Posts Tagged ‘St. Eustatius’
Trial Postage…
I am such a real person with a real domain name website…. News: I am house-sitting right now for the guy who does computer tech at the office, which means I am staying in the highest house on the Quill above town with a BEAUTIFUL view of all the lights and the northern hills and […]
Certified Open Water diver JVZ….
That’s right, you heard me, I have completed! my open water certification course and am now a registered DIVER! Basically how it goes is I read this horrifically cheesy and boring book about equiptment and rules and depths and blah blah blah but I actually read it all and paid attention don’t worry because….. then […]
US History you have never heard
Last week was Statia Days… a celebration of the island and, ironically, of their important part in the American Revolution. It was strange to be in a totally non-American country but still I basically felt like I was at some go America patriotic celebration. So here’s the history, more or less. During the early American […]
Thoughts on Statia
I have now been here on Statia for 3 weeks… one strange hurricane week but now 2 weeks of settling into a routine and getting to now the area — the plants and animals and the culture, and what I’m going to be doing here. We’ll start with my routine: I am working at the […]
Hurricane!
Directly after my last cocky entry about how the hurricane didn’t seem that bad I left with the other new volunteers to head back to the garden. By the time we got back, feeling very good about ourselves for having changed a flat tire and gotten unlost several times, we were informed to pack everything […]
Statia!
For those of you who don’t know, I arrived two days ago on St. Eustatius, a tiny island in the Netharlands Antilles in the Carribbean. Just east of Puerto Rico and the US Virgen Islands. I am an intern here with the National Park system, working mostly in the botanical garden. Yesterday I spent most […]
Woo hoo I have a future!
I have officially been accepted, and confirmed… AND even bought AIRLINE tickets (!!!!) for a job this fall! Well, I use the term job loosely. I am going to St. Eustatius which is an island in the dutch antilles which is kinda near the Virgen Islands and Puerto Rico to work as a botanical garden […]