2017

Breakfast was at the teacher's cabin again. I had some dry Froot Loops and water. After breakfast, we walked down to our service site. After touring the school we were split into groups and began working. At first I was working upstair putting gravel in a flower box. After we put the gravel in,...

Today is the last of the trip. We woke up and ate breakfast at the staff's cabin. It was cereal and protein bars. After which our driver picked up the group to head down to the school to do work. We went to work first shoveling gravel into a plant display followed by dirt. I used the time to...

Even though this is blog 6 I am writing this on our travel back home. On our last full day the teachers held breakfast outside of their cabin. Instead of the routine of afterwards heading to the docks, we headed to the main school on the island. For our service project, we were tasked with remodeling part of the school...

Slayton, NicholasFor breakfast, there was an air of solemnity because everyone knew that this was their last night on the island. After we were finished, we went to the nearby high school to help work on it. For the next few hours, I dug a ditch, cut roots, poured in concrete, and pulled up grass with my hands. It...

My last day in the bvi with marine biology was great. We started the day with breakfast and another ride from glen, who I will actually miss very much. Glen took us to Virgin Gorda's local elementary-high school for our service project. For our service project we worked to help beautify the schools landscaping. This entailed digging a trench,...

Today we woke up and had breakfest at the teachers cabin, after breakfest we went to the high school/ middle school on the island to help build and fix the school.  The projects that we did was paint, build a plant box, make a rock boundary around plants, make holes and put posters, and make a 6-8inch hole across...

This morning our teachers hosted us for breakfast. After breakfast we spent the morning volunteering at the local school. A group of us were responsible for digging a trench for a new water line, and later switched to working on a new landscape installation. The feeling that I received from helping at the school was uplifting and special. For...

Today began with breakfast at the teachers cabin where I had cereal. We then walked down to the local high school where we did service work for two hours. I worked on lifting and organizing stones to surround a garden. We had fun while doing it and helped the school with other landscaping projects. We then moved on to...

July 28 - Surprise! Morning was the same as every other day.  One difference however is that there were no dives today because of safety concerns with nitrogen dissolving in our bodies. Instead, we went to the local high school to complete some beautification projects. The school suffers from public vandalism, frequent trespassing, and dilapidating grounds. So in order to combate...