End of November Pictures

Hey Everyone,

Today is the last day of November, and we will be home in 18 days!! We are sooo excited. As the end of our time here gets closer, I've realized that there's a lot about every day life here that I've left out of my blogging. So I'm working on a couple of posts about random parts of life in Dominica, so be looking for those to be posted soon.

In the meantime, I'll give you a quick re-cap on whats been happening in our life the last few weeks. Things have been pretty crazy as we start to wrap up life here. Sam's finished with classes now, so these last three weeks are full of lots of tests. He has a really important test Monday morning, so be praying about that if you get the chance. He is VERY ready to come home and get a short break.

I'm all finished with work now, so I can focus on finishing school and everything else, and also just because I was ready to be done. :) So last week I ran in my first 5k! Pictures of me at the end are posted below. I was pretty happy with my time, 27:40, considering it was my first one and I wasn't training for it at all. So hopefully it'll be the first of many. Yesterday I got to on a hiking excursion with some of the newer spouses on the island. It was really fun. Pictures of that are below as well.

The format on this blog has changed, and so for some reason I can't post the pictures with the words, so all the pictures are below. First off are the pictures from the 4th semester banquet that was a few weeks ago. I had been looking forward to that night pretty much since we first got on the island, and it was really fun. It was nice to get all dressed up and relax a bit with our friends, celebrating completing all 4 semesters on the island! It was a really nice night. There's also some pictures of the spouses banquet, which was a lot of fun as well.

Thanksgiving was nice. We were missing home, but still had a very nice day here. I cooked all the food for us, and it was just Sam and I and James, but we had a good day. Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We'll see you in 18 days!!

Love, Katrina

This is me nearly falling to my death (my foot slipped just as I jumped off). Nothing was injured except for my pride (and I did manage a pretty spectacular belly-flop).Fortunately, I jumped again after, and didn't almost die that time, but I don't have a picture of it.