Where in the world is Rachel?

St. Lucia has 2 prominent mountains jutting out of the sea called the Pitons, Petit Piton and Gros Piton, and half of us volunteers just conquered the larger! I'm still not sure how my quads didn't explode on the 8 million stone steps up or how my knees didn't give out on the 8 million back down. We all felt like champions, but our legs were jello for the next 2 days. Totally worth it though.

This weekend we also had a beach picnic with all of the volunteers and their host families, and played in the surf & sand like children all day long. Then in the evening, we hit up the local karaoke night where friends of mine graced the audience with a riveting duet of Aladdin's "A Whole New World." Complete with motions and off-pitch high notes of course.