Kayyteee

Got up late today. Last night we had Grenadas first thunder storm. I didn’t check the clock but it was early this morning (2-3 a.m.?) and I woke up to rain on the tin roof and howling winds. I had to get up quickly and shut all the windows (Neville has warned me that when it rains, the rain goes sideways and after looking out the window last night he is right!! The trees were bent at 45 degree angles and were whipping around violently. I’m kind of looking forward to moving into my dorm, I think I will feel a bit safer in an apartment on the bottom floor with cement apartments all around me rather then up in the hills in a small cottage with a tin roof. The whole thing was kind of scary, hope we don’t have too many thunder storms like that. As a result it was hard to sleep and even though I had every intention to get up early, it didn’t happen. I finally got around to leaving the apartment by about 8:45. I headed straight to the CK grocery store to pick up cleaning supplies and a mop to clean my new dorm room and was just rounding the corner when I heard “Kaytteeeee” little Annabella and Alexandria were already there! Annabella has just learned my name the last couple of names and she uses it frequently not only to refer to me but kitties and doggies too lol. It was super nice of Alexandria, she tagged along and helped me scrub the mold out of my dorm room top to bottom. It doesn’t even look like the same room anymore and it smells completely different. We did notice that the A/C is not working dependably, might have to get it repaired… Lucky we got it all cleaned –moving day is tomorrow and I am excited. We had a short break after all the cleaning and went to the little spiceland mall across the street to get smoothies. These are honestly the best smoothies I think I’ve had in my life! So far I’ve been there 3 times. The first two I had bananna but today I tried bananna with chocolate –It was heavenly and good value for only 3$ Can!! We took one of the school buses back to the apartment, and headed straight back to the beach after I got my diving referral. I’m officially signed up now to take SCUBA on Monday morning at 8:30 and Tuesday morning at 8:30 for two dives per day. I’m a bit nervous to dive for the first time but it is definitely outweighed by excitement to see all the cool fish!! I’ve got this apprehension sometimes with the ocean but I’m figuring out its more to do with not being able to see the bottom. I noticed with the dive course that I’m much more confident and have a blast when it comes to actually being in the water, able to see what is going on as opposed to water sports where I’m on top of the water. After a quick dip and a tour up and down the entire beach I’m so excited to be living so close to it.
Tomorrow is looking like it will be a really interesting day. One of the men working on candleglows expansion invited the four of us to go to church with him. I’m going to go and see what a carribean church is like and we’ll be back sometime around 1pm. Then Rita and Neville have invited me over for lunch tomorrow afternoon and have graciously offered their gardners assistance in transporting all of my junk to the dorm rooms for tomorrow afternoon. It seems like my bags have multiplied since I arrived so I hope all of it fits in whichever car we end up taking!! The dorms are supposed to have wireless internet in the study rooms so I am super psyched that I will soon be in touch with everyone again. By Friday I will have all the paperwork to order my own internet and I’ll be able to get the vonage set up as well –can’t wait!!