Dominica Bowling....

While waiting for our Small Group Learning (SGL) instructor to arrive today, my SGL group started talking about how living in Dominica has been so far.  One of the things that we all agreed upon was that the cows are scary!  (I heard that a new baby cow was born yesterday.  I wonder if the same concept applies to momma cows as momma bears?  I think for now I will just treat the cows as bears and avoid them  at all possible costs!!!) 

Another thing that we talked about was the lack of things to do.  There are tons of nature activities like hiking, diving and snorkeling but after you can't do those things as your sole form of entertainment. There are no "rainy day activities"-- no shopping malls, limited books stores and libraries, no movie theaters, and very limited restaurants.   The only night/rainy day activities are drinking at one of the numerous local bars or watching bad-signal TV.

So we decided that for a fun activity, we needed to develop Dominica Bowling.  Here is how Dominica Bowling would work...

• The pins would be Kubali Bottles (The beer produced on the island that resembles a Henigken). 
• We would use a coconut for the bowling ball.  
• Instead of a bowling alley, we would use the really long dock that is right by campus.
• We would keep score by tally marks in the sand.
• Resetting of the pins would be a little difficult because both the ball and pins would be headed straight into the Caribbean Sea but we figured that would give the divers something to do....they can be our manual pin resetters!

Needless to say we are all going a little stir crazy here on the island but who knows....Dominica-style bowling could be the next big craze!