The "Faces of Strangers: #15" Story

Sara

It was an ordinary day.  Sara is telling us about her locks which she now has had for 4 years.  Told us that the locals don't like when people call them "dread locks", since it sounds so derogatory.  They would rather have them called just "locks".  Sara is our waitress this morning at the Sint Maarten Yacht Club on the island of Sint Maarten/St. Martin which is in the Caribbean.  Young, slender girl in her late 20s would be my guess.  I first asked her where she was from and she asked me to guess.  I naturally guessed Holland, since the side of the island where the club is located is on the Dutch side.  "No, try again," she said.  Carol guessed she was probably from Australia because of her accent, but that also was wrong.  She told us what should have been the obvious answer, England.  Grew up around the water.  Lived on a boat with her mother and father from the age of 3 until the age of 11.  Mom and dad home schooled her until she entered secondary school on the French side of the island for her final four years of schooling.  She still lives on the boat with her dad and comes to work at the Yacht Club by dinghy.  Pretty neat!!  Not sure what her life is going to hold in the near future when her dad pulls up his anchor for the last time and returns to England.  Time will tell for Sara.  Waved Good Bye to her as we left, knowing we may never get to talk with her again.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.