Hello oh thou lovely people!
It is Wednesday evening, and I am sitting at the table in our new apartment in Soufriere, which is where the iguanas are (supposedly anyways J). The story behind the new apartment is a lengthy one, let’s just say the old one wasn’t what we needed, so we are all very happy to be at this place now, it is not only big enough, but actually nice.
You might have gathered from this that I’m on iguana duty this week, which excitingly involves looking after the one that was caught when April and Karin were down here last. The big fellow, as I like to call him, isn’t actually massive but decent sized, and very pretty… although he is not too happy with being locked up in a cage, surprisingly enough…
Other than that there is nothing much to report, I’m afraid, poor me had to go on a shopping trip last Saturday, to acquire a much needed new pair of trousers (or pants, if that is more to your liking), as well as a new pair of flip flops. My favourite pair of fieldwork trousers has finally given in, much to my dismay, and my flip flops have decided to add a little adventure to walking about in the rain, or on anything slippery, so after a few rather ridiculous stunts in the past weeks, I decided it was time for a new pair.
Isn’t it good of me to share these exciting facts about my clothing with you? To dare think that you guys might have better things to do… oh well, there we go. So anyways, after all the hardship involved in running round a touristy Caribbean town in search of a pair of trousers which doesn’t fall apart as you look at it, I did the unmentionable and planted my ass firmly in the next fastfood restaurant, Burger King, u might have heard of it… can u believe it? There she is, in the middle of food excitingness, with about a thousand things on mind that I wanna try, and where do I go when things get tough? That’s right, to that Burger and Fries, washed down with a Sprite… shame on me. Oh how I enjoyed it...
So you see that there isn’t much happening, or I wouldn’t report on the lack of my culinary ventures in such detail. The rain has kept holding us in its grip for two weeks now, last week (yup, the week I was out camping) was madness, but fortunately it only got real bad after we got back. Friday saw the island in a near-shutdown, with small landslides and floods which made getting from A to B near impossible. We tried getting to our weekly meeting in Union, but got stopped about 10 mins down the road by a river that had decided to take over the road… It all can’t have been that much less bad than the Hurricane last year, and the damage from that is still evident all over the island. Those are the moments when you realise again that you’re sitting on this tiny island in the Caribbean, very much delivered to the mercy of the elements in a lot of ways. Which is as it should be, but it still sends a little thrill down ones spine…
That’s it from me for this week, hope you’re all well! Enjoy!
Carola
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