I'm getting very tan

This is us at Trench Town. We were playing Indian poker.

This is our classroom. I didn't have any other exciting pictures to put up this time.

Hola,

Sorry I haven't written in awhile, I've been slacking. Friday was a pretty fun day. We pretty much had classes all day but then we went on a night snorkel. We left around 8 to go snorkeling. Everyone had an underwater flashlight and all of the instructors had glow sticks. We saw a baby nurse shark, some HUGE porcupine fish and some people saw a little octopus but I didn't since I can't free dive. Oh, we also went to the fish processing plant on Friday to see the workers skin conch. Unfortunately it was a slow day so we only saw 1 worker removing the scales from some fish. She did it with a thing that looked like a vegetable peeler.

Yesterday we had site clean up in the morning as well as meetings. For clean up I was on pier duty so I had to scrub the ladder and help pick up litter. We just had a student meeting to discuss how everything is going and what not, then the staff came in and we told them what we came up with. In the afternoon we had an optional snorkel. I didn't go because we have like 80 fish id's to learn by next Monday, so I got started on that. I was supposed to go to the wellness center again for community outreach so I took my freshwater shower before that so I would smell all nice. After I showered, I found out I had gotten switched to be on games with the kids that weren't in swimming lessons (yay). So I ended up playing dodgeball and sweating my butt off so my freshwater shower was totally wasted this week. I did, however, learn how to play dominoes. Turns out I'm very good at it because no one can predict what I'm going to do. I also learned a new card game from one of the local kids, it doesn't really have a name, and no one really knows the rules, but I played it and won a round. For dinner we had the conch that we knocked on Thursday in conch salad. It was very good. They boiled the conch, then chilled it and served it with chopped peppers, onions, tomatoes, and some sort of dressing. The conch itself tastes a lot like imitation crab meat.

Today was our day off so after brunch a bunch of us went to the beach to swim, tan, and just hang out. It was a lot of fun and now I am ridiculously tan. When we got back, I found out a few of the girls here played volleyball in high school so we played volleyball for a little bit. We are starting to run out of food so we are all hoping the big ship with all of the food comes soon.

Well, that's about it for here, nothing too exciting. I hope everything is going well back in the states.

-Michelle