The real world is interrupting this island's desire to be a quiet sleepy tourist and banking destination. Two gangs from up in West Bay the far west and northern part of the island have broken into open warfare and there have been four murders in the last six days in tit for tat shootings. That is almost as many as these islands will get in a year. The Governor called a special meeting of the top government officials and there has been open discussion of a curfew for the West Bay area and with the spread of shootings to the capital yesterday the Premier made an address to the nation yesterday about it. So far at least everything has been far away from our neighborhood and from the college but we are keeping an eye on things. Everyone seems conscious though of the fact that this is one short step from us being like Jamaica and not being the "safe" tourist destination in the Caribbean so we expect heavy police presence and crackdowns over the next few weeks.
Classes started yesterday but unfortunately we had a hiccup with the new building as CUC wont get electricity to it until Wednesday. That meant last night we had to move classes around and use the canteen, something we will have to do again tonight while we wait for the new classrooms to open. Yesterday was number 41 and we did a baby swap sitter and had a nice birthday dinner for me Sunday night at Yoshi's to celebrate.
