Back on the "Rock"

I had a wonderful 10 days in Tennessee! I ate tons of delicious food, including about 5 steaks, took long, hot showers, drove my car, visited with family and friends and slept in my own comfortable bed. Ryan asked what the best part of being home was and one of the things I mentioned was walking around the house barefoot. I forgot how good that feels...to walk around on clean carpet. We keep our shoes or house shoes on here. I left bright and early (actually it was not bright at all, it was totally dark) Monday morning to come back to Dominica. After a long 4 flights, going through different securities, customs, checking into 2 different airlines and waiting for one flight that was delayed, I finally made it back to the rock. Theo was at the airport waiting for me and we had a nice long conversation on the hour drive to my apartment. I got to hear about all of the Dominican holidays and their traditions for celebrating them. I thought that it would be really hard to come back, but it really wasn't. I was really excited to see Ryan and I know that we are only here for 6 1/2 more weeks before we come home for Christmas for 3 1/2 weeks! Not too much is going on. Ryan is buried in schoolwork and I am searching for a new place for us to live next semester. I was very excited to unpack all of the stuff I purchased at home for our apartment. I brought Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations and a LOT of candles and febreeze products to cover up that "Dominica" smell. Thanks to Theresa, I started knitting yesterday and am addicted. I would try to sell the stuff I knit, but there isn't much demand for scarves here!
This Saturday we are having a carnival on campus for all the children to come and trick-or-treat and play harvest festival type games. They will all have their Halloween costumes on. I'm looking forward to that. I wanted us to go as Gilligan and Mary Ann (since I feel like we're living on Gilligan's Island), but I never found a hat for Ryan to wear.