"My Mummy Says I Smell Like White People"

What better day to start the day then a visit from Takio. We schedules his lessons in the morning this week, but that could end up being problematic. He stuck around for the following lesson and then followed us home. He is an adorable kid, but he likes to wreak havoc! He says the randomness things too. Today he told us that his mother told him he smells like white people when he comes home. I guess I never really thought about it, but maybe we do smell different! A lot of the kids here designate us as 'white girls' or 'white people' if they don't know our names. Now that they are getting more used to us that is changing. Walking down the street or on the beach we can often here kids yelling 'Anaandjess!;' like we are one and the same. Takio asked me why I was fat today, which didn't really boost my self-esteem, but I knew he was just trying to make me cry (he told me so). He also said I was turning black. I guess I am getting pretty tan...

Before I got to Eleuthera, I couldn't imagine why people didn't know how to swim. So many of the kids are petrified of the thought of sharks, jellyfish, or something else getting them in the water. Most of the adults here don't know how to swim either. So many of them jump go cliff jumping and do flips in the water, but then, they bounce off the ocean bottom until they can reach onto something. Foreigners that want a piece of paradise usually purchase homes that are on the coastline and make their driveways private property. The coastline is completely public property though; which doesn't really make much sense. Anyways, Bohemian communities become completely isolated from the coast. It's so frustrating to me... How can people move to a foreign country and fence themselves off from the community that it really belongs to? Being interested in public health, I really wonder what really happens when someone needs to see the doctor. I know there are nurses on call that can open the clinic if there is a dire need, but if someone gets seriously hurt, they have to take a boat or fly to Nassau. I'm going to investigate this... It seems as though people here are relatively healthy though, so I'm not sure if there is a need. There are still a lot of things I need to figure out.

I ate a 'curve'/'curb' today. I'm not sure how you spell it, but it was definitely interesting... They cling to the rocks and look like fossils almost, but the kids love to eat them. A few of our swimmers took them off the rock and gutted them for us... it was pretty chewy and fishy tasting. I guess it tastes like conch?

I uploaded some pictures, but there are plenty more! I will try to upload more when I have a chance.

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Someone let me know if this link works!

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