Ouch!

Today I spent most of my time upset about math. I hate it when I don’t understand things. The I start ranting about how my situation is other peoples fault when in reality if I hadn’t screwed around in Sophomore year I wouldn’t have had to take any math during my senior year. In case I haven’t already said this I don’t think that math beyond Geometry is necessary. Especially when I’m most likely not going to ever come in contact with the Quadratic Formula or Imaginary numbers (outside of math class that is).
Anyway after a nice shower I emerged from my sorrow and decided that instead of doing math all in one day I’m going to space out the assignments through out the rest of the week.
When my aunt Vickie got off of work we walked the back streets of Frederksted and she showed me the Moravian church and St. Patrick’s Church. They’ve been there fro a long time. I thought that Moravian was some sort of Island religion but I’ve come to find out that its like German or something. As it got dark this group of Rasta’s set up a speaker system for what I think they thought would be a big event but really turned out to be a small (very loud) get together. It was a cook off but only two of the contestants showed up. I want Rasta locks. One of my aunts used to have Rasta locks that were always tied up in a turban but when she changed jobs she couldn’t get and work with them so she cut them off. I think that if I ever got Rasta locks I’d get too attached to them. Locks are heavy and in the summer they are really hot. Plus all the weight pulling back on your head pulls back your hair line and if you ever somehow got lice it would totally suck.
As it got later we trespassed onto the pier (it was after hours so the gates were locked but a couple rungs of the fence were missing so we squeezed through them). It turns out than almost none of my relatives know how to swim, which I find interesting because they all lived on an island. I considered wading on the rocks for a while but then changed my mind when I saw that they were coated with sea urchin's (there’s no better way to ruin a trip than stepping on an urchin's and one of the spines breaking off in your foot). On the pier there were a lot of other people who trespassed to go fishing, not professionally but as a means for relaxation. I like fishing for that very same reason, I rarely catch anything but I never consider my time spent as time wasted.
Oh yeah, I saw a wild iguana today. I know there are a variety of small lizards on the island but apparently people buy iguanas as pets and let them go. Because of this the iguana population has skyrocketed because they are breeding and multiplying in the wild.
Also there are two McDonald’s, two Kentucky Fried Chickens, One Pizza Hut, One Dominoes, One Wendy’s and One Subway and Two K Marts here. I think its interesting that these franchises managed to make it on the island (apparently there used to be a Burger King but they didn’t make it). It’s funny (or kind of disturbing) how fast food restaurants manage to push themselves into any location or demographic. Did you know a Starbuck's opened up in China's "Forbidden City"?... its a shame.

Until next time…