Sunday at noon, after watching the "sweeping the floor" process at Blue Waters dive shop while talking with Audrey, I came home inspired and started sweeping my own deck floor that was completely covered with sand, dust, leaves and more..
It took me quite a while since it was a really hot day, the deck is large and there was a breeze working against me but after a few minutes I got the rhythm of it until I felt that someone was looking at me. You know. That thing that you feel without even looking... There he was. A kid about 5 years old, standing by one of the tables on the deck looking how I was trying to clean.
There was a group of kids on the pier. A couple of them in the water, another on the beach, and this one in my house, just looking around,observing me, saying hello. This is the kind of things that you can see here and somewhere else would be unacceptable. I asked how he was. He said ok and continued walking around checking if the areas I had already swept were clean or not and when he was tired he went back to the beach.
Really nice kids. Very polite. All of them said goodbye before picking up their shoes and leaving the beach.
It's the first time I see them swimming here but I have seen kids playing on the beach close to SandBar and Sunset Cabana. However many of the kids around here do not know how to swim. It sounds absurd, living on an island but that's the way it is.
It sounds weird for many people because in most of the countries, swimming lessons are part of the basic training as a safety measure. But not everywhere.
I know that Jazmin and Daniel are teaching the kids how to swim Sundays afternoon close to Sunny Side, just because they want the kids to learn. And they enjoy to see them improving their skills every week and not being afraid of being in the water. I find that amazing since they are opening one extraordinary door for those kids.
I also know that last year there was a special program for local school kids, so they could learn how to dive. I saw them diving with some of the Oasis dive masters. But, for that, they have to know how to swim first.
I hope eventually swimming will be part of the basic education also here... Or someone starts a program to teach adults too. We'll see...
Sometimes there are so many suggestions, so many things that can be done on the island to improve quality of life that it drives me crazy not to be able to do much about it.
But well, I have to go now to get some internet connection to send emails and things like that. I try to write off line now, so I suffer the mosquitoes around me just for a few minutes while pasting the texts and sending them...
Have a great evening and see you tomorrow...
It took me quite a while since it was a really hot day, the deck is large and there was a breeze working against me but after a few minutes I got the rhythm of it until I felt that someone was looking at me. You know. That thing that you feel without even looking... There he was. A kid about 5 years old, standing by one of the tables on the deck looking how I was trying to clean.
There was a group of kids on the pier. A couple of them in the water, another on the beach, and this one in my house, just looking around,observing me, saying hello. This is the kind of things that you can see here and somewhere else would be unacceptable. I asked how he was. He said ok and continued walking around checking if the areas I had already swept were clean or not and when he was tired he went back to the beach.
Really nice kids. Very polite. All of them said goodbye before picking up their shoes and leaving the beach.
It's the first time I see them swimming here but I have seen kids playing on the beach close to SandBar and Sunset Cabana. However many of the kids around here do not know how to swim. It sounds absurd, living on an island but that's the way it is.
It sounds weird for many people because in most of the countries, swimming lessons are part of the basic training as a safety measure. But not everywhere.
I know that Jazmin and Daniel are teaching the kids how to swim Sundays afternoon close to Sunny Side, just because they want the kids to learn. And they enjoy to see them improving their skills every week and not being afraid of being in the water. I find that amazing since they are opening one extraordinary door for those kids.
I also know that last year there was a special program for local school kids, so they could learn how to dive. I saw them diving with some of the Oasis dive masters. But, for that, they have to know how to swim first.
I hope eventually swimming will be part of the basic education also here... Or someone starts a program to teach adults too. We'll see...
Sometimes there are so many suggestions, so many things that can be done on the island to improve quality of life that it drives me crazy not to be able to do much about it.
But well, I have to go now to get some internet connection to send emails and things like that. I try to write off line now, so I suffer the mosquitoes around me just for a few minutes while pasting the texts and sending them...
Have a great evening and see you tomorrow...
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