First impressions? HOLY CRAP IT'S HOT!!! So we left fairly well adjusted to the temperatures down here, returning after three months in relatively cool CA the adjustment back into Grenada's temperatures and humidity has been hard on our systems. The last term, aka the "dry season", varied in temperature from about 78-83 and around 60% humidity. Comparatively we are now in the "wet season" and the temps are 81-88 and humidity 65-100%. (so far, three days into our stay here) So the numbers indicate only a slight change yet it seems like a massive difference.
It was REALLY nice to come back to an apartment already setup and waiting for us, we had to pay rent over the summer which stunk but having all our stuff setup ahead of time was GREAT!
On the flight down here in January we watched with amazement as lots of SGU students sat very relaxed on the plane and chatted as if they were just traveling to the next city over, not thousands of miles around the globe onto an underdeveloped island in the Caribbean which had been major political unrest only 15 years prior, and devastated by Hurricane Ivan only four years prior. Now we get it. Although traveling makes Megan and I quite anxious we were far more relaxed and looking forward to getting "home".
Although Grenada is more "normal" now, it still ceases to amaze us and make us laugh. For example the first night out walking the dogs I came across a snail. "OK, so what?" you say. Well apparently in Grenada snails get a LOT bigger then in CA. The snail was just mozzing along through the grass. In what has become a normal blogging fashon the first thought I had was "Quick get a picture of this thing!"
As you can see above this thing was pretty darn big. The snail wasn't too fond of being picked up and hauled off his slimy path which probably took him hours to progress to. He's mostly up inside his shell in this photo but as you can see by my hand being right behind him, he's about 4 inches long and almost two inches in diameter. That's one BIG slime trail.Remember that shower head I mentioned in one of my very first bloggs about Grenada? Well the fun hasn't ended. The shower head is designed to be threaded onto the water pipe so that it faces perfectly straight down. Whom ever installed it threaded it incorrectly and pointed it slightly down and towards the back wall, which convienetly has a faucet pointing out of it right at hip level. This made getting any part of our bodies from the hip level down wet quite a yoga act. Megan and I decided to ask again to see if we could get this fixed. "Oh sure no problem, how did you deal with that before?!?"... So while we were out the Electrician came and uh "fixed it". Now because it has 240V DC wired directly to it they called an electrician, even though the problem really has to do with the plumbing. Either way we returned to find our shower head looking like this...
At this point you might be saying "ok i don't get the hose thing but it looks ok to me." Lets take a closer look.
As you can see by the red lines it's still far from 90 degrees. At the point of this picture the shower head was still totally clogged up so the water fell with very poor pressure mostly straight down. I have NO idea how or why the Electrician thought it was a good idea to put the hose (see blue arrow) on the FRONT side of the shower head. This makes it impossible to actually get under the shower head to get wet. This used to be on the back side facing the wall with the faucet. Also note our favorite faucet in the red circle to which our hips bump into constantly.So partially fixed one problem and caused another... ugh. This is when the engineer side in me takes over. Forget asking for help, if you want it done right do it your self. I took off the face of the shower head cleaned it out (see sand and other roof stuff, remember water recycling post?), and put it on with the hose facing backwards as it should be. Of course by unclogging it now the water pours through as it should with higher pressure and is right up against that lovely faucet again... lol! You've gotta just laugh or you'll go crazy. One of these days I'll get the courage up to just take the whole thing off, unwire it and do it all over, but until then we take Yoga Showers.
We're looking forward to another fun term in Grenada!
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