The second general meeting will be in Classroom 2B at 1:15 pm. FREE LUNCH WITH BE SERVED. Please do come & join us for this very important gathering….If you missed the RSO video skit at the SGA culture, there will be a quick replay for your viewing pleasure

All members of RSO are welcomed to attend the new spouses social at Le Flambeau at PBH on Thursday, Sept 11, 2008 at 1:30 pm.  Come out and meet the new spouses and mingle with the familiar ones as well.  Food and beverages will be served along side the fun games and activities we have planned for everyone.  See you there.

Welcome.  We are so excited to meet and help you.  The new spouses orientation meeting will be held on Tuesday, Sept 9th, 2008 at 10:00 am in Classroom 3 (it is directly behind the daycare/prep school). If you have children and they will not be in school, they are welcomed to come with you. You may want to bring some activities or books along to help make their time more interesting.  Lunch will be served for new spouses and their children following the meeting.  See you there.

The next RSO board meeting is this Wednesday, August 6th at 1 pm at the Subway Deck.  Please consider joining the board for next semester.  All the help we can provide for newcomers and for each other is what makes this group so great.  Here are th positions to consider:

- Meeting Conductor/Go to person (Chika may volunteer for this position)

- e-mail and website and advertising/bulletin board/publishing (Kathleen will volunteer for this position)

-activity planner and treasurer

-welcoming committee and sponsorship

-fundraising and speghetti dinner chair(s)

Sorry for the late post.  For this week, on Monday July 21, 2008 we will be going to Scott’s Head and Champaign Bay to snorkel.  The cost of the trip is just the cost of the transport.  Please e-mail rossrsvp@gmail.com for details and to reserve your spot on the bus.  Don’t forget to bring your snorkling gear.

Bake Sale is July 22nd during lunch.  We try and be there around 11:30 AM and we stay until 1:00 PM.  I need someone that is willing to work this bake sale and we also need people that are willing to bake.  Last bake sale each person that volunteered made 38.23 EC each.  So it’s worth it!  If your interested please email Alia at alia_nichole@yahoo.com
 
There’s a boat trip with Cabrits on Thursday July 24th!  Please RSVP for this trip by July 22nd at 3:00 PM. 
 
Pirates Beach will be on July 26th.  
 
If you have any questions about any of the trips you can email the RSVP email address.  Also RSVP for any of the trips by emailing rossrsvp@gmail.com.
We hope you will all join us.

We need everyone’s support with RSO’s spaghetti dinner.  The proceeds from this dinner will go to Lamb’s Feast.  Tickets are $20 EC for vegetarian sauce and $25 EC for meat sauce.  Dinner includes spaghetti, sides, a drink and dessert.  Please come out and join us for dinner.

The second RSO meeting for the semester will be on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 1:00 pm on the Subway deck.  See you all there.

 The first bake sale of the semester will be on Thursday, May 29, 2008.  Meet at the top of the shacks stairs to drop off your baked goods.  We will be selling them from 11:30 am until 1:00 pm.  All prices are donations to RSO, and you will receive a portion of the sales back to your RSO account.  This means if you would like to donate to the RSO bake sale, whatever money we make, 75% will go back to you to use with RSO.  This includes dues, payment for trips, etc.  If you would like to bake for the sale, please RSVP to rossrsvp@gmail.com by Wednesday, May 28.

The trip to Sari-Sari Falls and Aba Wavine Cyrine will be this Friday, May 23, 2008.  This trip is one of the most challenging hikes available on Dominica. Sari-Sari Falls requires a climb up through a narrow hole (just large enough for one man) between large boulders to reach the falls and pool. This 30 minute hike is moderate in difficulty level. Aba Wavine Cyrique is a short climb down a steep embankment during which your primary support is a large thick rope and your own strength. Climbing down 3 different ropes and a rope ladder to reach the beach is much more challenging after having hiked the hour to and from Sari-Sari falls. This is NOT a hike for those who are afraid of heights or are not physically fit or capable of the precipitous climb please do not attend. The spectacular reward for those brave enough to complete the journey is the waterfall which lands on the beach and in in the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Paid members are welcome to bring their spouse/significant other (Friday is research day) for the members only price, which will be determined based upon the number of RSVPs received. Please RSVP for this trip no later than Wednesday at midnight by e-mailing rossspousesorg@gmail.com.

After weeks of seeing the site broken, I decided to go in and fix it myself.  My husband and I put our heads together and solved the problem pretty quickly - thankfully, I still have admin privileges on the site.  There was an issue with the loading time of the page - the pictures that had been in the right hand nav were taking too long to load, causing everything in the right sidebar to time out and put up a MySQL server error message.  The only way to make the page work was to remove the pictures from the navigation (and put them back on the photos page), allowing the nav bar to load in the time allotted on the server.  The site is, once again, fully functional!

-Courtney