Graduation Day ( Grade 6)/ Canouan w/ Girls Home ( Pic update for my non facebookers)

The grade 6 boys

The gyals playing Go Fish

Graduation Day!

Grade 6 Graduation

My wonderful Principal and IPP

Canouan w/ the Girls Home

The gyals

Natalie Patrice, loves her!

Grade 6 Prom, fresssh to death!

They all looked so nice

Ladies night @ Girls Home

Didn't quite get to the Taboo game, next time Sisters

NatP doing it up Trini style ( Bakes n Shark)

..." There is a certain balance of letting nature provide what it may"...

A dear friend of mine wrote this in response to a post earlier this month concerning Apathy. I felt moved to share this with other volunteers that are serving and may need a gentle reminder from time to time or even for applicants that may read this prior to starting your Peace Corps experience. :


"Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there and I am prepared to expect wonders."...since you are reading Thoreau, I think.

You have already identified the seed. The dilemma I see is that you are not familiar w/ the species of plants you are harvesting. Some, my dear, will sprout like bean vines at the first sign of spring waters. Others will require diligent tending to the soil, as well as experience fighting off the parasitic setbacks that are native to the region. The wise gardener recognizes that there is a certain measure of tending, and then there is a certain balance of letting nature provide what it may, and that a whole crop may not be harvested, despite the toils of labor and love.

Finally, there are seeds that will not reach their full potential in life until the cultivator is lonnng and gone. The roots of the aspens, the wisdom of the old oak, the reverence of the redwoods, all evidence of that reality. The bonsai takes careful pruning before it is considered a work of art. But the first cut decides the next cut, and the next cut, and the next. Be the first cut where you can. Be the center ring of a 9000 Year old Norway spruce where you can.

You are blocking your vision with anticipation of perfectly timed corn rows, when in fact you have the collaboration of seeds that haven't shown you their colors. The fruits might not ripen until 20 years down the road, when one recollection of one spirit that said one thing just right, pruned just the right limb, provides the life-giving profundity that you assumed to be lost in the limited ideas of what you envisioned as "getting thru" or not. It might not be the grammar limb, or the math limb, or anything taught in books limb..those might likely be of no use...compared to the one day that some piece of you became some memory for them. And that they needed nothing more".  
 - MeadowO.

                                                         

                                                  ~Some people are just good for the soul~

Wish List Update

A little goes a VERY LONG way!  Check out what a small donation can provide for students at my school...

Cane End Government School

ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES

Ave Stephen-Weeks, Principal; 175 students

Jessica Greathouse, U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer

Background from Jessica Greathouse: "This school, in the beautiful, agricultural Mesopotamia Valley, would like to enhance literacy among the students by exposing them to a variety of literature. A significant number of students are below grade level.

Thank you very much for considering a donation to Hands Across the Sea, Inc. in support of Jessica’s school project. This link explains the donation process. http://handsacrossthesea.net/HandsWishLists.htm , and here’s how you can ensure that the funds sent will go to Cane End:

1.You can be sure that the funds will go to Cane End because there is one person who speaks with all the volunteers, has access to PayPal and who tracks all funds, and that is me. There are no other people involved. Every single donation that Hands Across the Sea receives goes across my desk and I assign them all. If I don’t know who the funds should go to I always ask the donor by sending them an email afterwards asking them.

2.Towards the end of the PayPal process, there is a comments/message field. You won’t see it in the first step. Please write that you would like the donation to go to Cane End or Jessica Greathouse’s school.

If a donor forgets to write a message, I send the PayPal donor an email asking them what school they’d like to donate to.

3.If you want to make double sure, you can write me an email telling me that you just made a Paypal donation to Jessica’s school. My email is Harriet@handsacrossthesea.net.

4.Finally, if you feel more comfortable writing a check, you can write the name of the school in the memo line. Checks should be made out to:

Hands Across the Sea, Inc.

411 Walnut Street

PMB 4218

Green Cove Springs, FL 32043


http://handsacrossthesea.net/HandsWishLists.htm