NC to Belize

OK. I'm back-posting (a new term I learned from the undergraduates). I left NC on April 2nd.The flight from the U.S. was uneventful. I slept most of the way. I was up until 1:30 am packing and woke up at 4:30 am to get to the airport. I arrived in Belize City at 11:30 am, Belize time (2 hr. difference). This trip I decided to take Tropic Air from Belize City to San Pedro instead of the water taxi. It's about a 20 minute flight to the Island of Ambergris Caye in a single engine plane that carries eight people. I've never tried to imbed a video into my blog before, so if this works, you'll see the island of San Pedro from the air.

Countdown unsuccesful

Well, I didn't do very well with my countdown. I am in day 10 in Belize of my third trip to Belize so I will have to back up a bit and try to get my blog posts caught up.

Count Down

OK. I thought I would start a count down to motivate me to start blogging. I'm not sure where you start counting. It's Wednesday afternoon, and I leave Monday morning. So...I'm going to say it's a five day count down.
This trip to Belize will be my longest stay yet, 26 days. I will be assisting in the supervision of 10 undergraduate students serving student teaching internships in Belize schools,  four doctoral students serving an internship, and 16 U. S. school administrators visiting the schools in Belize. The undergraduates will spend 5 1/2 weeks in Belize, the doctoral interns will spend two weeks, and the administrators will be there one week.
When people hear that I am going to Belize, they automatically think of vacation time, but this job really is hard work. There is very little down time, even on weekends. In addition to all that I mentioned, while I am in Belize I am still responsible for completing assignments in my final two doctoral classes (YES! No more classes after May 2nd!), as well as conducting research for my dissertation and collecting informaton for an article.  There is no rest for the weary, but I have to say that one can't find a much prettier environment in which to work.