Hi everyone! Did you miss me? I'm alive and having a great time. Andros island is nothing like New Providence (AKA Nassau). My first week and a half or so was kind of boring. The hoteliers were just too busy running the hotels to spend time with me and the computers. I did get to do a good deal of diving, but as I said, I won't bore you all with the details ;)

I did meet some cool people at the Forfar Institute. They had met Tray, the other volunteer at a different hotel, and were calling around trying to find him to fix their computer. They managed to find me instead. So in exchange for the 4 hours I spent re-imaging their computer and getting their Internet connection working again, they let me join them for a snorkling day trip and late-afternoon dive trip. Both the snorkling and diving was excellent!

This past Thursday, I transfered to Small Hope Bay Lodge, which is simultaneously the most technologically advanced and most remote hotel I've worked with. Do check the Web site, it's a beautiful place and the people and food are as good as the diving.

Tomorrow (Sunday), I'm going to a wedding of two of the people I met a Forfar: Joe and Heather. I'm up this late (it's now about 12:45am) because I'm working with one of the divemasters here at Small Hope Bay to create some CDs of music as a wedding gift. I've been working 10 hour days since I got here, so I'm plenty tired. But since Jeff (the general manager at Small Hope) has told me that I can dive when I'm not working, I'm trying to get the work done as quickly as possible ;)

Small Hope is the first place I've stayed at that doesn't have air conditioning in the rooms, but they do have A/C in the office. It's also the only place with a serious bug problem. I think I'm going to go thru a full container of bug repellant before the week is up.

Although this has been a fantastic experience, I'm looking forward to being home again. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

When I finally get home, I'll have a chance to upload all my pictures and I'll add a link to this blog.

Stay tuned!