What is Love?

Last night for my b-day dinner Blake decided she would go way out of her comfort zone. Believe it or not she prepared and cooked fresh fish, Mahi Mahi, which was caught in the local bay. 

The picture above shows what a wonderful job she did. I wanted to get Blake in the picture but at that moment she was spraying Lysol into the back of two fans throughout the apartment in an attempt to dampen the smell. This was probably the toughest thing she has ever done. She has an aversion to seafood like no one else.  She told me I better document this event because 1.) nobody will believe it and 2.) it will never happen again!

She is amazing. I love her.  

Church Service Project

My parents church in AZ got the children involved in collecting and boxing basic school supplies to ship to the island to donate to a local school. The school supplies on the island are of poor quality are very limited and expensive. Many Dominican children will miss days or weeks of school because they do not have a pencil and cannot attend w/o one. The kids and teachers in this small farming village of "t-baud" (t-bow) were so excited to receive the supplies and letters that the children from AZ wrote for them. I was talking to all the kids about what they want to be when they grow up and my favorite response came from this beautiful tall and thin girl who shouted, "The Chief of Police!" I tried to instill some hope in them by encouraging them to work hard in school to accomplish their dreams even though their reality will make this extremely difficult for them. Dominica is unfortunately a land of very limited opportunity.

a taste of my skills

So, I feel like this link to my last performance needs a little bit of an explaination. As most of you know I am (was) a classically trained dancer and wasn't too bad at it. Here on the island I have missed dancing so much so I finally went stir crazy and joined whatever dance groups I could. One was a tribal belly dancing class I took for just a month and then performed and then the universities Black Student Association was kind enough to let me work it out a little with them. The university had it's first culture carnival talent show so I got a chance to perform in front of a couple hundred medical students and faculty. Although this is not my typical performance style I came out of it learning the basics of belly dancing(which is a lot harder than it looks!) and a newer hip hop move I didn't know called the "dutty wine." It was a lot of fun performing again eventhough my belly is not as fabulous as it once was. Enjoy:)