Living La Vida Corn Island

Karl the Divemaster!
Terry Tarantula








Karl’s Korner
Depuis 3 semaines, j’ai fais plus de 35 plongees rencontre Allemands, Norvegiens, Britaniques. Wier gehen tauchen, nous allons plonger en Allemand, j aurai au moins appris ca. Deux nouveaux instructeurs sont arrives a Dolphin Dive ces jours ci alors ils n’ont plus vraiment besoin de moi.
Heiko nous a demande de j’occuper de sa place encore pour qq mois, nous pensons dire non. Nous sommes tellement bien ici pour le moment, electricite presque 6h par jours, eau courante, douche et toilette. Proximite du village et 3 chambres a coucher pour $200/mois dur a battre. Il pleut tout les jours averses qui durent 10 a 20 minutes ensuite beau soleil. Nous ne savons pas encore si nous restons sur little corn un peu plus longtemps.
Saludos.

After 3 weeks, we learned this week that we are living with the mayor of Little Corn. The political structure here on the island is definitely not as defined as back in Canada. There is no mayor’s office, secretary, welcome…it is all pretty laid back. The Down’s family is really awesome. They have treated us as one of their family…sharing fish they have caught, bread they made and just in welcoming us. We have also been adopted by the family cat named Shampoo (just like Karl’s last name…Champoux).
I did not go volunteering at the school as I thought. The moment never fell into place. As it looks like we will be staying a while longer, perhaps I will make more of an effort.
I have been working on a map of Little Corn. I plan to make a brochure of the island for the tourists here of all the hostels/hotels, restaurants, beaches and dive spots.
Oh yeah, we have also another member to our family…Terry Tarantula! She was quite the surprise. We have not seen her in a while, and I don’t think I really want to.
I also tried to make bread in what the locals call a furnace but I can say that it was not a success. I didn’t put enough coals in the fire so it was not hot enough and the dough did not cook. Needless to say, I went to the coconut bread lady and bought some which saved the day for having toast for breakfast.
Karl was helping Dolphin Dive as a divemaster and did 35 dives in 15 days…a lot of diving. The dive shop is not busy at the moment, so he has had the chance to take a break from the diving. He was really enjoying the diving and meeting all kinds of people! Not much else to report. Hope all is well for everyone tuning into the blog!
Adios por ahora! Rasta MO