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Background: Once the center of the Caribbean slave trade, the island of Curacao was hard hit by the abolition of slavery in 1863. Its prosperity (and that of neighboring Aruba) was restored in the early 20th century with the construction of oil refineries to service the newly discovered Venezuelan oil fields. The island of Saint Martin is shared with France; its southern portion is named Sint Maarten and is part of the Netherlands Antilles; its northern portion is called Saint-Martin and is part of Guadeloupe (France).

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By Greenwood
November 30th 2008

Finally. Day work.

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Business Card
This is the one I had printed. I didn't like the old design.

On thursday morning I woke up and decided it was time to get up. I climb bed out of bed and stumbled into the common area and lied down there to have a nap. Steph's phone started to ring and whoever it was just kept calling and calling knowing someone would eventually pick it up. Finally I got fed up, woke her up and gave her her phone. Five minutes later I had day work. Apparently they needed a couple people on really short notice and knew that there would be plenty of people at the crew house ready to go. [View Full Entry]

By Greenwood
November 19th 2008

Still Alive.

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My business Card
Advice?

Yeah mom, I'm still alive. There really isn't much to post about. The bridge into the lagoon has been down for repairs since I got here and it's not supposed to be up for another week. As a result, there are no boats in the lagoon and subsequently no work for anyone. It's supposed to pick up pretty soon since the boat show is coming up. One issue we face as well is that you can't dockwalk. For those who don't know what that is, it's where you just walk around all the marinas during the day and talk to people [View Full Entry]

By Greenwood
November 12th 2008

Back by popular demand

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Alright, So I guess it is time for another post. Pictures forthcoming. We'll start with the rest of the course. Most of the course has been a lot of common sense stuff they have to teach you anyways however we did get to do some fun things like practising with the life rafts and immersion suits. To do this, we went to a pool and had to jump in and tread water for 15 minutes. We weren't allowed to just wear a bathing suit and had to wear normal clothes since that would probably be the case in a real emergency. [View Full Entry]

By Greenwood
November 12th 2008

It's picture time again.

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St Maartin.
This is a panorama of the lagoon and where we live. It is actually a combination of three shots I stitched together.

And now, More pictures. [View Full Entry]

By MargieAnn
November 11th 2008

Thank you Veterans! St Maarten

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Happy Harry!

Thank you to all our veterans today~ Michael John, Uncle Don and anyone else that has served us. We are so grateful to you! Yesterday we did enjoy our happy hour at sunset on the top deck. The pictures are beautiful and I will share with you soon. After dinner we went to bed; we want to be rested for St Maarten. We had breakfast on the back deck and then went back to our room to pack our backpack for the day. We walked off the ship and wandered around the pier for awhile. We are to meet Happy Harry [View Full Entry]

By Greenwood
November 7th 2008

Scuttlebut

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I'm pretty busy right now so I can't do a full post however I'll put up some updates. I shall call it "And now, some questions from Mom" "First off what do you think of the course, are you learning new stuff or is it same old same old?" The first aid was kind of useless. I thought it would be oriented somehow to a marine environment however it was just another first aid course which by now is quite routine and identical to the last. The Emergency survival was pretty good. It was mostly common sense however it did include [View Full Entry]

By Greenwood
November 4th 2008

Photo's you say

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Leaving on a jet plane
For Mom and Dad. Uncle Lorne was kind enough to take it in your absence.

Alright well I guess you wanted some photos. How about a video too. This is Day 1. [View Full Entry]

By Greenwood
November 2nd 2008

Leaving on the jet plane.

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Where to start. How about the flight. It was cramped. I have never been that cramped on a plane before. My shoulders were too big for the seat and therefore it was pressed up against the fuselage. I can't really comment much more on the flight since it was uneventful and you couldn't really see anything because of the clouds. Dad, I couldn't get my own seat because the plane was pretty much full. Now the landing. It's different. And by that I mean its odd to fly by a strip of hotels level with the second floor. The crew house [View Full Entry]

By Travelling Artist
September 3rd 2008

A Quiet Day in St. Maarten . . .

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This week’s teen tour was set for today in St. Maarten - The America’s Cup Regatta. I did this tour back in my first contract on the Legend and loved it. You’re put on racing boats, given a task to help sail the boat and then you race against others. So much fun. So I was very excited to go again this week. I got up, got ready, went outside. The sun was shining. Perfect day for sailing. So I went and met my teens and we headed out to the pier. Except now it was overcast. We met the rest [View Full Entry]

By Nick and Becky Torretta
June 30th 2008

Entry 6: Last Night at St Martin

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The Dynamic Duo
Westin Beach

Well here it is -- the last night of heaven here at St. Martin. Apologies about the lack of blog the last 2 nights, the internet at the Oyster Bay Beach Resort randomly quit working and we have been unable to access any websites. Nonetheless, we've been fortunate to be able to spend our last night at the Westin (which is actually on the same beach as the OBBR(we can see it from our hotel). The Westin is amazing -- it's by far the nicest hotel on St. Martin, and is truly paradise. We've taken pictures and will be posting them [View Full Entry]

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