I'm crawling out from under my studying rock a few days after mini III
that I took just this past Thursday. This home stretch here at Ross
is certainly unique. Before the mini, I had a practical in Histology
and Anatomy. I did reasonably well in both of those, but my mini
scores I don't find out until the 21st of August, also when I find out
my scores from the final that I take this Wednesday--and then that's
if for the semester!
Becky and I had an interesting night last night. Apparently, we have
fallen in with a crowd, so we went to one of the local night spots
last night, StaBox cafe. For the second time since we got here, we
had a drink of American beer. They were selling Coors Light cans. We
had some of those, and the first one was, well, ambrosia. Once we got
past the first one, though, the reality of it being Coors Light hit.
But, for that perfect bit of time while we were enjoying the first
one, it was really nice.
The group we've fallen in with is a really nice, interesting group.
There is a Canadian retired military officer and chiropractor.
Another is a self-described redneck who just wants to be able to drive
a tractor with power shift. One of the females has a soft spot in her
heart for the island dogs. All of us, or our spouses, are runners,
which is probably why we all got together the first time.
We've started venturing further from our apartment now. I've got some
pictures up on my picasa site, http://picasaweb.google.com
with some pictures of some of our wanderings. All over this area of
the island there are ruins of sugar refineries from who knows how long
ago, and there is also a lot of left over wreckage from Hurricane
David that came through in 1979. It's one of the things that I don't
understand why it is still around, until I step back and remember that
it is probably too expensive to scrap the stuff because there simply
isn't any capability to recycle metal on the island. I don't think
there's the capacity in the energy market here to support a foundry or
anything that energy intensive.
With the semester coming to a close, Becky and I have been talking
about what we want to do over the break. We've decided that we're not
going to come back to the US very often. It is simply too difficult
to travel from here to the US in one day by plane, and we also have
the dogs to worry about. So, we're going to try to experience a lot
of the island diversions here. We're planning on doing the Boiling
Lake hike. We're going to do a lot of training for the Chicago
Marathon in October. There will also be swimming and snorkeling, and
anything else we can find.
I hope everyone is doing well at home!
-j
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