Today is my last day of school for Week 3, and I'm sure at this point it doesn't come as a surprise to anybody that there is still one class of mine that hasn't started. The rumor is that it will start next week, but I'm not going to hold my breath on that. But there is a semi-legitimate reason for the lack of classes, and it's that my professor for two classes ended up getting very sick and won't be able to teach this semester. This threw the faculty of Social Sciences into a frantic search for professors to replace her. They found what seems to be a grad student to teach my Soc of Development class, so that started this week, but there is still no replacement for my Soc of Tourism. Classes have been going fine, but being the foreigners makes for some interesting situations. In my Pop Culture class, the professor always looks back and trys to get the 4 white kids in the back of the class to comment on every time he mentions America, and when he talks to us the whole class stares at us like we have some amazing responses to everything. There was one case where the professor asked the class to pull out our cell phones, and when 2 of us didn't have one he freaked out because he was amazed that someone from California wouldn't have a phone with us, going as far to ask how many cell phones we have back home, haha. My other professor things I am from England, and until I talk to her face-to-face I'll let her think that.
Last week I recieved a letter at the office that my package (my camera) had finally arrived, but that I had to go all the way into town to get it because it was sent via USPS instead of FedEx. It was a damper, but I had to go grocery shopping too so I decided to make a day out of it. The first stop was the post office which was the most ridiculous thing in the world. I gave them my slip, they brought out my package, had me open it, then told me I had to pay tons of taxes on it. I guess the way that they tax packages here is based upon the declared value of the package. The declared value of the camera was $400 which makes total sense to me, but the people at the post office thought I was an idiot to have that as the value. I then had to pay 3 different kind of taxes just to be able to get my package back. I ended up paying somewhere around $125 just to be able to get my stuff, luckily they took the $400 to be in BBD so I paid about $60 less than I should have.
The next day I was excited to be able to use my camera once again, but was a little hesitant of taking it in the water for obvious reasons. Once at the beach I took some generic pictures of the beach like usual, then decided that if Olympus fixed my camera it would be safe to take in the water. Luckily everything worked perfectly fine and I was able to take pictures throughout my swim. Later that night I went back down to the beach with my camera, and before I even took it in the water, the camera it started beeping at me. I was able to look at pictures I had taken, but not take any new ones. As frustrated as I was, I still had some faith that it would be able to fix itself, so I left it out all night. I woke the next morning to find it looking like it was working and went to the Mount Gay rum factory for a tour. In a not-so-surprising set of circumstances, my camera freaked out again and zoomed in, even whenever I didn't press the zoom button. After fighting with the zoom feature and zooming back out, I was able to get some pictures, but by the end of the day it was stuck in constant zoom in, with a few select buttons not working at all (like menu or delete), and it is still like that right now. So at this point I have one camera that auto-focuses right when you turn it on and can only take one picture each time it's turned on, and I have a second camera that zooms all the way in when it is turned on and can't eve take a picture anymore. It's incredibly frustrating, but I guess I'll deal with it.
But back to the Mount Gay tour... It was raining when we arrived so we took shelter in the gift shop, which was just a big room full of all different shapes and sizes of rum, with ridiculously low prices for such a large amount. The tour started with a history of the factory and a general overview of the 4 types of rum they make, it led through different rooms where they taught us about the distilling process, where everything comes from, and a video on the whole process. After the tour we were given samples of 4 of their liquors and that was the end. It was a very short tour, but somewhat entertaining. After the tour we headed across the street to a restaurant called Tim's on de Hiway, which had some really good Fish & Macaroni Pie, which we ate on the beach cheking out the clouds over the setting sun, then walked about 3 miles home to end the day.
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