Most of the time I live in isolation, writing while locked in my room–albeit a very nice room–at the St George's University (SGU) Club in L'Anse aux Epines.L'Anse aux Epines (pronounced "Lans-Apeen") is on the south coast, a neighbourhood of expensive homes, restaurants and hotels. The club used to be a hotel until SGU bought it and converted it to private short-term housing for its visiting professors, guest lecturers and new faculty. Unlike me, most of them stay a week or two.
I've been here eight weeks. My social life has consisted of going to mass at Blessed Sacrament RC Church in Grand Anse, and to yoga classes at the Spice Harmony Yoga Studio in Calivigny.My new parish, Blessed Sacrament, is literally on Grand Anse beach. I attend the Sunday morning mass, when the pews are usually filled with Grenadians. We sing Caribbean hymns and sit for sometimes two hours for mass.Every third Sunday the parish priest, Vicar General Fr Clifton Harris, engages in extensive dialogue with the children and teens of the parish.
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