Hello parents,
Today was the third day of the second academic kayak rotation, and we had an art day in which we spent our morning working on our self portrait projects. After lunch, we left for community outreach where the 7th graders did a community cleanup, followed by tamarind cups, and the 8th graders went to Rock Sound to interview local residents about their public service announcement topics. Continue reading →

Caciques: Kearney and Ben

Today was (for all our purposes) a Sunday, providing some much needed rest.  K1 rejoined our community on campus, and everyone had a blast reuinting with one another and sharing various stories from Kayak and Academic rotations.  In the early morning, we all enjoyed a breakfast of scrambled eggs, grits, bacon and orange juice! It was Continue reading →

Caciques: Jake and Emma

We began the day as usual however certain members of the community forgot to wake up…boys dorm. After everyone was fully conscious we began our long morning exercise. Run track ran to Deal’s Point while swim track swam to Current Cut from Girls’ Dorm Beach. We then had a full 3 hour long research class and we worked on our methodology Continue reading →

We started out with run track and swim track as long morning exercise. After breakfast, everyone packed up to go to Princess Cays, the cruise ship port. We arrived at Princess Cays and explored the markets outside the gates, talking to some of our homestay families and learning about tourism around the area. After the markets, we were able to go Continue reading →

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We started off the morning with an exciting ZOOMBA led by Nick. The zoomba was an hour long dance session that got everyone’s blood pumping. We had a  morning of literature, math and history. After lunch we headed out for the afternoon to collect data for our  Human Ecology projects. For these projects students are broken into groups and create naturalist guides for the birds Continue reading →

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Today the Spring 2010 semester was given the opportunity to give back to the school for Legacy Day. We split into four groups and each group was assigned a different project. Two of the groups worked on landscaping and planting edible trees so that future semesters can enjoy these foods. The other groups Continue reading →

Eliza and Sean

Every Tuesday our community gathers in the boathouse. During the past couple of meetings we have sent the hour discussing pressing issues and schedules for the week. Today, however, we decided to spice it up and shorten it. We started the meeting with an opportunity for people to voice their opinions and concerns, but kept this part as brief as possible. To get people moving, Continue reading →

As I write this I can hear my brain sizzling because I just blew out my eardrum by freediving down 55 feet for morning exercise. Pretty intense huh? Half of my friends left me today to begin their 8-day kayak and Down Island trips. This is Continue reading →

Greetings Parents! We started off  this  wonderful Saturday morning with extended run/swim tracks.  After breakfast, we had our Saturday morning classes. For  today’s classes, we had “Bizarro” Research day.  In other words, we attended a research class DIFFERENT from the one that we are Continue reading →