Life in the Peace Corps: It's another hot one in St. Lucia

This month officially marks a year since I've been in Grenada...can you believe it? Halfway through our service, all the Eastern Caribbean Peace Corps volunteers fly back to St. Lucia for a Mid-Service Training where we reconnect with the other islands and have refresher training courses. Hearing about the projects of other volunteers really put my work into perspective and encouraged me that I'm on the right track, and also gave me new ideas to implement this next year. Something that worries me though...I remember the previous group of volunteers telling us how hard their first year was, but then how quickly the second year goes. Well, my first year was great and flew by, so what does that mean for my second?

And of course it was so much fun to hang out with old friends! Most of us stayed longer in St. Lucia to have a vacation and see our old homestay families, so Team Grenada took over Lilly's house in Anse la Raye for the next week...always a guaranteed good time! My highlight was climbing Petit Piton. Last year we hiked the slightly bigger Gros Piton, but Petit Piton is literally 2500 feet straight up, takes twice as long (4 hours), and you have to climb ropes at the top! Afterward Lilly and I kept looking back in disbelief, saying "I'm so proud of us."

Oh yeah...and I went to the doctor and I've had tonsillitis for the past 4 days.

volunteers reunited...