The kids have been back in school for about a week now. It’s going pretty well. Some of their school books I had ordered are still in the States so we went shopping for textbooks at the teachers store in Grenada. Very impressive. I had gotten Tristan some geography textbooks and a topography book on how to read map/contour lines in a great store in Nevis. He loved them. The store here was even more impressive. I bought Spanish textbooks for both of them, writing and grammar for Tessa, Caribbean history, more geography and more reading books, (though we are never short of those!!). The books are very engaging, lots of colors and pictures. Tristan and Tessa prefer them over the Calvert home school books. I have to say, they do a really good job with the textbooks in the Caribbean. I think they may still be under the United Kingdom as far as schooling influences, and it’s very impressive! Grenada also has a 98% literacy rate according to the taxi drivers here. They certainly do read alot as there are several bookstores in town.
Alegria under sail
Mary, Tessa and I at Monday Night Mas Carnival Grenada
Steve’s birthday
Fred and Kathy
NASA
Heads of Agency International Space Station
The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan, on March 11, 2010, to review ISS cooperation. From the left are Dr. Keiji Tachikawa, President of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator; Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency; Anatoly N. Permirov, Head of the Russian Space Agency; and, Dr. Steve MacLean, President of the Canadian Space Agency. With the assembly of the ISS nearing completion and the capability to support a full-time crew of six established, they noted the outstanding opportunities now offered by the ISS for on-orbit research and for discovery including the operation and management of the world's largest international space complex. The heads of agency reaffirmed the importance of full exploitation of the station's scientific, engineering, utilization, and education potential. They noted that there are no identified technical constraints to continuing ISS operations beyond the current planning horizon, and that the partnership is currently working to certify on-orbit elements through 2028. They emphasized their common intent to undertake the necessary procedures within their respective governments to reach consensus later this year on the continuation of the ISS to the next decade. Image Credit: JAXA
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