March 18-19

MARCH 18 Friday

Today we worked on English and Careers. The ILC careers book Quentin has to work in is not very good. It is very biased and directive. It's also very old... written in 2007 and the websites it tells him to go to don't work anymore. So we have to go searching the net to find other appropriate sites. Will have to see what we can do about finding stuff. And most of the sites are interactive so we have to sit on the internet while he figures out the answers.  Not good!

In the afternoon we dropped him off on the beach while we went to town to pick up a few groceries for his kids' bonfire...hot dogs, marshmallows. The kids wanted to sleep on the beach at FLipFLop beach. They have a big tiki hut with poles so the kids all hung hammocks and took blankets.  There were 5 of them ranging in age from 12 to 16. We all put our radios on Channel 5 in case they needed to call. At about 2:30 am one of the kids called Cookie Monster and Singing Frog. Tim answered but the kids couldn't hear us, so Tim came by and got one our radios to take to them. He said everything was fine but all the kids wanted to go home, they dropped Quentin off here. We will go and clean up the beach in the morning before we go back down to town.

SATURDAY MARCH 19

I am starting to get restless. I hope that the winds are favourable next week so we can get over to Rum Cay and drop off the trees and see if there is anything we can do. Not that I want to be there long but I need to change venue. The local kids have two weeks off for Easter so we won't be needed there. Stephane and Angelica won't be back for awhile and C-Soul and Beguiler have gone.

Yesterday Thomas from Brousel [German boat] came by and offered us his spinnaker. He had sold it to someone else who ended up not wanting it, so he asked if we wanted to try it. It works great but it is much smaller than the one we got from Bamboo. However, it also is in great shape. IF we keep both we will be much better equipped for light winds and won't have to motor so much.

After noon and after we go to clean up the beach, I have to meet Jeannie from Blue Heavens, to go over the Cruisers' Regatta info so I am a little bit prepared for next year being Co-chairman of the Regatta. Did I already tell you that somehow I got that job?? NO idea how that happened! I guess we're coming back here.

TtylJ