take our afternoon nap in the AC! We are very simply travelers!


-Alicia and I making our bracelets!

I Have Missed You!

Hey Everyone!

Let me tell you I have missed you but I needed a minute away from blogging I guess. I am glad to be back telling you all about my lovely life. The question is where do I even begin! A lot and a little has happened over the last month or so!

I will give you some snap shots of the last while in my life and then check out my blog for more details of the events! I spent six lovely days with four lovely individuals sitting poolside, eating really good and laughing until tears were rolling down our faces! I emptied out 2 barrels of books to give to five different schools! Dominica made a National appearance on a TV show! The weather got a little fierce! My volleyball career is on a hold for the moment! After a year my beautiful skirt came out of the closet!

Roseau City Council Awards Ceremony!

On September 11th, the city of Roseau (the capital) had their fourth annual awards ceremony. These ceremonies are to recognize and celebrate the hard work and dedication of individuals, companies, volunteer clubs, and government ministries. The award ceremony were started four years with the assistance of a Peace Corps Volunteer.



Now, each year two to three PCVs will assist the Roseau City Council in putting on the awards. Let me tell you, it is a lot of hard work, many e-mails/phone calls later, to ensure this awards ceremony is a success. We order our trophies from Crown Trophy , a company in the States. That has a whole bunch of obstacles to over come. Crown Trophy is amazing, their trophies are gorgeous, the costumer service is excellent (even via e-mail) and they are very timely!



The Roseau City Council honored about 27 individuals and/or companies, had about four performances (singing by the young, singing by the old, steel pan, and a musical group). As well as different speeches by the headline sponsors and citations read by the awardees.



Compared to last year- it went AMAZING! Even though last year was GREAT as well! There were little to no problems in the programs, the decorations were great (Thanks to my Host Mom- Shirley), All of the Awardees showed up, the performances were out of this world. At the end of the Ceremony I asked one of the MCs how it went compared to last year, she looked at me with a sign of relief, and said, A lot better!



At the end of the day, I am happy with it! My production team did great! I have never answered so many questions in my life about where people should stand, where this should go, and who is performing when! I will miss it next year but I know it will be even more of a success next year as we continue to honor those who are doing great things for the city of Roseau!

Camp!

As you all know, I ran a 3 week long summer camp! After the summer camp, I had craft ideas, camp schedules, contacts, and EVERYTHING you need to run a summer camp even if you had never ran one! I had a Plan A, a Plan B, and half of a Plan C! Instead of just throwing the papers or keeping them to myself, I wanted to share them. With a lot of help from my Co-Director, Alex (PCV), we put together "How to Run a Camp for Dummies!" Alex designed the covered and help me put it all together!

After showing the island director, he is going to send it to the Eastern Caribbean main office to see if we can get some funds to print more them to pass out in Dominica or throughout the island!

I am leaving some tangible here on the lovely Nature Isle!