SIM Card

Today I had asked my friend Marc if he could go downtown with me to help me get my SIM card replaced for my phone. As I was walking around the construction site, where I thought he was, I saw one of my students, Kervens, who will be a senior this year. He was standing on the ground level while someone was lowering buckets of sand to him. As I shook his hand, he pointed at the bucket and said that, "This one is for you, Mr. Doug." I asked him where I was going with it and he pointed toward a room about fifty feet away. As we entered the room, I asked him where I should pour it. There was a guy sitting there sifting the sand to be used for mixing in with some cement. He pointed at the guy and told me to dump it on his head. I laughed but couldn't do it. It might have been funny, but I had to be nice and pour it on the pile next to him.

After I worked a little (very little), I found Marc and we headed to the Digicel store (Digicel is the main cell phone carrier here). I had a Digicel SIM card from last year, but apparently I somehow broke it while I was in the states. I was trying to duplicate it so I would have a copy, and think I ruined it. I knew I could just get another one, but wanted Marc to go with to translate for me so I could get a new card, but keep my same phone number. Fortunately, it only cost 120 goudes (3 USD)! I was not only happy about the price, but very much so about getting to keep my same phone number. We were in and out in about 10 minutes!