This is St. Kitts...

It's been quite a trying week.

My internet has been out most of the week, thankfully it is working currently. I've been fighting with The Cable (yes, that is the name of the cable company here) to get it fixed and to fix billing errors, but somehow they manager that I keep getting transferred to is never there... interesting...

Also, we (as in the entire island) have been out of power a lot this week. Here is why: St. Kitts News If you don't want to read the article, short of it is that the power generators on the island are failing one after another and they can't seem to get them fixed. Sweeeeeeet.

The weather has been... how can I describe this... well, monsoon like. Yes, monsoon-ish. Raining HARD, most of the day. Wait, Laura, aren't you from Oregon? Shouldn't rain be no problem for you? Well yes, thank you for noticing blog, I am from Oregon and normally I enjoy rain, but it is a bit different here. In St. Kitts the roads get washed out, gaughts are flooded and carry little cars away. (Gaught, by the way, appears to be a St. Kitts-ism for a gulley that transects a road to try and carry water from uphill down to the sea to prevent flooding. Not sure if anywhere else calls them gaughts, but they label them here as such.) If you want to see what the next 10 days will look like here, just check this out. Now, my absolute most favorite part of this whole monsoon weather has definitely been my 2nd story apartment flooding.

Wait, whaaaaaaaaa?

Yup. 2nd story apartment. Flooded. Ish.

One of my windows has a problem with it, and somehow managed to appear 100% closed, but was not, and instead of keeping water out, seemed to funnel gallons of rainwater into my apartment behind my couch and desk in a matter of hours. It took all of my freshly cleaned towels then some to mop up all of the water. It was like having a cute little waterfall from my window sill onto my floor. Cute, if it were outside. A royal pain if inside your house.

So, that's about it. Studying has been oh so exciting.... meh.

Happy Memorial Day Weekend all! I'll be in class on Monday, so enjoy your day off (if you have it) for me!

Sorry

I've been neglecting you my blog, again.

3rd Semester... filled with -ologies. (Virology, Bacteriology, Pathology and Pharmacology)
What is the upside you ask? The awesome schedule. Out at noon every day except Monday and Wednesday.
Isn't that a downside too? Yes, why yes it is. Now I have more time to play volleyball. Darn! Yes, I'm being sarcastic.

No new pictures. WAIT! Yes, there is one. Not sure you want to see it. I'll give you a bit of background before you see it.

Matt is in Oregon right now. He'll be back in June, don't worry. He is having fun visiting friends, family, the dentist, judo clubs... etc. Mostly fun stuff anyway. PLUS, he gets to hang out with Zoe and eat Wendy's spicy chicken sandwiches, so that is pretty cool.

So, night #2 after Matt left was interesting. I hardly slept at all, tossing and turning, waking up all the time. No no no, not because I missed him (which I do, but that didn't keep me up), it was the scratching noises on my window from birds that kept waking me up, but in my sleep I wasn't worried about the birds, I was worried about... CENTIPEDES. Killer centipedes to be exact. Why? If you really want to know, not sure if you do, those who are faint of heart may not want to continue reading... and skip past the pictures too. Last warning...

Still reading? Ok... I warned you! The night started as it always does, getting ready for bed, pulling back the covers, crawling into bed, adjusting the pillows so they're just right, etc. I hadn't turned the light off yet, because I was doing some bed-time interneting before going to bed. With my head on my pillow I saw something out of the corner of my eye, as I turned towards that moving object my worst St. Kitts nightmare was realized. There was a killer centipede crawling up my bedpost and onto my pillow. About 2 inches from my face. IT WAS COMING FOR ME!!! And of course, this happened while Matt was gone, so I had to kill the scary thing all on my own. It took several smacks with a shoe, some bug spray and a decapitation, but I finally killed it, swept it up, and flushed it.

Yeah, I know... try sleeping after that!

Well, that has pretty much been my semester so far. Pretty boring.

I'll try to post more often. All my free time out of class is just getting in the way of my blogging though... haha.

P.S. Matt's Birthday was a couple weeks ago. Happy belated Birthday Matt! I forgot to take pictures of his birthday dinner though. Oops...

Mom's Visit

and now I've been catching up on my sleep. Mom wore me out!

Catamaran trip to Nevis

Followed by lounging on the beach... in the rain (off and on, in a bearable way)

History and great views abound

complete with creepy mannequins that may, or may not be a little too life-like...

and what you can't see are the half dozen monkeys playing just behind us

ruins + rain water accumulation?

am I zip-lining or sky diving... this harness is intense!

excited for line #1!

if only I was brave enough to take pictures about 100 ft from where Mom is now!

:)

Only in St. Kitts.... great picture Mom!

Riding in a tiny car on the wrong side of the road is always an adventure!

Thanks for a great vacation Mom :)