Um, My Mom is Making Me Do This...

2-1-09 No, really, she is. Sorry about the hiatus between posts, but nothing really has happened in the last two weeks that I felt worthy of mention on this here blog. Well, nothing of great interest has happened in the last two weeks--maybe minor interest, but nothing spectacularly great. However, my mom has bugged me that I haven't posted anything in "three weeks!" and so I'm trying to come up with something to proffer. (And, Mom, it's actually only been two weeks. This week is week three, and I'm posting this.)

I have decided to take the Advanced Dive course. Today (Sunday) we were supposed to go diving on a deep dive (past 100 feet), with the added plus of the dive being from a boat. (Both are types of dives that we have to take as part of the course.) We woke up this morning with the skies gray and heavy-bellied with clouds that were wind-whipped and pouring rain. We quickly decided that diving was a no-go for today, for the rain makes the water very cold (relatively, of course), and traveling anywhere by boat in such wind would have been miserable, difficult, and probably foolhardy. So we didn't go--and, even though I did want to go diving today, I am glad that I did not. It has rained on and off all day, and the winds haven't died down. For what's supposedly the beginning of the dry season (although I don't know the exact date of its start), it sure has rained a lot today! My shower tonight will be freezing cold, but it will be fresh water, and that will be very nice.

This week is midterms, and I'm in the middle of writing tests and filling out paperwork. I think I have almost completely exhausted my supply of books to read in my "spare" time--I've read a couple of the books more than once, though.

Maybe I should just post some more pictures. Yeah, that seems like a good idea. To iPhoto I go, so that I may choose which pictures you see below! More later.



The books that I teach out of (as well as my poor waterbottle that has been so abused by accident)



Emily showing off one of our new sponges (we had used our first sponge until it practically fell apart.)



Oronia and I at the school picnic (O-row-nee-ah)



Jeo, with one of his normal grins