Last Update in the Caribbean
On Thursday, after dinner our team took a walk in the neighborhood behind the SI base. It took us a while to find the key to the gate. Turned out it was literally a key labeled “back gate key”. Next, we had to find the gate which took us through a mini garden giving us major “Secret Garden” vibes.
The walk was very pretty but most of it was steep hills. There were different villas throughout the walk. At one point, we stopped because we were couldn’t walk anymore. We were about to turn back, but Spencer ran ahead and came back saying that it was a really cool view of the mountains just over the hill. We made our way with three huge dogs pacing us behind a barbed fence. They looked like they totally could’ve jumped the fence.
The view really was breathtaking. The sunset was gorgeous and there were also cows grazing just behind the fence.
During the rest of the team time, we talked and had the opportunity to paint a brick in the chapel. SI base has a chapel with brick walls and every team that comes can paint something on a brick as a memory. We painted a croc with different memory jibbits from our trip.
On Friday, Jordynn’s team went to get their nails done, Harpreet and Cheyanne’s team went out to eat, Spencer, Sofiya and Mark went to their regular site to hang out with the kids, and Alyssa edited the trip video at the base and then went to the river with her team.
After everyone was back, we got our phones back and Sofiya and Alyssa could finally post a BeReal!
We got ready for our last dinner which was a banquet dinner. We had chicken Alfredo, rice and pork chops. We had all of our site leaders and their families also join us for the night.
After dinner, we had presentation night, where we worshipped, shared our experiences and the media team shared a very beautiful spoken word and photo presentation as well as the outreach video. SI pastor shared a message and prayed over us as we headed home.
At the end, we had cake, coffee and our site leaders gave us cards with our team photos and a letter for each of us. It was really sweet.
At 10:30, we headed to our cabins and started packing for our 4 am departure. Most of us decided we weren’t going to sleep but we were all out by 1 am and were able to take a short nap.
At just before 4 am, we threw our suitcases into the bus (literally through a window) and headed for the airport, hearts full with joy over our experience in the Caribbean.