OT's On The Road

So last week the center was closed for the childrens spring break. We did a home visit on Monday where we basically took school to the home of a boy who is no longer able to make it to the center each day. 

It was an interesting experience as houses in St Vincent don’t have numbers and lots of streets don’t have names so directions my go something like this:
 Take a leeward highway bus (which doesn’t have a schedule or designated stops).
Get off in Peters Hope (the equivalent to Kitsilano, aka a general region)
Head up the hill after the shack (a roadside shack is pretty common).
It’s the peach house at the end of the second gap (gap= side street, every other house is peach)

We managed to get only one gap away from the house before calling for directions, the mother came outside and directed us through the neighbour’s yard to her place safe and sound! I can’t imagine delivering the mail around here!

Also I have been astounded by the steepness of the roads around here, basically heading straight down a mountain slope! On many an occasion I have had to stop myself from making the very Canadian statement “this road must be killer in the winter”! Because of course with no snow or freezing temperatures, the winter looks very much like the summer around here.