Did I mention mosquitos love me?

For the next 3 weeks in St. Lucia, we'll be training in a rural village called Mon Repos while living with homestay families. I jumped right into the action by attending a wedding with my homestay mom, of which my favorite cultural moment was the Celine Dion marathon blasting over the speakers at the reception. Classic. The heat and humidity is also pretty intense here, so it looks like I'll be glued to my fan for the next 2 years. (example: Mike Brady)

Rainy Season in the Caribbean has also begun and life literally comes to a screeching halt when it starts to rain...and I mean dump. The sky opens up and empties every droplet of moisture. So the weather pretty much controls our daily life, but sometimes it's nice to just sit back and wait for it to let up. Except when you're at the beach, which then in our case, we just jumped in the ocean and swam anyway. Was it bad that there was lightning in the distance?

At the end of the week, we received our island placements and I found out I'm going to GRENADA! I'm even more excited because we have an exceptionally fun group and and a solid island director. We celebrated by hitting up the local bakery and eating way too many coconut turnovers...mmm!