Working Weekend

By Scott:

This weekend, our ACICS consultant was on Island to work with us on getting ready for the accrediting team visit in October. Between proctoring the Comprehensive Exams Friday night until 10:30 while Katie met with the consultant at the college and then a weekend of meetings, this was not the weekend in paradise we usually look forward to. We were in the office for a good part of Saturday and most of Sunday morning. We knew when we came down here it would be long hours and that has been the case. Katie actually has a much harder part than I do for ACICS getting the Records for the school in the right condition. I have to get the faculty files in order but that is nothing compared to the student records.

We still had some time late Saturday afternoon and evening to go out. We were invited by Kira, our business manager, to go with her and Clay (her boyfriend) out to Willie's farm on the north side to pick some fruit and look at the West Indian Whistling Ducks, an endangered species. We picked some star fruit and cayman plumbs and bought some mangos. From there we headed over to the Morritts, a resort in East End (next to the Reef where we stayed in June). We ordered drinks out on the deck, talked and listened to music as the sun set and the moon rose. The almost full moon glistening on the water and the lapping of the waves was really quite beautiful.

Sunday afternoon, after we finished with the consultant, we borrowed the van and went over to the condo to do an inventory of the furnished items and get our key. We are just two weeks from the move and really can't wait. I think both of us feel we will have to slow down and once we aren't living at the college that will be a little easier. After the inventory we headed to Cottage beach to try the snorkeling there. This beach had a lot of seaweed and it took a while to get out to clear water. The seaweed though had a number of really pretty looking species of fish swimming in it and couple of things we weren't sure of but were definitely alive. The beach wasn't as nice as Cayman Kai or even Beach Bay but we want to try all of them on the Island and can now mark this one off our list. An early dinner of Chili a la Scott (one of the few things I can cook well in our Dutch Baby) and a couple of episodes of Scrubs on the lap top followed.

We called it a very early night on Sunday, I went to sleep around 7:45 and Katie followed not long after. This will be a long week as I make a presentation to the Cayman Human Resources Professional Organization on Tuesday and on Thursday make my television debut on a morning show doing an interview to promote the college as the new Dean. Katie continues with registration and tonight becomes a teacher again. Our Freshman English Composition professor had to leave Island and so Katie is substituting for the rest of the quarter. We will let you know how that experience is for her.