Archive for 'Holy Cross School'
The Heart of Nature – Belize
Posted on September 2, 2010 in Holy Cross School, Island Life, Useful information
Things are moving right along – Harold [and Gayle Cox] emailed me wanting to donate $100 usd towards a wheelbarrow and possibly a back support belt. He asked if I could find out of Pedro’s Hotel would allow him to run his card there since they know him from a recent visit – Pedro was [...]
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The big Day
Posted on August 26, 2010 in Go Green, Holy Cross School, Island Life
It’s 5:45 am – having a hard time snapping my head into place. Today is the big day starting with the morning show. After that hoping we get some down time before we have to go pick up Lucien from the Planetary Coral Reef foundation and waste water Garden rep for Belize. We are taking [...]
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Belize History in the Making
Posted on August 25, 2010 in Go Green, Holy Cross School, Island Life, Useful information
This is a very interesting and important time in the history of Ambergris Caye and Belize - last night Heather Cathy and I literally ’shot the shit’ and had a great brainstorming session. They told me all about their day and by the end of our chat we had filled in a couple of new [...]
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Scholarship Fund
Posted on June 23, 2010 in Holy Cross School, Island Life
At the airport Monday Joey was joking around about how my blog would be back to the usual stuff now that they are gone and we are not packing so much in every day. I agreed and told him that he would still be seeing lots of people hew knew on the blog as they [...]
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Slap Happy
Posted on June 3, 2010 in Holy Cross School, Island Life, Useful information
Still feeling slap happy in regards to mosquitoes here right now. Many agree this is the worst it has been in a long long time. I may have said this recently but it is worth repeating. If you are planning a trip here anytime soon please remember to pack your bug spray. If you get [...]
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Books & Boats
Posted on December 3, 2009 in Holy Cross School, Water Fun
Been trying to get text and pics up off and on all day with not much luck till now – I finally managed to get 3 pictures up of the new movie theater. Will get some Boca Del Rio and Hol Chan pics up tomorrow – it’s 10pm and time to step away from my [...]
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There and back
Posted on August 1, 2009 in Holy Cross School, Island Life
Today was a busy day. Sandra and I went to the school to drop off soccer balls that she brought from Canada. While there we did a quick tour around the school and San Mateo. Sandra got to meet Miss Francis and Mr Vernon and we saw the teacher training via University of Belize in [...]
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Affordable Belize Real Estate Raffle
Posted on May 11, 2009 in Holy Cross School, Useful information
So much going on it’s hard to know where to begin.
Last night I was trying get pics off underwater digi cam so I could check out how well beach and underwater settings look and get to work blogging them. For some reason it was not working this time – so I put in the Vivitar [...]
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a Good Friday
Posted on April 10, 2009 in Holy Cross School, Island Life
St Michael’s mission team is back at Holy Cross School to help out and do vacation bible camp. For many of the members this will be their 3rd time back. They do a fabulous job with the kids and have been a big help in the construction process over the course of their visit’s.
I got [...]
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Friday 13th – incoming
Posted on February 13, 2009 in Holy Cross School, Message boarders
Already got my day off with a running start and have managed 45 min free time before Ruthie and Chunky pick me up for the pool at 9:45am. After class I will hitch a ride with Maureen up to the school to take pics of the Valentine fair then back home to meet up with [...]
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It’s finally here…
Posted on January 21, 2009 in Holy Cross School, Useful information
Another exciting thing happened here on San Pedro this past weekend. A container with 2/3 of the playground and a whole bunch of supplies that Dita, Ed and many others worked so hard to organize were delivered to the school.
It could not have been done without help starting from everyone stateside Especially Dita and [...]
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Turkey to spare
Posted on November 28, 2008 in Holy Cross School, Useful information
Samuel is a standard 3 student at Ambergris Caye Elementary school. He recently won a school raffle and the prize was a turkey.
Since his family already had a thanks giving turkey Samuel decided that it would be a good idea to give the turkey to someone who did not have one. Mario and Vicky his [...]
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Tick Tick Tick
Posted on November 17, 2008 in Holy Cross School, Useful information
The clock is totally ticking and my schedule rapidly filling up.
Just booked Dell to come this aft – that was Colette and Maya’s thoughtful birthday present. While she is here I will be up at the school taking some pics of Colette doing her first Humane Education Class teaching the kids to be kind to [...]
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pimpNho Party
Posted on November 1, 2008 in Eat - Sleep - Drink, Fiesta, Holy Cross School
pimpNho party was a not to be missed event, filled with tricked out costumes, spectators and some plain old scary people ha ha. Will leave you with pictures of last nights ho-down. Congrats to all the prize winners and thanks to everyone who came out to enjoy the fun.
Pedro’s would also lke to [...]
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Halloween Fair
Posted on October 31, 2008 in Holy Cross School, Useful information
When a school has a fair it is a way for parents to get involved in their kids education by lending a helping hand. It is also a way for the community to show their appreciation by giving back and helping raise money for the school in their area.
Parents and teachers joined forces today to [...]
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Current TV documentary
Posted on October 22, 2008 in Holy Cross School, Useful information
Finally got the Current TV documentary that Travis made.
Unfortunately I have not been able to watch it properly because it buffers to much on our internet connection. I hit play and let it run through and sometimes get to see a bit more uninterrupted. Looks like I may be waiting on snail mail to [...]
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Poverty – Blog Action Day 2008
Posted on October 15, 2008 in Blog Action Day, Holy Cross School, Useful information
How many of you have ever been really hungry?Do you remember feeling the pangs in your stomach associated with hunger? Imagine growing up poor and living through that daily.
Most of the kids attending Holy Cross Anglican School come from disadvantaged homes and know what it is like to go hungry.
Starting a feeding program was [...]
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