B-day in the Caribbean!!

Even though it felt like I spent most of the day in the kitchen yesterday (with kitchen duty in the morning as well as dinner and washing afterwards!), I had a lovely b-day here in Richmond Vale and everyone was super nice to me today (even more than usual!). They made a yummy coconut cake for me and a card written in different languages and very pretty (pink) flowers from the garden in a makeshift vase ;) Today it’s a week since I arrived and it already feels like I have been here for a while, especially since I have already made many friends 
But the best gift yesterday was having running water again! Yey! It was only a few days without but it felt like ages! It was also just in time for the cooking – first time since I arrived – we had to make fresh pasta since we were out. Luckily today was shopping day and I got to go to Kingstown, the capital. It was just as tiring as they said it would be – because it takes ages to get there and back and waiting in lines and shopping for a bunch of people (on top of the food list, we have other lists from people for personal stuff which they cannot get in the village). In any case it was nice to go to the city and have a different kind of day. It was nice to get to know the city a bit (it’s quite small and easy to find your way around) and to see the markets, shops and restaurants. I hope I will still enjoy it after six months ;)
Yesterday was also really important as we started deciding which countries we would like to go to. There are some returned students here doing there evaluation period and they presented their experiences in Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa. These are also the countries we can choose from. Although we do not yet know of the exact available positions in these countries, we already need to choose a country so that we can start with the language classes. Portuguese for those who will go to Mozambique and English for those who will go to Malawi or South Africa. For those of us already fluent in either of the languages, we will tutor the others and there is also the possibility to learn Spanish if we can fit it in the schedule.
I’ve not yet chosen a country, but I am weighing out Malawi or South Africa so I don’t need to join the Portuguese classes, although I still can out of interest. I hope I can still keep my option between the two countries open until I know which projects are exactly available. They are probably the same projects they’ve been working with so far, Child Aid, HIV/AIDS and Teacher Training, all of which I am very interested in! But I’ll let you know which one I end up choosing...
Attached pic is a view of the school from a nearby village. can you see the rainbow? We're at the pot of gold! Will upload some pictures of Kingstown soon.