I sleepily rolled over, trying to readjust and get comfortable again to fall back asleep. I peeked at the clock and saw that it was 4:40am, go back to sleep. Then I felt a strange jerking, there was a rumbling sound and everything started to shake. All the sudden I was wide awake, threw off the covers and hopped over to the door. This was my first earthquake! I know, from my years of training in elementary school that the safest place to be during an earthquake was in a door frame and that was the only thing going through my mind. From the time it took for me to get out of bed and over to the door (probably about 4 feet in distance) the shaking was over, everything was back to normal. Nothing had fallen off my desk or counter, there was no dramatic rattling of dishes, it might have been the most boring earthquake in history, but as my first one, I thought it was quite exciting. I stayed awake for awhile wondering if there was more to come, but the only thing that happened was another intense rain storm (the last couple weeks we have had SO much rain!) The newspaper said that it was a 5.1 quake on the Paria Peninsula (in Venezuela) that did not cause any damage here in Trinidad. So what else has been going on, you may ask...well lots of work, lots of soccer and not a ton of anything else. I've visited 3 blood donation centers as a part of my project in different areas of the country, so it has been fun to see how things work in different regions. Politics have shaken some things up with my project as well, since the new government is in power, they may be replacing the Ministry of Health team that had been working with the HIV Surveillance Project that I'm researching. Hopefully the change will be for the better and they will take my findings seriously. I am heading home in just a week, YAY!! I can't wait to see everyone and spend some time with Brenton and the family. I also get to go to a college friend's wedding while home and have some interviews with companies for when I get back (wish me luck!). I'll be back at the beginning of September and mom is coming with to spend a week with me here...then I'll have just 2 months left. Wow. Hopefully I'll be able to get everything done and still get to see all of Trinidad and spend time with some new friends! Here are a couple pics...soccer team I've been playing for, curry duck cook off, and a picture from a concert (sorry I wanted to put up a video of it, but it isn't working!).
Drumming at the Curry Duck Cook-Off, people were dancing like crazy to the drummers, I think alcohol had something to do with it!
Me, Sharon and Christian enjoying our Curry Duck!
A butterfly at the house, I just thought it was pretty...
Me, Oceane and Karyn at the Pan Concert
The soccer team!! Guess what, during our last game (Sunday) I scored a goal!!! I have maybe scored like 5 times in my whole soccer career, so this was very exciting and a perfect way to end my season with them!
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