the intimidator

i've been drafted...onto a flag football team. 

experiance: one powder puff game senior year of high school.
athletic ability: none, all sports growing up...fail...became a dancer instead. 
team name: lunch landies 
my official name on the team...call me "the intimidator" 

it's going to be epic. 

my future career.

so one of my professors this year made us take a personality/career aptitude type test.

i just finished it.

number one career that fits my personality and interests. dun duh duh dun...
"amusement and recreation attendant"

a carnie...? great. all that studying for nothing.

welcome to my future...

it's time.

hmmm...

 

we may want to consider switching it up a bit...

so what if i am OCD...

i saw this and almost died laughing...because it describes me. all too well.

so what if i am?...

maybe i swam with sharks yesterday...

yes. it's true. i did in fact swim with sharks and stingrays yesterday.

so...it's vacation time. after almost three months of hard work we are on vacation in this place...

friday morning we took the water taxi out to caye caulker and will be staying here for three days. tomorrow morning we're headed to san pedro for two more days until wednesday morning when we fly back to the states!

yesterday we went on an all day snorkling tour. we got to enjoy an entire day on a sail boat and took three stops along the way to get out an snorkel. the second stop: shark ray alley! yes...we swam with sharks and string rays...

i jumped in the the water with those things!
yeah.

i have to admit something...they were only nurse sharks. which means they are bottom feeders so they weren't tempted to eat us. but it was still pretty crazy. our guide caught some of the sharks and stingrays and let us pet them. it was one of the coolest things i've ever done! on our last stop we saw turtles, eels, an a bunch of crazy fish.

i'm in love with this place...

i may become a kidnapper

my big project this summer (aka team lead for...): succotz summer camp. 

we did a summer camp at the succotz primary (aka elementary) school last week and it was so. much. fun. the kids were adorable and really well behaved.  we had a morning and an afternoon session and the camp ran monday through friday.  we had probably about 80-90 kids total and we had so much fun with them. we did arts and crafts, reading activities, and games.  their favorites were definitely the arts and crafts and the water balloon games.

in conclusion, i may become a kidnapper because...these kids are just too cute.
 

above picture - top right: meet gliss. he was the most adorable little boy. ever. every day he would tell me all these random facts about spiders and when he left the last day he came up to me..."miss, one more fact about spiders?...they can carry 50 times their weight on their back. most people don't know that but they can!" yes gliss, i am kidnapping you...you'll like the states. i promise.

meet alex and aden. brothers, and too precious for words. they couldn't really speak english...but i tried. i do have pretty great hand gesture skills though, enough to get by...

last day of camp...i'm sure going to miss these little ones. so much.

i love him.

i missed being there for this action this morning...

i love my brother. he won this suit yesterday in some weird competition and wore it wake-boarding at the lake this morning to show his independence day pride. apparently it was a hit...lots of honking, waving, and cheering.

by the way i'm really upset about the fact that i'm missing the 4th of july in the u.s. of a. today...it's like my second favorite holiday (following only christmas of course). we are however attempting a bbq here...hot dogs and watermelon. quite possibility sketchy hot dogs but it's the best we can do...

speaking of sketchy meat...later this week i'll be trying this at benny's kitchen...

gibnut. a belizean delicacy. small rodent dish enjoyed by many a belizean...i have to at least say i tried it. wish me luck!