I must beg the pardon of those who read our blog for not
keeping it up to date but it seems that since returning from our vacation I’ve
found one thing after another to occupy my time.
With school resuming the first week of August, Becky has
been immersed in running the high school. She has had a need for an algebra teacher
for one period a day (first period) and although she had a couple of
candidates, neither of them worked out. So, for right now the Cabana Boy is
teaching algebra one every morning to 15 students, mostly 9th
graders with a few from the other grades. I’m so not a morning person. One
morning I got up, put the water on for coffee, put the beans in the grinder,
washed out the French press and when the water boiled I poured it in to the
press. Oops, no coffee, still in the grinder. No problem, pour coffee from the
grinder into the press. Oops, forgot to grind the beans. Throw out the mess and
start over. This teaching stuff puts a crimp in my Cabana Boy duties but I
soldier on and Becky is trying to find a permanent math teacher.
I’m still working on my guitar practice and at times it
even sounds like something you could recognize as music. Amazon continues to be
my friend and is the source for most of our reading, music, and movies.
Fishing has been poor the last few times I’ve been out. The
boat I fish with won the yearly President’s Cup and last weekend we represented
the Marshall Islands in the “All Micronesia” tournament. We did terrible and
after two full days we were lucky to have a Wahoo to take home for dinner. If fact,
we had to barrow a small skipjack tuna for the team picture. Very embarrassing.
We still get out to snorkel our reef and, during the past
month, we have been to two of the other islands on this atoll and done some snorkeling
there.
We continue to enjoy the people here in Majuro. Our house
has become a regular stopping place for the neighborhood children. We try to
keep fruit on hand for them and it is fun to talk with them about island life.
Mischief loves the
beach and water. When we take her out she doesn’t want to come back in and we
usually have to leave her and sit on the porch until she figures we won’t be
coming back out and then she will reluctantly return.
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| Can't keep Mischief out of the water |
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| Great Sunsets |
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| Becky reading while the Cabana Boy slaves |
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| Becky on the deck after being served by the Cabana boy |
