Hurricane Tomas

This weekend was fairly event filled! On Saturday, the weather it was cloudy and rainy and the wind got stronger and stronger as the day went one all due to Hurricane Tomas. We missed the eye of the storm but we got a decent amount of rain and it was very windy out which lasted all night and finally ended Sunday mid-morning. Power went out on campus twice and my power at my apartment went out twice as well. Definitely added some spice to a weekend that was already stressful as we were all studying for our second exam of the semester which was today. I feel like I did pretty well on my exam so we will see in a few days when they send our scores out to us. We have the day off on Wednesday as it is Dominica's Independence Day. With it being post-mini and having Wednesday off, my friends and I have some fun stuff planned for the next few days. Tomorrow afternoon we are going back to Pagua Bay for drinks and dinner and then Wednesday some of us are going to Red Rock to hang out at the beach and have dinner there. I am really excited for the tasty food and just to be able to relax for a bit. I will take pictures and post them later this week (hopefully!)
I am glad to be done with my second exam of the semester and can't believe I will be home in 7 weeks! All of a sudden, it's November and I have less than 50 days until I go home for Christmas...crazy how time flies!!

Love and miss you all!!

Pagua Bay

So last night, I went to Pagua Bay with some friends as it was two of their birthdays. Pagua Bay is a nice restaurant past the airport here that has really great food so it was nice to get away and eat some good food and just have a good time with some friends! I had a butterscotch martini and an apple martini and then had some fried calamari for an appetizer. My meal was a filet mignon served with mashed potatoes and it was delicious!! For dessert I had a strawberry chocolate swirl cheesecake homemade by the woman who runs the restaurant. It was all so delicious! We had a great time getting away from school for a bit and enjoying each others company. Today was filled with studying and tomorrow I will be doing more of the same. UGA looks like they are finally getting themselves under control as they won today against Vanderbilt. Georgia State also won which is awesome! That's all for now...enjoy the pictures from last night below!!






These next photos are when I bought a guava and tried it a few weeks ago. It was pretty good but you could definitely tell it was early season because the seeds, which are supposed to be edible, we still really hard and if I had tried to chew them, I would have probably broken a tooth! But what I could eat of it was really good and I need to remember to buy another one soon as they are probably more ripe by now.







Love and miss you all!!!

Update!

So, we just had our first mini of the semester last Monday. I was really worried about how I would do in pharmacology but surprisingly I ended up getting my highest grade in that class which was a real confidence boost especially since it was only 4 points from being an A! My other grades were pretty good as well...definitely a lot better than first mini last semester. Between that and hanging out with some new awesome friends, I have noticed less headaches as I am not nearly as stressed out as I was last semester. Classes since the mini have been going fine so hopefully this next mini won't be bad either. Tomorrow, I am going out with some friends as it is two of their birthdays. We are going to Pagua Bay for dinner which will be nice...they have filet mignon on the menu so I plan on getting that and I'm sure it will be amazingly good! That's about all I have for now...I don't have any new pictures to post but I will try and remember to bring my camera tomorrow and take some pictures and post them this weekend. Love you all!!

Jess

Update!

So, it has been quite a while since I have updated. Things were really busy towards the end of July and throughout August because we had three weeks of exams which required a lot of study time. Luckily, I made it through that period fine and ended the semester with pretty good grades...1 A, 4 B's, and a C. After that, I can home for about 2 weeks which was incredible! I got to see a bunch of people, enjoy some great food, have a bachelorette night for Tita, and just relax and enjoy being home. I have since come back to the island and began my 3rd semester. We have our first Mini of the semester coming up on Monday so I am trying to prepare for that as I don't want to get off on the wrong foot with grades this semester.

Oranges are back in season here which is awesome as I can now get fresh orange juice at the shacks every day which is SO much better than the stuff you get at home. I am going to have to invest in a juicer when I get back to the states because I am not going to be able to convert back to drinking orange juice from a carton! I also bought some guavas which were not quite ripe yet but were still decent as well as a sugar apple which I haven't eaten yet but will probably do so soon and post a picture of it as it is a very strange looking fruit.

That is about all for now. Love you all and I will try to update this more often!!

Red Rock

This past Sunday a big group of us went to Red Rock for the day. It's a beach about 25 minutes from here on the other side of the island with a hotel and restaurant on site. We had an awesome time and the beach and had some awesome food. For lunch I had a garlic shrimp burrito with a drink that was guava juice and Bacardi limon (delicious!!!). Then for dinner, I had a filet mignon served on a bed of mashed potatoes with a shitake mushroom sauce then a slice of key lime pie for dessert! The filet was delicious--perfectly cooked and soooo tender! I was going to take a picture of it but I was too excited that I didn't get one! It was nice to get away for a day before things get crazy at the end of the semester. We have 2.5 weeks of class left then a week with 3 practicals, a mini the following monday, and three days of finals the next week. It's going to be crazy and I will be so glad when it is over and I can head home for two weeks! Enjoy the pictures below!!

Love you all!!! Home in 38 days!!!

Mango

So, I bought some mangoes the other day and decided to have one today. It was pretty good, but I think I will wait a few more days to eat the other one to let it get just a bit softer. Enjoy the pictures!

Update

So, it has been a while since my last post. Since then, I have taken my first big exam as well as a neuroscience and anatomy practical. The exam didn't go as well as I hoped but I have since been studying like crazy hoping that the next one, which is in two weeks, goes much better! My neuroscience practical went well, I got an A on that, and my anatomy practical went pretty well I think...I won't get that grade back until Monday or Tuesday. The weather here has been quite warm lately and, even though it is supposed to be the rainy season, it seems to get cloudy a lot but it doesn't actually rain. Friday night, some friends and I went out for dinner and drinks after our anatomy practical. Also on Friday night, a tropical disturbance came over the island so that night it was really windy and poured all night! Saturday it was cloudy and windy all day and then Saturday night it rained again on and off for a few hours. I sat out on my patio for a few minutes last night just enjoying the rain...it was wonderful! Here are some pictures of an iguana that I noticed outside my apartment the other day as I was taking a study break! Enjoy!






Love and miss you all!! Can't wait to be stateside in 2 months!!