Location: Saba
1. Moorings make a lot of noise when you are trying to sleep peacefully through the night
2. Taking a tumble down 7?? stairs does not heal in two days
3. Cinnamon rolls smell so much better than eggs
4. I can hike up 800 stairs in flip-flops
5. The Saba Research Center is culturing two types of sea urchins to benefit the environment
6. Taxi rides in Saba feel like rollercoasters
7. How to make glass beads
8. Saba has a really good cafe with great desserts
9. Erik can pull off rhinestoned pink sunglasses
10. Saba is the majority of students’ favorite island so far
11. My brother’s camping dry bag works surprisingly well
12. Perry can also pull off rhinestoned pink sunglasses
13. The knot at the end of a jack line is a round turn two half hitches
14. It takes three people to take in on the sheet for the flying jib
15. Emma doesn’t like guacamole
If you didn’t already get it from my long list, the main characteristic of this trip is learning. Not sure on everyone else’s opinion, however, it is my favorite part of this experience. I seek out knowledge and new experiences, which happens to be why I am here.
In an attempt for all of the parents reading this to hear their kids’ voices if they haven’t recently, I have asked everyone something that they learned today as well.
Francesca: “It doesn’t matter how prepared you are, you still might not get registered for the classes you need”
Emma: “One-eyed dogs are very friendly”
Hayden: “I learned about sea urchin research in Saba because a lot of them died off in the 80s”
Noah: “I was tying the jack lines wrong the entire trip”
Erik: “A derivative is the slope”
Eva: “I learned how to make beads”
Eilidh: “Noah thought the UK was one country”
Aoife: “I do not like climbing stairs that much”
Alyssa: “How to untangle a mooring ball”
Chloe: “I learned that the cafe called Bizzy B has great baguettes”
Mohammed: “My backpack is water resistant”
Macklyn: “I am really good at glass making”
Lizzie: “I learned today that hitchhiking is a big part of Saba and not all flying things in the sky are airplanes; sometimes they’re satellites”