The week between classes

At the end of each term we have a week of no classes between the close of one quarter and the start of the next.  For the students it is a week off, for us it is a busy week of meetings, registrations, getting in grades and confirming arrival of textbooks.  This past week was our winter/spring off week and was no different than past ones as we held our quarterly Faculty meeting Tuesday night, New Student Orientation Thursday evening and the Internship/Placement and Seminar meetings on Friday night.  As the new term starts on Monday we are dealing with issues caused by the fire at the Miami airport fuel depot  almost two weeks ago.  Apparently since the fire plane cannot be fueled from the depot but must have fuel trucked to them which takes a lot more time.  As a result, several flights into Cayman for American Airlines have been cancelled and now our textbook order has not yet made it on island.  We will start classes on Monday for the first time in a while without our full complement of textbooks.  It looks like we will have around 200 students and for the fifteenth straight quarter since we got here see growth over the same term the year before.  Katie started work again Friday in a part time capacity and I am teaching three classes this term including our seminar in May in Atlanta.  We have several big events to look forward to in April starting with a visit from my brother Kevin and his family as well as getting out marriage blessed by the Catholic Church while they are on island.