I am loving these last days.

Cristina and I did the social skills class at the Bronte Welsh Primary School. We tried applying some activities from Ruhi Book 5 (Teaching Children's Classes: Grade 2). The real materials for the programme only arrived today and we have been improvising with anything and everything we can think of that is a refreshingly positive alternative to the physical and emotional violence they are used accustomed to. The session had it's difficulties due to a still increasing level of cooperation and mutual respect, but it was wonderful that the responsible teacher is playing a more active role because she will have to take over when CJ and I are gone. Even though she gave licks to the boy who was having a bad day emotionally, she did appeal to some other boys' sense of forgiveness to resolve a conflict. Hey, we'll take what we can get!

Off to Basseterre High School for the closing ceremony of a series of empowering presentations for students from four primary schools organised by the Young Leaders team of the high school. There were a couple amazing things about the event. Well, we saw some people whom we haven't seen since the initial Virtues Project™/Breezes of Confirmation training at the beginning of September, which is nothing surprising. It was exciting, though, that the youth remembered us from that event, but we are not all they remembered... Much more importantly and way more exciting, the girl who gave a synopsis of their project directly quoted a certain talk on programs for the spiritual empowerment of junior youth from a certain 2004 conference in Sydney and Perth, Australia – twice! The second time was, unbeknownst to her, the words of `Abdu'l-Bahá. Also, the minister who gave the keynote used `Abdu'l-Bahá's analogy of an uncultivated plot of land becoming very bushy and ugly, just as an uneducated child becomes unpleasant and a burden.

WHOOPS!!! We locked Darlene out of the Centre for two hours while we were at the ceremony. She was worried that we had gotten in an accident – not a happy camper. Our bad!

Becky and her mom came over for a great devotional. We, of course, had the requisite prayer for the Bahá'ís in Iran. (See bahai.org/iranthreat if you haven't yet.) This was followed by delicious dinner of mac&cheese, string beans, and a desert of ginger ice cream and ginger snaps. While Kay and the mom chatted about the Faith, Cory and Becky taught us Kittitian dominos. It's fun! I want to share it with friends back "home" this summer. CJ and I taught them hukm. They enjoyed it.