Please help Leshon

At my mom's work, she has a colleague whose son has just been diagnosed with colitis. He is just three years old, he was born December 26th 2012! He had to fly to Trinidad and Tobago with his mom because no doctors here knew what was wrong. The poor little guy was bleeding and the doctors couldn't fix it.

In Trinidad he went to a special hospital and they were able to help. He is on very strong drugs, and he is only three!! Right now his little body is swollen from the drugs he has to take. But this is what he has to do to get better.

In Canada if Leshon had gotten sick like that, it would have been covered by our government. He also would have been able to go to a children's hospital where it would not be as scary to be treated. But here you have to pay for all your treatment, and for many families they can't afford to go to a doctor let alone go to Trinidad.

So Leshon's mom has to pay back about $6,000 Canadian dollars worth of medical bills. That is about $13,000 Eastern Caribbean Dollars or equivalent what most people make in a year!!  Leshon's mommy already works two jobs to support her family so she really needs help to pay off these bills.

My mom has set up this website to help raise money for Leshon's mom.

I want my class at Brighton Public School to organize a fun fundraiser to help this little guy and his mom! Please donate generously. My aunt is  going to bring the money we raise here for Easter. We'll post pictures and keep you updated.

Leshon before he got sick

Red Dress Hash

Today, my dad and I went to the red dress hash. A hash a cross country run/walk through different parts of Grenada. They range from an hour to 2.5-3 hour long treks.  This is the red dress hash because once there was a lady who decided to do a hash in a red dress and high heels. She probably didn't know what a hash was. So now every year they have one red dress hash to honour her.

This hash started at the Moca Spoke, a coffee shop and bike store near Saint George's University.

At the start of this hash they introduced a new symbol, a square! Some symbols you encounter are shredded paper circles or x's. A circle means pick one of two paths (one is the right way and one is the wrong way). The X means you went the wrong way. The square means pick one of however many paths there are.

Today there were eight different ways you could have gone! Or  "on, on"ed (it the hasher logo and it means follow me).  We went the wrong way.... three times and eventually found the right path. But then  we got called back to the start, so a guy could then bring us back to where we were! 

When we got to the top of the crazy steep hill we had to climb, we were at the end of the runway of the Maurice Bishop International Airport.

Hashes normally start at 2:30 p/m/ but this one started a t 4:00 I think they did this because when we got to the end of the runway an airplane went over our heads.

This was a short hash but went up a small mountain. The views were spectacular. My favourite view was of two yachts that were out in the harbour. One had a helicopter!

We finished within an hour. At the end we saw a co-worker from my mom's work at NEWLO.

All in all this was a good hash.

Cows from SGU's vet school

Limos!!

What most people's houses look like

SGU University & the end of the runway!

Rocks to keep the roof on

The 1% that is a helicopter on the deck of the "small" super yacht

Going down

Looking back up

Silly

Old drive in

Crazy bridge

Me and my dad

The yacht at port with it's helicopter

Rivers Rum Distillery

When you drive into Rivers Rum distillery you see  it is on a large piece of land. There is a sugar cane field on one side of the road  and old stone buildings on the other. You can see an old water wheel, that was imported from London, powering the sugar cane press. The wheel is at least two stories high. As you progress you can smell the scent of molasses and fermenting rum. The scent really hits you when you get out of your car.

When you start the tour you walk a small part of the property and arrive at the water wheel and sugar press. The water wheel lets off a spray of water, into the air- sometimes you can see a rainbow.

There is a huge pile of the squeezed sugar cane that they later burn, laying off to the side of the water wheel. In the next area of the tour, we go into a room they burn the sugar cane remains to evaporate the water to get a higher sugar concentration. Then the rum sits in large concrete tanks to ferment.

The next part of the tour explains how the evaporation and condensation makes the rum stronger to about 75-85% alcohol (for local consumption) and 69% alcohol to take home. When the tour is over you can taste all there rum -- it its very strong and feels like fire in your neck (so I have been told).

I really like Rivers Rum Distillery an if you find yourself in Grenada you should go. But if you are on a cruise ship don't go. You won't  have time to get there an back and won't have time to visit me

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