In Grand Turk, Turk and Caicos, BWI, more than one year after ...

After living for more than 13 months on this beautiful small British island and having a blog in Argentinian spanish for my friends to know about my day-to-day life in here, I decided that it is time to write about what's going on in my life right now, this time in English (or my best attempt of English).

Things are changing a lot for me these days and I want to write a little bit every day, since writting has always helped me to think and discover some things that were hidden inside me.

For now, I just want to start by saying that today I am packing all my stuff to move from the flat where I have been living since July 2009 with my boyfriend and love of my life, Felix, who has recently moved back to the UK. So this packing is being a little difficult and slow, since I am trying to do a "purging and cleansing" process and trying not to get hooked up in nostalgia (now better than ever the beautiful Portuguese word "saudades" not easy to translate...).
Starting tomorrow evening I will be house-sitting a beautiful place on the beach. Actually taking care of part of it only, since the rest will be locked as storage room.

I will have a small and perfect bedroom with a beautiful bed with a Caribbean style mosquito net from the roof, a huge kitchen with everything needed to make me want to cook everyday :) and a bathroom outside, plus... a fantastic deck facing the ocean with a hamac a chairs and small tables. This is a shot of the deck taken a few weeks ago just before a wedding reception.

And this is the view
from the beach ...

I love this house. Since the first time I came to Grand Turk, I thought "I wish I could live here one day ..." Well, my wish came true!
To make it even more perfect: I will have a dog named Paws. One of the many potcakes on the island. Cute, sweet and wild as all of them are. For those who wonder what "potcake" means, I will save you the google search by providing the Wikipedia info: Potcakes are indigenous mixed breed dobs found in two Caribbean territories, namely The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos (here). The dogs get their name from potcake, the food caked, and maybe burnt, on the bottom of cooking pots. These scrapings were fed to dogs, hence the association between the name of the food and the dog.

I am also about to become a dive master, hopefully in the following days. I am waiting to take my last two tests: rescue exercise and swimming test. Not very happy about this last one since I am not a very fast swimmer and, honestly, I never tried before to swim 400 yards non stop but Mitch (Blue Waters Divers owner and instructor) says that he's sure I will pass. I wish I had his confidence. But diving is what I love the most, so this is the last step to be formally a diving pro :)
I have to go back to the packing process and also make some phone calls for some on line remote work (yes, I work sometimes ... I need money to live, you know. Life is not for free in paradise...)
See you later or tomorrow.