In my last post I spoke briefly about my little hobby of
imagining up horror stories. I was thinking about this a lot lately trying to
figure out where that started. I think I figured out where it all began, and by
sharing it with you, you all might think me a little less crazy. Remember that
old TV show “Are you afraid of the Dark?” It was one of my favorites growing
up! At the beginning of the show all the kids would gather around a camp fire
and one would start telling a ghost story and that would be the show. I loved
it. Joel did too which makes me happy, we can reminisce about all our favorite episodes.
I remember as a kid when I watched it I was determined to be on that show
someday as well as “Where in the World is Carmen San Diego”, and “The Price is
Right”. Well I did make it to the Price is Right 6 years ago for Bob Barkers
last year, but I didn’t get called up on stage, and my parents did buy
me a pretty fantastic “Where in the World is Carmen San Diego computer game as
a kid, which I think helped fulfill my longing for it. But at no time in my
life was my need to appear on “Are you afraid of the Dark” ever satisfied.
Again, going back to when I was a kid and I was SURE that someday I would
appear on the show; I had to be ready with a pretty fantastic Ghost Story to tell
when the producers called and invited me (of course it never occurred to me
that the show had writers that would do that part for me). Thus, everywhere I
went I was thinking up possible Ghost stories, and since my need to tell these
stories was never satisfied properly, over the years they have progressed into
full out horror movies. See when you think about it that way, I am not quite so
weird am I? On that note, can I just say...this Island keeps getting
Better and Better!! Sunday evening we had been at the school in the “Family
Lounge” with friends playing games, and taking advantage of the free air conditioning
and already filtered water. On our way home Joel and I have to walk past the Anatomy
lab. The windows are high on the building, but are not covered, every once in a
while I will jump up to see into the window just in case a cadaver was left out
and I might get a peek. Sunday night,
Joel takes a look inside and says “Oh, the cadavers were left out”. Sure
enough, 30 of them all sitting out on the tables. All of them were covered with
sheets, but every so often you could see a foot or a heat sticking out. That
was a sight I don’t think I could ever forget. I realized that night as we
walked home in the dark with many bats swooshing overhead, the obvious truth
that a tiny Island Medical school is the perfect setting for a zombie story.
Why didn’t I realize this before? So without further ado- Submitted for the
approval of the Midnight Society, I call this Story The Tale of Caribbean Curse....Just
Kidding!! (Editor’s note: For anyone unfamiliar with Are you afraid of the
Dark, that’s the way every kid would start telling their Ghost story, and they
had a little bag of powder they would throw into the fire as they said it to
make the fire get all big and scary.)
Alright, I suppose I will move on to some information about our lives here that people might care about. Not too much has been happening as Joel has been busy studying like crazy for his first test-but that certainly wont stop me from writing a 2000+ word blog post!
Alright, I suppose I will move on to some information about our lives here that people might care about. Not too much has been happening as Joel has been busy studying like crazy for his first test-but that certainly wont stop me from writing a 2000+ word blog post!
I receive a calling in the
Branch. I got called as the First Counselor in the Relief Society-Hurray!!! I
am extremely excited about this calling. It’s what I was really hoping for.
Sunday night 2 of our friends returned home after playing games with us at the school and something really horrible happened (no they were not attacked by zombies-this was much worse), they got home and while they were gone, a pipe had burst in the apartment above them and had completely flooded their entire apartment. Water was pouring in through the ceiling and all down the walls. They called their landlord who came and shut the water off and they had to clear all the water out of the upstairs apartment so it would stop waterfalling into theirs (the upstairs people were not home) and after it was clear they finally got to work on their own apartment. All of the outlets were completely submerged, so it will be a while before the landlord even dares turn the electricity back on. In the mean time they were moved into a different apartment the landlord's family owns. They are a first semester couple as well, and this was all the night before their first test! So so sad!! They did receive a lot of help and support from the ward and it was really fantastic to see people go out of their way and be helpful even the night before the first test when the timing was not great for anyone. Pray for HUGE blessings for my friends and all those so willing to help them at this time. There are a lot of really fantastic people here.
Sunday night 2 of our friends returned home after playing games with us at the school and something really horrible happened (no they were not attacked by zombies-this was much worse), they got home and while they were gone, a pipe had burst in the apartment above them and had completely flooded their entire apartment. Water was pouring in through the ceiling and all down the walls. They called their landlord who came and shut the water off and they had to clear all the water out of the upstairs apartment so it would stop waterfalling into theirs (the upstairs people were not home) and after it was clear they finally got to work on their own apartment. All of the outlets were completely submerged, so it will be a while before the landlord even dares turn the electricity back on. In the mean time they were moved into a different apartment the landlord's family owns. They are a first semester couple as well, and this was all the night before their first test! So so sad!! They did receive a lot of help and support from the ward and it was really fantastic to see people go out of their way and be helpful even the night before the first test when the timing was not great for anyone. Pray for HUGE blessings for my friends and all those so willing to help them at this time. There are a lot of really fantastic people here.
Monday morning, I walked to school with Joel. He stopped off for
his test and I kept walking up towards my friends house so I could help her
pack up all her stuff so she could move later that day. They live(d) at the top
of this Giant Hill that has a lot of housing units around so the vast majority
of students live somewhere up the hill. As I was walking up, a hoard of
students were shuffling their way down. I just want everyone to know that
seeing a couple hundred medical students walking towards their first test was honestly
more frightening and closer to resembling zombies then anything a person could
see in real life ( I promise you! This is coming from the girl who the previous
night witnessed a room of 30 real dead dissected human beings---the students
are scarier!). All of the students had huge black bags under their eyes like
they hadn’t slept in a week (which they mostly probably haven’t, too busy
studying for this test), all were slouched, and hunched as they shuffled down
the hill, none of them carrying anything, (the test center only lets you take a
pencil into the test-no wallets-no bags-not even a phone) arms just limp at
their sides, slowing and quietly inching their way towards their impending
doom. I am pretty sure I even saw a few of them with their mouths gaping open
and drool falling all over themselves. I hugged right up against a parked truck on
the side of the road-just waiting to see if any of them were going to make an
aggressive move in my direction. If so I would be ready to put my Zombie apocalypse
plan into action. (PS. If there are any Walking Dead fans out there- Step 1 in
the Zombie apocalypse plan is to break into the vehicle you are standing next
to and drive away, do not- I repeat DO NOT attempt to hide UNDER the car- I cannot
stress this enough, also if you don’t feel confident in your ability to steal a
car-please familiarize yourself on this wiki-how to hot wire a car link. http://www.wikihow.com/Hotwire-a-Car
). Lucky for me the Hoard passed peacefully so I was able to continue up the
hill to my friends house. Her and I packed up her whole house and when the boys
got done their test they were able to move all the stuff down the hill into the
new apartment.
(I will note that I got BBQ Pineapple Chicken that was
really good and Joel got curry chicken which he enjoyed as well. So we kind of
lucked out).
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| Peter the Transport Driver |
On the note of stick
with the good and avoid the bad...we hired the same transport driver who took
us on our Island Tour a few weeks ago. His name is Peter and he is FANTASTIC!
If any of you come to visit us we will for sure hire him to take us around.
When we went on the Island tour a few weeks ago he stopped a few times to buy
some native fruit from the locals and gave us all some of each. It was super
sweet of him. He sent Joel and I home with an Avocado each. When we went
driving with him last night he asked us how we liked our Avocados, he seemed
pained when I told him the truth, that Joel tried to make Guacamole out of his
and it was a very gross failure, which he later learned was because it was not
ripe yet. The type of Avocados he gave us start out green but turn purple when
they are ripe. My Avocado was turning purple and I took this to mean it was
going rotten so I threw it away, mere hours before Joel came home and told me
that meant it was turning ripe. Peter was not at all happy about this and while
we were at dinner he went out and bought another Avocado for me and gave me
very specific instructions on how to eat it properly. It should take about 3
days to get ripe so I will inform you all how it goes. I told Peter I could
call him and let him know how it turns out as well and he laughed. Joel and I
had a great time. Great Company and funny stories. Here are just some pictures
from the drive towards Red Rock. I could
say more but Joel says this post is too long already. He is probably right.
