Free Range Roosters

By Scott:

If there is one thing that constantly reminds me I am on an Island in the Caribbean it is the ever present free range roosters. East of George Town and away from the heavy traffic, they are everywhere usually trailed by a couple of hens and sometimes chicks. Every time we go biking we pass several on the road and unlike all the other animal species from whom you often see corpses in the road, you never see roosters or hens so they must have an ingrained sense to know not to be on the road. Several of them hang out in the area by the abandoned third building on our campus and they wake us each morning with their calls to the sun.

Katie and I did a short bike out to Bodden Town yesterday before work and an even shorter ride up to North Sound today. A few things are happening to really get a feel for change on the campus. We got a working vending machine last Friday and I have been making change for students out of petty cash and the response has been really positive, something about actually having working vending machines meant a lot to the students. It also means our canteen is starting to actually be a canteen rather than an empty room We are also redoing the campus wide meeting tomorrow night to get some student committee's going and talk about the changes. Each academic advising session I have I talk to the students and universally they want ICCI to succeed and just need the motivation of seeing things getting done to get involved themselves. While we are still at the very beginning of changes and there are some days we feel totally overwhelmed by the work on those occasions where we get the positive student response to the changes so far it really spurs us to keep working harder for more. Its why we are here and gives us that sense of purpose we need.