Tobago

This week I went to Tobago…as part of my job! I went to a Peer Counseling Trainers Workshop with 2 of my co-workers from Hope-Pals, an HIV/AIDS advocacy group I work with, and we got to stay at an all-inclusive resort (thank you Red Cross International)! The training sessions were really interesting and it was even more of an experience for me to hear so many stories firsthand from people who are HIV+. It made the material much more real. By the end of the week, I scored high enough marks on my exams and teach-back session that I received my Trainer’s Certificate!

Our last and only free day on the island consisted of me taking my 62-year old friend Keith and our taxi driver on a wild goose chase to try to find the sites where "Swiss Family Robinson" was filmed. No one I spoke with seemed to know what movie I was talking about, but oddly enough, the random taxi driver had grown up on the land where the film crew had camped for part of the time! Obviously a lot had changed since 1960, but he remembered most of the locations and I was able to narrate for him what happened in each spot. It was quite humorous, and cool to know I was walking where Fritz, Ernst, and Francis had roamed.