Cricket Rules

On Friday I didn’t go to school because the West Indies cricket team was playing England and we were never going to a cricket game in Canada so we decided to go.

 

Seeing as this was our first time watching cricket we knew very little about the game (and rules). Our plan was to take someone who knew how cricket is played, but no one was around.

 

When we got to the stadium the cricket game had been going on for 3 and a half hours (it starts at 10 o’clock). The game is pretty self-explanatory and we got the hang of what was going on (with a little help from the people around us). Once we started to understand what was going on the game was alot more exciting and we stayed until around 5 o’clock.

 

I had a really good time and learned a new sport. Sadly England won by nine wickets (don’t really know what that means).

Back to school

On Tuesday my brother and I started school again. I was kinda happy to be back but mainly because I like my teachers.

The subjects I have here that I don't have in Canada are:

• Spanish
• Technical Drawing (extra classes)
• Home Economics
• Geography
• Caribbean History
• Religious Studies

Everyday at school we have an assembly talking about God (this is a "non-religious" school) this is only supposed  to take 30 minutes but can last up to a hour and a half in +30 degree weather everyday. The assembly starts and ends with praying.

After the assembly we wait 20 + minutes for the teacher to arrive sometimes they don't even come! Sometimes when they come  they just  give work and leave and don't come back until the end of the class (only two teachers stay). Then we pray and it is time to have lunch for an hour. I usually read or draw and the class gets very loud.



Even though it says 3rd I really am 2nd

At the end of the day we pray again and go home. I go get Owen. When I get to him they are usually praying

I have been doing really well at school. I like having different teachers for different subjects.

Here they rank students and it gets put on your report card. So I am number 2 in my class. Yesterday I told Senior Rene that we don't do that in Canada. He was really surprised! I think rating kids is a bad idea because even if you did well you could still come last and it would make you feel badly about what you accomplished instead of feeling proud for trying hard.

I am looking forward to being back to school in Canada with my friends in September.

puppy love

Yesterday we had an unexpected visitor...
IT WAS A PUPPY!!!!!!!!

The puppy is about the size of a slipper and probably weighs about 2 pounds. We aren't sure how old he is he just showed up yesterday afternoon. My dad was sitting out on the deck reading when the puppy just wandered up.

The puppy had to climb up a lot of stairs to get to our house. My mom got him a mixture of rice, lentils and chicken but just a couple of tablespoons. I got him a bowl of water.

We called him George because he lives in St. George. Other names we thought of were Jesus (Spanish pronunciation) Paque (Easter in French), Steve (because I call everything Steve because of Minecraft).

He hung out all afternoon, but then went downstairs to the bottom apartment where the neighbours were having a party. They fed him a lot of left overs, and we ended up with lots of turds all the way back up the stairs to our house.

He spent the night asleep on our deck. Mom made him a little bed out of a towel we weren't using. He was cuddled up in it last night.

This morning my mom gave him some more rice and I got him more water. My mom also took him downstairs to the grass to give him a Teatree oil shampoo for fleas- because he had fleas. He didn't like that.

My mom saw a neighbour who thought the puppy might be from across the street. He went to check. We haven't seen the little guy since. :-(

We were hoping to give him to Mr. Campbell whose dog died a few months ago. We are hoping he comes back so that we could claim him for Mr. Campbell.

Out and a boat

Last week I went with Owen to his friend Josh's boat. Josh lives on the boat with his little brother, mom and dad. Josh is friends Owen because they are in the same class at Beacon.

To get to his "house" you have to through Woburn which has a stinky, stinky mangrove. The day we went it smelled like egg salad threw up on cow paddies. It was STINKY!

When we arrived at the dingy launch Josh and his mom, Kate, were already on their way to pick us up. Once they picked us up we headed back toward their boat. To get to the boat you have to navigate through a maze of other boats. On the way we saw boats from pretty much everywhere. I also saw my friend Noa's dad heading to the launch.

Josh's Boat.....just kidding. But the same harbour

Getting on the boat means you need to climb up and over the side of the boat. It was a lot of fun to do. Their boat was blue and had two masts. There boat (house) is a lot more compact than I thought a boat could be. I had no idea you could fit some much stuff into 15 meters (about 50 feet). It has three bedrooms and two bathrooms, a kitchen, dining room and living room (these are all together). There is an other dining area on the deck.

Once aboard we went to the bow (front) and jumped off. Kate went over to Noa's boat (Noa is my friend from Switzerland who is in my class). Noa was doing his French (which is his first language) and he said he would catch us later.

So then Kate took us to Hog Island to play. We played on the swings and there was a Cabana to hang out in. We also played Bochi ball, it was really fun. About 45 minutes later Noa caught a dingy ride to Hog Island to join us. Then we went around the corner of where we were and went snorkeling. The snorkelling was really good, except it knee deep water for about 100 meters, so that was a bit tricky. But then it dropped off to really deep. Everyone had a really good time.

When we got to the boat we had sandwiches and chips. We watched a movie and I showed Josh how to do some things in Minecraft.

When my mom and dad came to pick me up we dropped Noa off on the way to the launch.

It was a lot of fun. We plan on having Noa and Josh over during the holidays- but after Auntie Ceilidh leaves.