As I am sure you realize we did finally get to St. Johns after our delay in New York. It was a busy stay with studying to get my nursing registration and working as a Child minder. My heart was stolen while I worked and I have left a piece of it in the hands of a little boy named Elliott.
Firstly I needed to complete 4 courses in Pharmacology, Mental Health, Nursing Assessment and Health Challenges and the Nursing Interventions. Well pleased to say I managed to pass them all. Next visit I have to work 400 hours and then write my NCLEX exams, which are the final exams all nurses in USA and Canada write to qualify. Then FINALLY I hope to be able to get a job and earn some income.
Between studies I stared looking after a 1 year old little boy when his Mummy returned to work after her maternity leave. He totally stole my heart. He is so clever and I just loved teaching him something new each day I was there. Watching him learn things as he played. He adores music and his favourite thing was to play his toy guitar that has pre tuned tones. We had great fun getting as many musical things to play at the same time. One of my favourite times was when he was ready for his nap and would climb into my lap to have his tummy tickled as he fell asleep. I loved the time with him. A delightful child and a total charmer. A little Prince of Hearts. It is not hard to see the apple does not fall far from the tree. His Mum, Kate and Dad Chris crept into my heart too. I am looking forward to our return next year when there will be a little brother or sister in the family.
I also cared for another delightful little boy called Rilan for a short time. Lisa, his mum, was the one who introduced me to Kate to begin looking after Elliott.
As you know most of our time in St. Johns is during the summer months. Summer there is a little different to the long hot summers we know. For example the first weekend Andre took me out to Cape Spear rot view a HUGE iceberg floating just off the shore. As we watched it broke into two pieces and tumbled over. Large pieces washed right up to the shore.
The time flew by and snow started falling. Our sign its time to get out of town and head South. At least we had moved into an apartment during our stay so there was no snow shovelling this time.
During Andre's off time he was able to fly back to the boat and get things sorted out and even managed to visit South Africa. The timing didn't work for me as it was right in the middle of my exams.
Its always a joy to get back home to the boat. With Andre having worked on her on his off time there was less to do to get her ready to sail. Even so, our plans to join our friends In Cay West for New Year didn't happen. It turned out to be a blessing as they had horrible weather for the Cays. We finally met up with them in Miami before crossing to Bimini Bahamas.
