A preview of our current Adventure!
Kwajalein is a tiny three and a half mile long island out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, right on the equator between Hawaii and Australia. It is a very neat place to live (VERY HOT!). This island is crack to the photo oportunity seekers. Colby has been out here for about five years now, he came out when he started eighth grade and is now graduating highschool (as am I) on a tiny rock! I was out here during some elementary school years, then I moved, and now I'm back for my senior year, and boy do I love it! It's a small community, the graduating class is about seventeen kids (most of our classes throughout the day only have about nine kids in them), so there tends to be a bit of a small town feeling with everyone knowing everyone, which can be a blessing and a curse! The weekends are filled with family cookouts and beach time, and there is always room on the beach to go sit out and soak up the sun (unless the whole island decides to play baggo, which happens sometimes). We only ride bikes here and everything is within walking distance. The locals (the Marshallese) are very kind people. Kwajalein does a decent job integrating the Marshallese culture into community activities, which allows the whole lot (non locals and locals) to hang out and get to know each other's cultural differences. Overall, this island
is a good place for families (there's nothing to worry about so kids and parents have a great deal of freedom from eachother), it's a great place to get a tan, and it's a TROPICAL ISLAND. Who wouldn't want to live on one of those?! Colby and I are excited to take our next step into life as college go-ers, but we both know that we are going to miss our little island home very much! So be prepared to get many updates and pictures of our Adventure on Kwajalein! (It is way too neat of a place to pass up ranting on a blog about!) *Spell checked by Colby:)
