Feb 25
School teachers' day...I can tell you I dreamed about this
all night...guess I was worried about doing a presentation in front of live
people, none of whom I knew! I managed
to arrange a ride for the 5 miles to the College of the Bahamas where the teacher's
conference was being held. The owner of Red Boone was lending Jillian his car
to drive me. I would find my way back. Everyone hitch-hikes here. When I got to Red Boone Choppy was not there.
Jillian had called him a he was at the south end of the island. I had lots of
time, so I wasn't worried. And just then, Cordell drove up. I asked if he was
going home but he was staying in town all day. He said he would drive me up
there but first he had an errand. He
told me to wait and walked to the Bank. As luck would have it, Choppy came
rushing up and said, Get in, I have to go the north end of the island I'll drop
you off. "So I did!
When he dropped me off, he said he'd be back in an hour and
pick me up if I was ready. When the session was over, I decided to start
walking figuring he would see me on the road. Unfortunately, when he stopped to
se e if I was ready, I was next door at the Meat market getting a bottle of
water, and he missed me. So I walked
about 4 miles, not knowing what the signal was for wanting a ride. I got as far
as the car rental place and Emmet was getting ready to deliver a car downtown, so
he gave me a ride the last 2 miles. I was
fine, just hot and tire, but I was completely justified after that eating the
fries and drinking a beer!
The presentation was well received, especially the already
prepared 22 lessons! As I was leaving one of the pre-school teachers stopped me
and asked me to help with an Island Pre-School Day. 75-80 rug rats...I
mean...pre-schoolers will be gathered at the Park and she wants to set up an
art station where they can do some painting or craft. Would I help? How can I
say no, so if we are still here I will do it?
Quentin has a busy week ahead of him as well, helping with the
stage setup this morning, and the Kid's Games today. Although, he got out of
that commitment because he was working longer at the stage than anticipated.
Tomorrow morning he's needed at 7:00 am. Tomorrow is also the Variety show
where he gets to enter the conch blowing contest!!
Today I entered him in the fun Volleyball tournament; the
baseball game; the Coconut Challenge with his friend Richard from Vivens Aqua, me and Mark from C-Soul.
He is also entered in the blind dinghy race, the kayak race and the make-your-own
sail race.
Cordell's breadfruit trees are here so we will be helping him
re-pot and get them set up for sending to the other islands. When the Regatta s
over, there are a lot of boats going to Long Island for a rally, and we are all
taking breadfruit trees with us, to re-grow the trees on the islands.
Next few days are a whirlwind of activity, but if you want
to see some of the things happening, check out the videos on cruisesailboat.com. Stephane is
videoing the regatta for the website.
Quentin has gone to shore with Lee from Alesto, the electrician he has been helping. Lee is parked in front
of us so he will bring Quentin back tonight in time for supper, and we can go
to the Rake and Scrape with Mark & Gail.
Later...
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