First off I want to apologize that I haven't gotten around to posting an entry in quite a while. I have actually been doing some school work and have been pretty busy all around doing other things. A couple weeks ago we had an interesting day when 3 professors from the UC system that work in EAP flew out here to determine if the Barbados program needs any tweaks or changes. What this means is that all the UC kids got together and basically got asked questions about going to school here for 3 or 4 straight hours. Kinda boring, but ended up being helpful to them. I guess they are looking into adding internship programs to boost the popularity of the program (Barbados gets lost in the shuffle with everyone wanting to go to Europe for study aborad, most people just overlook Barbados as a choice). Other than the visit my past month has been pretty relaxing and slow, but that wasn't the case for the week that just passed...
This past week a couple of my friends had one of their friends come down here from Canada for a week, so for the whole week we did a whole bunch of tourist activities and kept ourselves busy as to keep the visitor entertained. It also happened that Candadian thanksgiving happened this past Monday, and I was invited to join my Canadian friends for thanksgiving dinner. Although their Thanksgiving is relatively the same as ours, it's a month earlier, so I pretty much got a pre-Thanksgiving dinner a month early this year, and the food was quite good. I'm excited for American Thanksgiving though because our EAP office is catering a nice dinner for all of us, should be pretty awesome.
One afternoon we all took a trip to the Banks Beer brewery for a tour. The actual tour itself was incredibly short and not so exciting, it's a good thing we only paid 6 USD$ for the whole tour. After the short tour we were treated to tasting all of the drinks they make at the brewery; their signature beer, Guinness, a shandy, an energy drink, and "Tiger Malt" which is a molasses-ish drink. Overall it wasn't really worth it, we are just lucky that we were able to get a ride from a friend instead of having to take the bus.
Later in the week we took a trip to Bathsheba, which is where the majority of the island surfing happens, and has very unique landscapes. The cool thing about Bathsheba is that you can walk really far out on top of reefs and go swimming in natural little pools. We had some fun taking pictures then got lunch at a small little restaurant/bar before we bussed back home.
To cap off the busy week, on Saturday we went to a jungle area on the island and did some ziplining. The place we went to had a total of 8 lines and was tons of fun. From what I understand, the place is relatively new and not too well know on the island yet. It was a promotion weekend for students so we only had to pay 25 USD$ instead of 60. It was also my friend Brittany's birthday that day, so we went out to a nice dinner at a small little restaurant with live music in Bridgetown's harbor.
That pretty much sums up til now, I'll try to get my next post up quicker than it took this one.
