Blogs from Saint Kitts & Nevis, Central America Caribbean - page 4

We spent a week in paradise, the island of Nevis. The weather was great every day with blue skies and temperatures reaching 85 degrees. Every day we were there we had the option of several activities which almost always included something with the beach. On Tuesday several of us went horseback riding along the beach and throughout some of the neighborhoods on the Southwest side of the island. There were million dollar homes and countless families living in poverty. Some were living in tractor trailer carriages with only a few holes cut open for windows. While others were living in houses that most people would consider not even big enough to store their cars. It was very eye opening to see the diversity within two blocks of each other. The people of the island were very ... read more

Thursday, January 17, 2008 The things kids tell you during reading assessments.... Yesterday I was finally able to begin reading assessments with all of the 1st and 2nd grade students at the primary school where I work part time. I’m really curious to see how the results come out overall, and also excited to start the reading program with those who need the most help. I had a couple of interesting conversations in the process though…. Some of the kids came in pretty nervous or really quiet(we pulled them out of class one at a time), so I would talk to them a little before we started, asking questions like “Do you like to read?” “Do you have a favorite book that you’ve borrowed from the library?” (Matt and I set up a library at the ... read more

It has been a busy few days on Nevis since we arrived on Sunday evening. The Island was first settled by Indians way back around 100BC, some of whom were thought to be cannibals, or so I have been told! The name comes from a visit by the explorer Christopher Columbus; the day he arrived he must have been suffering slightly from the heat, because despite the sweltering temperatures and humidity (I have spent most of the last 3 days dripping with sweat), he thought the top of the mountain was covered in snow and so named the island ‘Nieve’ after the Spanish word for snow. The time on shore began with a visit to the local marine laboratory to look at some of the weird and wonderful creatures found in the waters surrounding the island. ... read more

Leatherback pictures! Central America Caribbean » St Kitts and Nevis » St Kitts By Matt and LaurenApril 19th 2007Matt and Lauren Brock Hello everyone! I uploaded these pictures about a week ago after a long and wonderful night of beach monitoring. We've been wanting to put some text with it but don't seem to be getting around to it very quickly and I'm excited to post the pictures... so I'm going to go ahead and do it without the text! There's actually quite a bit of information in the captions, and soon we can post a couple more, along with an actual blog entry! ** If ... read more

And then there were six! After a very early-to-bed Friday evening the six guys that were left all met for breakfast before 9am. We knew we had a taxi booked for 11.45am so after breakfast we headed to the swimming pool to catch the last couple of hours of sunshine of our wonderful holiday. There was a sense of dejection among the group as we all knew our time on this wonderful island in the Caribbean was coming to an end. Our preferred taxi driver, Mr Sackville Grey, dually arrived at the 11.45am booked time, we said our final fairwells to the staff and other people we had met within our hotel and headed off on the 10-minute taxi ride to St Kitts International Airport. We were first in the queue but there was a ... read more