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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~Mark Twain With the swell gently lapping the hull of the ship, a sky full of stars overhead, and fresh fish in my belly, I could almost forget that I was at work. In the middle of June this year, I had the amazing opportunity to be part of an instructor team on a keel-boat sailing course in the Bahamas, and I loved every minute of it. I've mentioned that I'm going to spend some bits of my posts highlighting the organizations and individuals for whom I've worked, and that is precisely ... read more
day37, 38, 39 and 40
Published: July 1st 2012Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Nassau » Paradise Islandday 37-Nat usually sleeps with the lamp on and the night she doesn't, loz sleep talks in the middle of the night and tells her that theres someone in the room. Nat freaks out and cries. Went to the supermarket after work for big shop. Loz and nat dress up as retards for chat roulette. Day 38- Nat slept in fear with the light on. Hurricane debby was in florida and heading to Nassau. Loz and Amelia go to cable beach to be surrounded by all the newly weds from the sandals resort. Day39- Finally weekend. Woke up in the night by thunder. Went to the zoo. fed the parrots and saw the amazing flamingo march. went to fish fry. Waited 45 minutes for our food, loz kicked off and sent her food back. Went to ... read more
day 33 34, 35 and 36
Published: June 24th 2012Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Nassau » Paradise IslandDay 33- Massive floods everywhere. Amelia finds a sean kingston lookalike on the side of the road asleep and dribbling and decides to take pictures of him. Loz did the washing and ironing (something you dont see very often) and went for a run along the beach. Nat cooked dinner. Day 34-happy fridayyy! On the way to work and Loz not looking where shes goin walks into a metal signpost and goes into work with a bump on her forehead. loz went to bed at 8pm that night and amelia and nat stayed up watching immature videos. Day 35-Nat got woke up by loz singin and cracking open monkey nuts. Lozzas mummas birthday, so skype date it was. Went to the mall, shopped til we dropped. Saw a hamster giving birth. Went to watch what to ... read more
day 27- Spent the day at cable beach topping the tan up. Went to Senor frogs later for a meal. Nat screamed when a cocktail joined us for the meal. Ended up gettin on the yards, got a taxi home later. The taxi man was playing baby making music so we told him to put some rap and raggae music on and we soon turned the taxi into a party bus. Nat was apalled by the swearing in every song. Arrived home and woke up the majority of cable beach. Loz mooned the landlord. Day 28-Beach again, came back and found a lizard on the wall. loz attempted chasing it but failed and one of these mornings we will wake up with it on one of our faces. Went to downtown that night to sharkeys and ... read more
day 30-went to the beach after work. loz and nat went for a romantic italian meal in the sunshine. they even shared their two main meals. candles..the lot! Day 31-Came out of work and got drenched.Loz and nat craving seafood 24/7 had conch, lobster, shrimps and mussels. The mango delivery man (landlord) arrived and we now have a total of 100 mangos. Day 32- nat nearly wet herself after receiving an email from a modelling agency on facebook being asked to model for them. Were not sure which photo they had viewed on facebook of her, but either the one with her head down the toilet being sick or the one lay unconcious on the bathroom floor...there bound to want to give this chick a contract. Made a new mate in mcdonalds...the 2 year old version ... read more
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Day 25-the 2nd time that the landowner has knocked on to give us mangos. beginning to think hes up to something. Amelia (who hates kids) saw a kid who she considered as cute and actually smiled at him!!! Loz had got food poisoning and was too weak to pick up a bottle of water. Went to the beach later and loz collapsed on the side road and the diva couldnt move for an hour. Day 26- A pigeon had a soft spot for nat, followed her downtown and wouldnt leave her alone. Went to the ice cream parlour after work and Nat came out with blue teeth and lips. The landowner came round twice in the evening and brought us mangos. Wondering if lozzas food poisoning is from the landowners generous fruit giving. Loz and amelia ... read more
Day 20-went to work, Loz came out of work unexpectedly to be greeted by the major peri Gomez and was interviewed for Bahamian news. Came home from work and got caught in the heaviest rain, thunder and lightening. The road turned into a river. That evening popped the news on to watch loz searching for her 100cc normal saline on tv. Day 21-Went downtown nassau to get drinks in the supermarket, Nat found a shark postcard, knowing loz has a serious phobia of sharks she decides to chase her round the supermarket with the postcard and have her screaming. Went to see Nadine at the craft cottage and drank coconut water. Amelia drank watermelon juice and was told that it was a natural viagra. Later Nat got robbed outside senor frogs and cried. Went into senor ... read more
day 17- Tried conch for the first time, as all the bahamians havn't shut up about it. Not much to comment on it. Excessive sweating at work today. dived in the sea when we finished. Nat came home and slept like a baby. Amelia and loz watched Miss America and slagged all the girls off for their fake smiles and tacky outfits. day 18-Woke up a million times in the night being bitten alive. Went to work, got a lift off tyrone on the way home. Tyrone being the 'relationship expert' gave us the big talk....think we all had our disagreements with him about men. Loz went for a run. All feeling pretty homesick that evening, sarcy pants Loz tries to cheer to girls up with watching the most exciting man on the planet sir james ... read more
day 14- loz cleaned the whole of the apartment. The apartment itself was pretty much a beach with the amount of sand we had brought in. Later ditzy nat realised she had lost all her documents from the day before and ended up finding them later in the supermarket. Nat and loz went to Dominoes, ate a million lava cakes and were almost sick in the process. Mart went back home to manchesda. Day 15- Went to Sandyport, heaviest rain along with thunder and lightening. Roads were flooded. Nat and loz thought it would be funny to push each other in the flooded road. Arrived back at the apartment like drowned rats. Scrubbed up good and proper and got ready to go downtown. Before we headed out, had a competition..who could do the most embarassing dance ... read more
day 11, 12 and 13
Published: June 1st 2012Central America Caribbean » Bahamas » Nassau » Paradise Islandday 11-For legal reasons, we can't include info about our jobs on this blog. Loz has kept a diary which can only be described as outrageous and is bound to shock people back home. With our bikinis on underneath our clothes, we head straight to the beach on paradise island after work. watched the final of americas bets dance crew. That night the island had a powercut, no water and no electricity. we were not impressed. day 12-Couldnt see much whilst getting ready for work. Nat fell over everything. Headed to Atlantis resort on paradise island in the evening with nadine. We were definitely in the right place to find a hot wadded hunk. Went to the aquarium and saw the biggest stingray which resembled a space ship. Able to touch the starfish, loz put her ... read more
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