Have I got a story for you. What do you do when the Dash 8 prop plane that arrives from Tortola en route to Antigua has three more passengers than the airline anticipated, limiting their passenger pickup in St. Kitts? You take one for the team, let the others be responsible for your luggage (!), and spend the next eight hours chilling out and waiting for the next flight leaving for Antigua. You buy a bottle of wine, cook a kick-ass dinner, and enjoy an afternoon on the island where nobody is expecting you to be. And so that's what I and two other PCVs from my island did. We waited out the booking mistake by Liat and went through airport security for the second time that day for a 9:40PM departure time. But we arrived in Antigua safely, and didn't miss anything – our COS training was scheduled to begin at 9:00 the following morning. And since we had missed out on the majority of the evening's opportunities to socialize and catch up on all the news, a few of us hung out until the bar closed at 12:30 and relaxed after a long long day.
The first day went by rapidly, with some training in facts about what happens to PCVs after their term of service is ended, as well as how best to summarize the long list of things we accomplished into resumé sized "power statements." And I'll elaborate further on interesting things (when they actually happen) when I have more time.
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