Island

Journal #23

On the Island

January 25, 2012

On the Island

I started the day with eating breakfast at the hotel- watermelon and toast. I will for sure miss all of the fresh fruit when I return to the States! After breakfast, I grabbed my computer and backpack, and headed towards the High School with the rest of the group.

At the high school, we sat in the computer lab with our laptops and waited for the high schoolers to come in. One by one, they started to come in to check out what we were doing. I had the privilege of working with two boys that had come in. One of the boys had a computer at home, and the other one did not. It was fun to teach them both different things that we could do with my laptop and it was also fun to get to know them. Through teaching somebody, I feel that I had the opportunity to learn so much and have great discussions with both of the boys.

After we left the high school, we had the rest of the day until dinner to explore more of the island. Sarah, Amelia, and I decided that we wanted to do some window-shopping. We spent a bit of time looking at all of the little shops on the island. We then decided that we wanted some lunch, so we stopped at a restaurant that was on the side of the beach. The restaurant had swings instead of seats at the tables and the floor was sand. I ordered a Caribbean quesidilla which had chicken, pineapple, cheese, and sour cream.

When we finished lunch, we headed back to the hotel to change into our swim wear so that we could head down to the beach for our last day of swimming in the ocean. During our swim, we went out pretty far so I could find a star-fish for Amelia. I was very successful and found a large, very pretty star-fish. We took lots of pictures and got to feel the star-fish move around while we were holding it.

We then headed back to the hotel room again so we could get ready for dinner. Tonight we were going out to a fancy dinner at an Italian restaurant and we were super excited to get to eat some good food finally! Before dinner, we walked the streets of the town to see if anything fun was going on for the Chinese New Year. We found a parade with lots of drums and cymbals on one of the main roads. We then headed to meet the rest of the group at dinner. I had fettuccine with peas, mushrooms, and chicken. The meal was very filling, was served in a timely manner(!), and was delicious!

After dinner we quickly went back to the balcony of the hotel to have class. Tonight we had more presentations from students about issues related to their majors. It was awesome to have class with the warm ocean breeze, clear sky, and stars!