Today we were in St. Rose Secondary School, Guayave. The picture is of the school. This is fairly typical of all secondary schools in Grenada. The best way to describe them, or compare them to American schools, is that remind me of how our schools would have looked in the 1940s, or possibly earlier. They are simple structures with wooden desks or tables in the classrooms. All secondary students wear uniforms and each school has a unique color. I find this makes the school and students look professional, it's easy to tell who are students. This sounds strange, but there are a lot of people typically walking around in Grenada and sitting on porches and everyone looks younger than what they are. It would be hard to tell who's in high school without uniforms.
Today went well. We had both boys and girls at the same time. Mr. Richard Britton, a friend of mine from my previous visit is the coach and has generated a high level of interest. Both the boys and girls teams finished top 3 in the national Island Secondary School volleyball tournament this year. We began by warming up and then covered passing instruction, spiking, serving, and finally scrimmaged. Everyone seemed excited and had fun. During the hitting section, I had the boys hit as one group and the girls hit as a separate group. Each would shag for the other. One of the girls was standing near the middle of the court and not paying attention. One of the big hitters for the boys hit a very hard ball that landed square on the side of her face! She dropped like a Manicou (squirrel) shot from a tree! She was eventually okay and returned to the court. Several of the girls did not have tennis shoes and wore flip flops. One of the girls 'popped her flop' early and hurt her toe. She ran to the side and kicked her shoes off and returned barefoot. This was amazing because of course, we were on a concrete court and it had to be 100 degrees again!!!
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