Xanga is telling me that I need to post something or else I'm going to lose everything I have here.  I guess that's what happens are almost a year of no posts.  I should probably save everything I have here just in case they decide to shut me down anyways.

Anyways, I miss Grenada tons along with everyone there and who went with me.  This summer is quite a bit different but it'll still be a good experience.  Frederick, MD is worlds away from anything the likes of Grenada.  Haha!

Where did this week go?!?!  Man it's already Thursday night.    Well here's a little overview of how our week went:

Sunday:  Rainbow City Festival in Grenville with Dr. Ian Baptiste.  He picked us up and on the way we stopped along the side of the road for some bashi soup.  He saw a childhood friend cooking and decided to stop for a while.  Yummy soup too.  The festival was pretty cool too.  The music in some parts were insanely loud.  You can see from the pictures that I added earlier in the week that some people broke off branches from trees and bounced them up and down when Trees played.  HAHA!  I love that song and how people react to it.  Inside the gates of where the festival was held it reminded me of a town festival at home.  Performing groups from around town.  Little kids singing and dancing, a gymnastics group showing off some of their stuff, senior citizens dancing, and things like that.  It was cute and not quite what I expected.  I had expected it to be like outside the gates was.  There are pictures of us dancing around and such.  That was the best part.

Monday:  Since no one seemed to like what day the holiday landed on last week, they moved it to Monday.  Ok.....Anyways, no work of course.  But it did rain all day.  Not too much to do when that happens.

Tuesday:  No work yet again because of the rain that day and the day before.  Evidently to go to where the satellites are on this island you have to climb some mad hills and the guy didn't want to show us around in all mud.  We later told Mr. Cato that they might think of things like service roads once everything gets up and running.  It rained this day too a bit. 

Wednesday:  No work yet again.  Jimmy, Brenden, and I went to the market for one last time.  We got all final souvenoirs.  I also got a coconut water while I was there.  It wasn't that great.  I was a little disappointed.  Oh well it was just a coconut.  Haha!

Thursday (today):  Work finally!  Well what really happened was that since the ground was not hard enough we just went to the Ministry and Mr. Cato showed us how the Grenadian WAN will be set up and what and where the components will be.  It was interesting.  Then we sat around for a while, caught a bus back to the hotel, and hung out with our friend Sonia for a while by the pool.  It was a good day   Tonight we're supposed to be going to a karaoke night at a bar in town.  I'm the photographer.  Don't want to do much else   Haha!

Well tomorrow is our farewell ceremony and we decided to hit up one more Fish Friday.  Maybe I'll get some last comments in before leaving on Saturday morning.  Later!

Last night was a pretty chill night.  I wasn't feeling the greatest but sat and walked on the beach with the guys.  My spirits perked up a bit when we stopped at this little bar along the beach.  I didn't want anything so I waited outside at a table for the others to come back out and some girl came running out towards me.  She asked me if I was a Nittany Lion because she saw my shirt (it said Penn State on it).  I said yes and it turns out she was too!  Another Penn Stater in Grenada.  Haha!  It was pretty cool.  What a small world.  You have to travel thousands of miles to meet someone you live in the same city as.  Haha!  Well after we walked back to the hotel we decided to go for a late night swim.  It was pretty cool.  I didn't stay long but it was fun while I was there.

Today we ate breakfast and then played some tennis.  Yes tennis.  There are courts here and they have rackets at the front desk, you just have to ask for them.  At first I thought it was going to be a miserable rainy day but it cleared up while we were playing.  It got really hot out and we headed for the pool.  Stayed there for hours and ate lunch, layed out, played on the rocks (see the new pics), and hung out in the whirlpools.  Later I went in search of mangos but the vendors within a mile of here didn't seem to have any that late in the day.  I settled for a mango smoothie from the mall.  Haha!  Settled....haha.

Rene's mom wants to cook dinner for us tomorrow!  How sweet of her is that?  Looks like we're going to our last Fish Friday tomorrow night.  It's sad because now that I'm looking back at this summer it doesn't feel like I've been here for 9 weeks already.  I've had the time of my life and will always remember this experience.  I'm going to miss it.

So here's a part about this internship that I think should be worked on for next year:

Have cell phones.  Get at least one cell phone for the entire group with plenty of minutes for local calls.  Find out how much it would reasonably cost for the summer for a given amount of local calls and then whatever the students use beyond that they pay for themselves or something like that.  Communication between us and the Ministry people was so much better when we had cell phones.  I've been deemed the communications person of the group so they mostly called me, so at least one cell phone.  We had to turn the ones the University Club gave us in before we left yesterday.  I emailed Mr. Thomas and Mr. Cato about this change yesterday afternoon but the email wasn't received until a little too late this morning and Mr. Thomas had been trying to reach our cell phones.  No cell phone = some problems.