We have a great group of teachers here with us for the next couple of months. Three of the teachers are teaching classes at resorts where we train local islanders in English using a special hospitality curriculum. Three of the teachers are teaching classes here in our community. The teachers are doing a great job. [...]

Earlier this week some friends from Maalhoss came to our house to stay. Our house gets used pretty often to host our friends. My friend, Kudabe, has 7 kids and any time one of them needs to come to the big city for anything, they usually stay at our house. Kudabe’s daughter had a baby [...]

To my home country island neighbors… The Cox family received a care package today from Texas. In the care package was a 6-pack of 8 oz Dr. Peppers. Unfortunately 1 met it’s demise at the fate of a careless postal worker on the transatlantic journey. Fortunately, the San Angelo Standard Times newspapers and the one [...]

Check out our afternoon catch. We couldnt have done it with out Lateef… my new windsurfing buddy. Latheef likes to borrow my cycle a lot these days too. I told Latheef that I wanted to go hunt octopus today with my friend. Latheef with all smiles says, “ok.” When he showed up at the house [...]

The other day I saw a sign at the bank that announced a bike race on my island. I have always wanted to participate in a bike race. I misread the date on the flyer. I thought the race had already passed and I had missed it. As I was heading up to the office [...]