We're starting a hash

When we get back to Canada we are starting a Hash House Harriers club. If you do not know what a hash is it’s  a run/walk through forest, roads and beaches. You can find Hash House Harriers all over the world! Ours will be for people in Brighton and the Bay of Quinte area (BBQ). This will also include Cobourg, Colborne, Northumberland County.

 

Its loads of fun because you can see our beautiful forest and beaches and have people to talk to. There will be a hash every Saturday or if it rains Sunday. For holidays like Christmas, Easter, Halloween there would a special hash. If it’s a full moon there might be a moon light hash.

 

Why we are starting it- It is a chance to get to know people in your community while you are exercising. When we hash here we meet people from England, USA, Canada, Trinidad, and France. It would be a neat experience for friends and family who are visiting to go for a walk/run in the area they are visiting.

 

My job will be to set the trails. In hash terms I will be the “hare”. I will also be a BOP! It stands for Back of the Pack. My job will be to have the people at the back get through and make sure no one gets lost. It is one of the most important jobs! There will be no littering allowed, if I see someone littering I will make them pick up their garbage. Hashers are environmentally friendly!

 

For each hash there will be a $2 entry fee. It helps offset costs for signs, garbage disposal, entry/group fees for using parks and to pay live entertainment.  

 

To start hashing you have to sign in. This is important because if you get lost we can search for you. Before a hash starts the Hash Master tells everyone about that week’s hash, welcome new comers and looks for people with new shoes! In Grenada if you have new shoes you have to drink beer out of your shoes! The BBQ Hash House Harriers are just going to make you step in some mucky mud to break them in!

 

The trails will be marked with shredded paper- sometimes with sidewalk chalk in towns. When you see the markers you are supposed to call back "on on" to let people know they are headed the right way. In the winter we will use coffee grounds. There will be false trails marked with an X. A circle tells you there is more than 1 way you can go.

 

There will be a BBQ at the end of the hash. Money raised will go to a different charity each week.

 

The first hash will be August 8th  at 3:00 pm and will start at our house. All ages can hash.

 

There is more info on our website www.bbqhhh.blogspot.ca be sure to check it out. Also like us on Facebook (BBQ Hash House Harriers) that way you will get updates on where the hash will be.

Cricket

On Friday we went to the Cricket Stadium. It took us about 10 minutes to drive down to the stadium and we had to park on a steep hill because the roads were closed.

We asked a policeman where to get the tickets. He said to go around the building. It took us about 10 minutes to walk around the building because where we came in was on the exact opposite side!

When we got the tickets and we went through security. We again had to walk the full length back to climb up to the second story. Then we walked back again to find our seats! When we were walking we saw that there other ways to get up that we missed.

We went to find our seats and there were four British people sitting in them. So dad told them politely to go to their own seats. After that we started to watch the game.

About three hours in me and dad went to get some food because I was hungry. We got French fries and chicken and a Coke. We went back and we ate the food.

When we left the West Indies was ahead of England. I was not feeling well so we left.

I thought the game was interesting but I didn't understand it. I now know how the points are scored. I would not go to another cricket game, but I am glad I saw one.

Hash #874

Last week we went to the Harrier Hash in Samaritan, St. Mark's. Samaritan is on the Caribbean side of the island and it takes about an hour to drive up to it from our house. The drive is along windy and steep roads so you have to drive slowly. It is really only about 30 kms away but it takes a long time to get there.

When we got there, there were lots of cars and it was hard finding a parking spot. Dad told us to get out of the car and sign in. (At a Hash there is someone who is sitting on a chair with a clipboard and a cash box. You sign in and pay $2.00 a person. Signing in means they know if you are still out on the trail or back!). Dad found us and the hash started.

The start was discombobulated. It started with false trails (which means you could go the wrong way). There was lots of "on backs" which means you went the wrong way. The pack initially went the right way but got confused and came back! It took a few minutes but we were all finally headed up the mountain.

We climbed up the mountain for about half an hour. There was lots of cocoa, nutmeg and bananas on this hash. It was pretty. At middle of the hill there was an option to do a short walk or a long walk. We chose.....long walk, of course. Mommy was tired already, but she was also doing a lot of stopping and taking pictures.

My brother I didn't want to keep waiting for her so we went ahead on our own. This was fun because we could go at a quicker pace. The downside was we didn't have any water or the phone,

For this weeks hash Aiden and I will carry one litre of water and a phone and we are going to hash on our own! This week the Hash is at La Sagesse my second favourite beach. It starts at four I am excited to go.

A donkey way up in the mountains
 

My dad catching up to us (Aiden orange shirt)
 

Cocoa shells

For real a porche!!

Birthday Boy

This Friday is my birthday. I am going to be 11 years old. I am going to be the last one in my family to have a birthday in Grenada.

I am not going to school on my birthday, because we don't learn anything at school the week before school is over. In Grenada "March Break" is for two weeks instead of one and it is an Easter Holiday instead of a March Break. Our break starts the Monday after my aunt arrives!

For my birthday we are going to go to eat at the Dodgy Dock. After dinner we are going to go listen to music at Le Phare Bleu.

My birthday will be different than back home because I will not get any presents. We don't do presents here because they would be hard to bring home, and because it is expensive to give gifts.

I am looking forward to my birthday even though I am not getting presents. An awesome present is that 2 days after my birthday my aunt Ceilidh arrives!

Grenada Hash House Harriers

This weeks hash was at Fontenoy just outside of the city of St. George. We knew we had arrived when we saw a lot of people and cars lined up parked along the road. We had to park about half a kilometer away.

When we got to the start there were kids playing soccer on the beach. They were really good. The goals were three sticks tied together, but small no higher than my knee. They would be great a profession football because they use such little nets and they can score, imagine if they had real soccer nets!

The starting of the hash is crowded. Most of the people were standing on the road. There were at least 200 people doing the hash this week!

Most of the people with walking sticks get near the start. This older guy always beats us. There is lots of young people, younger than Aiden and I. Both Grenadian and "American" or "European".

This house was in the forest about a 1/4 of the way up and there were no other houses near it. It has an ocean blue colour of paint.

 

This is Grand Mal Bay. There is oil storage facility just in front of the tanker.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We were worried we were going to have to climb up this cliff but....

We ended up looking down and over to it!!

The mountains are narrow because you can see Grand Mal Bay on one side and Grand Anse beach and St. George on the other side.

Going down was hard, they ropes to help but some of them snapped! Strong men had to hold the end to keep them tight. My dad helped. It was really slippery, everyone but my dad fell. Aiden and I were sliding on our bums down. It was like tobogganing on dirt. We had lots of fun and we got dirty!
















On the way down we took a funny picture. These are vines hanging off a tree. They are dead. They felt tough, you could probably use it for rope.

On our way down on the hill we saw the cutest little baby goat!! We also a one week old baby, but the goat was cuter!

At the end of the hash there was a beautiful sunset.