Last Week....

so yeah last week I missed like 3 days of school!!!...yay!!...and I'm soooooooooo missing it!!

A couple of my language sisters and myself volunteered as liason officers for the commonwealth finance ministers' meeting which was held at Sandals Grande..We each were assigned the heads of delegations for different countries in the commonwealth. I got Cyprus, and well my girls got St. Kitts, Mozambique, Ghana, Guyana...just to name a few...

Our job entailed picking up our delegates at their respective hotels and taking them to the meeting at Sandals Grande which started at 9:00 a.m. from Monday October 6th- Wednesday October 8th...Mine was staying at the Almond Morgan Bay..Other hotels included Coco Palm, The Landing, Bay Gardens, Royal St.Lucian and Sandals Grande itself..

We were assigned our own drivers with some AWESOME rides. They had to pick us up at home and take us to meet our delegates. That was a lot of responsibilty.. I reveled in it!!...So anyway my delegate just arrived in St. Lucia on the Saturday since he hadn't sent any itinerary to the ministry of external affairs and I had to go look for him on the Sunday..I met him totally by accident outside the hotel lobby..apparently he had already registered for his ID card and stuff so that made my job so much easier!!!...He wanted to go sightseeing with his wife...I was like WHOA....mind you I was in a suit and wedges..I was like O SHIT!!..so I climbed all the way up to the monument at pigeon point in those shoes...then to Place Kassav...(the cassava bread there is soooo DELICIOUS!!)..then to Soufriere at the diamonds falls then the sulphur springs..my feet were killing me man!! Finally the driver recommended the hummingbird beach resort for lunch the grilled tuna there was out of this world!!!

Then back to Castries...my delegate lost his luggage and well American Airlines did not send it to him and he was quite distraught and annoyed and agitated...he got his luggage eventually...like the Monday afternoon...well I find I fared well under all his pressure..I did my best to calm him down...Sunday night there was a cocktail at Royal St. Lucian, Monday night the opening ceremony cocktail where we, the liason officers got to mingle with all the delegates and my favorite: the cocktail at Bay Gardens..the shrimp, n fish was out of this world!!!!..it hurt my heart when my delegate was ready to leave...*SIGH*

I miss the police escorts where the vehicles had to stay near the side of the road and had to allow us to pass and we got to escape that awful traffic....also the official plates...mine was "OFFICIAL 50" that was sooo coooooool man!!...And all of us chilled @ the pub in Sandals Grande whilst the meeting was going on...kixxin off to pass the time...my delegate left the same Wednesday that the meeting was ending...I was happy that the hard work and all the walking up and down was ending but I miss the whole vibe!!..it was all in all an awesome experience..lots of laughs..some girls were asked to elope and to move to the respective countries...hilarious shit!!!..and some of us got some serious tips 2!!..DINERO BABY!!..so we did in a sense get paid...how kool is that!!....now it's a new week and I'm still in the same shit..ton of assignments....I miss last week when I really didn't have a care in the world and school was a distant, distant memory.