Week Six

We were woken up Wednesday morning by a huge rainstorm, which delayed the Scuba boat until the afternoon. The morning was spent in the dorms and, for some, dancing and jumping in the puddles around campus. North went out in the dive boat in the afternoon, but never ended up diving and a few decided to snorkel back to campus from the marina. Thursday was a normal day of classes, and most spent a busy study hours writing an Omeros paper for Humanities.  Friday was a beautiful day, and North was finally able to go diving and saw tons of amazing fish and a huge ray. South worked on Legacy projects back on campus.

Freetime jumping...

Saturday was another day of class, and we all spent it looking forward to the night’s activity, which was jumping off of high rock and doing a night snorkel. Everyone was both scared and excited, and ended up seeing an octopus and two enormous lobsters. The night ended with marshmallows around the bonfire.

Olivia jumping off High Rock on Saturday night.

Sunday was full of relaxing and working on art projects, and a lot of us took advantage of a beautiful day and went to the beach. Monday morning we broke off into East and West and did a psycho for morning exercise, and everyone had a lot of fun. That was followed by another day of classes and the day ended with everyone working on the upcoming History Assesment about the evolution of Junkanoo. On Tuesday, everyone woke up to run and swim tracks, and spent the morning doing some last minute cramming for the research oral assessment. Everyone did fine, except the Aquaponics team, who delayed the exam to harvest lettuce for dinner.

Aquaponics salad!

Wednesday morning was sleep-in day, which everyone appreciated, and was followed by Scuba diving for south and working on Junkanoo costumes for north. The afternoon was scheduled for Community Outreach, but it was soon discovered that their classes had been dismissed because of a water shortage at the primary school. The seventh grade group, however, got to teach their kids how to kayak, which as a lot of fun for everyone. The long day ended with a trip in the truck over to sunset beach to watch the sunset. It was a beautiful and welcome break to study hours. As we all get closer to our last week of academics, we are all getting ready for the upcoming 8 day kayak and down island trips.

Sunset

Shoutouts

Ashton-hey guys-whaddup Frick, Donnie, Kylie, Christiana, Fanny, Grace, people.  This place is sweet. Send me stuff just don’t send any food or candy cus they search packages.  I am doing the super swim which is 4 miles in the open ocean.  Scuba is nasty, the classes are pretty hard.  I have a hilarious watch tan.  I can’t wait to see all you guys, hope being in CT doesn’t suck too much.  The Bahamas are pretty sweet.  You guys better send some more stuff cus I am pretty disappointed with the package count so far.  See you soon June 13th

George- Hey everyone back in MI and anyone else who bothers to read this. I hope everything is the same back at CK and I cannot wait to come home this summer, straight into BAC swim season. After swimming four miles Bill’s practices will be nothing. I am still my pale old self, despite the raging sun here except now I have some pretty bug bites. Cannot wait to see everyone again in like two months.

Andrea: To all the Rattazzi-Moehlmann-Whittles, Ketty, Luna, Lola, Nightingale girls, Australians, Romans, The Turk, and everyone else back home: I MISS YOU! I’m having so much fun here and I hope everything’s going well in the city and wherever you all are around the world. Write letters and I promise I’ll write you back, because stupidly I didn’t bring any addresses so… you need to supply me with those. I can’t really think of anything to say except for that I’m tan and I can (slowly) run more than 5 miles without stopping… I love all of you to the moon and back.

Kelly- HEY EVERYBODY- hope all is well at home! The Island School is amazing but I can’t wait to see everyone!! Mom, Dad, Will, MK, and Tommy I cannot wait to see you this weekend, and all my friends are looking forward to meeting you! Mom and Dad you are the best parents anyone could ask for. Also, Willy, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOYY, sorry I missed it- it was so good to talk to you tonight! Mary Katherine, I just wanted to say that you are the best sister a girl could ask for, and cannot wait to be with you in the summer! Also, I wanna give a shout out to my one and only, ERIKA BAIN! I misss you girl!!! I absolutely love the letters and updates from you, I don’t know what I would do without you! I can’t wait for the summer with you, its gonna be AMAZING, especially Costa Ricaa!!! I don’t even think you realize!! Also, I know this is kinda early, but HAPPY 17th BIRTHDAY! =) YOU ARE THE BEST AND YOU ARE MISSED IN INCREDIBLE AMOUNTS! I also want to give a shout out to Kendall and Sarah- my babiess I miss you soo much! Hope Las Vegas was everything you imagined and more! Kendall, I can’t wait to see you in the summer and finish watching ANTM season with you! Sarah, there are signs everywhere of PLP and it reminds me of you! Lyndsay Daubert, I miss you sooo muchhh its unbelievable, I can’t wait to see you in the summer!!!  I love you soo much and misss you!!! Lindsay Noga and Maggie, I MISSS D period with you and congrats on the upcoming graduation- can’t wait to see you in the summer!!I miss you guys and can’t wait to see you! I will be home soon!