A typical weekday would start the day before, to prepare lunches for the children in the programme for the following school day. At around 7AM, we wake up and prepare for the day. A bus would pick all of us up from our place of stay (which varies each year: from old military bases, to nurse's homes, from villas to churches), and drive up to Brades' Schoolhouse. You would immediately start the first class, followed by a second class, a break, and then a third class. You could move from being a teacher to assisting another teacher in, for example, the Steel Drum class. It is important to be flexible. Then we would say goodbye to the students and usually go to the hospitals, Look Out to play basketball, take day trips to or near the daytime exclusion zones, or go to the beach. We are free to just be there and spend time learning the culture.

Weekends are usually packed with people having invited us places over the course of the week. Those opportunities are always adventurous. And gorgeous.

At night we usually have an invite to dinner or get together to eat as a team in a restaurant or with locals at our place.

The island is so small. There will not be a single person that has not heard that you are on island after the first couple days. We never run out of places to be and people to spend time knowing.