Thursday, October 25, 2007

A/C and Watching Chadin

Sunday afternoon a handyman suggested by our landlord came out to the house to take a look at the air handler and see if it could be fixed without having to be replaced. His instinct was that it could but that it would take a while. He told us he would be back Monday evening.

Monday morning we watched Chadin our business manager Kira's six year old son. His school is off this week and Kira needed someone to watch him in the morning for two days. I had a presentation at John Gray HS so while I went to gave my talk to the HS students, Katie took Chadin to Smith's cove a beach on the southwest side of the Island. After my presentation I picked them up and we had lunch before heading to the office at noon. That evening Katie stayed home with the AC man who worked on the unit for almost four hours. When he left, the AC was running good and three days later it is still running well so we will see if his work saved our landlord the expensive replacement.

Tuesday morning was my turn to watch Chadin while Katie went to an appointment. We went back to Smith's cove and this time I got to go snorkeling with him. Even though he is six, he is not afraid as a swimmer, but we kept a blown up inner tube with us and he would hold on to it as we moved out into deeper waters. We also did some exploring as he wanted to show me tide pools that he and Katie had found the day before. Katie picked us up at around 11 and we went home for lunch and then on to the office. His Grandfather arrived yesterday so we just had two days of kid watching. It was a neat small practice run for the two of us.

I made another presentation to some more students yesterday and Katie is getting ready for her week of teaching my Caribcert class next Monday and Tuesday. We get the official report on Friday from ACICS but are already hard at work addressing the expected citations. Things really haven't slowed down since the team left and we guess they wont until we actually get the notice our accreditation has been renewed.