Another Week

It's Saturday again...crazy how fast time seems to fly here! On Monday, we start week 11 of classes. I have been here for almost 3 months and I truly cannot believe it. TIme really goes by ridiculously fast here which makes being away from home a little easier as it hardly seems like I have really been gone for that amount of time. Hopefully the rest of my semesters on the island go by as fast so I can be back in the states for good!
I am currently studying in a building called the barn which is right next to where I live and trying not to freeze to death in here. You would never believe you were on a tropical island being in here, I literally have jeans and a sweatshirt on and am completely frozen! I may have to invest in a Snuggie when I am home to bring down here! Haha
I went out with some friends last night after we were done doing some studying in the anatomy lab and had the other local Caribbean beer that they have on the island called Carib. For someone who doesn't drink beer, it was decent and only cost 7EC which is a little more than $2.50US...can't beat that.

Thats all for now...Love and miss you all!!! Enjoy this picture taken about a month or so ago of the waves...

Pictures

Here are the pictures I tried to put up yesterday! Enjoy

Hey

Hello All!!!

Sorry it has been so long but I have been super busy with all my studying. Well, I just took my second test this past Monday and did really well...I got 3 A's and a B. I did not do so well in anatomy but I still have a practical, another test, and a final to bring up my scores so I am not too worried about it, I just need to make sure I study it a little more efficiently. I went to the beach on Tuesday as we didn't have a long day of classes and it was great just to be able to relax a little and not have tons of stuff to study.

Today, a few friends and I took the bus down to Roseau, the capital. It was pretty cool there. There was a cruise ship that was docked so there were tourists everywhere! They all assumed we were on the cruise ship as well so we kept getting bombarded by people wanting to take us on island tours. We did a little souvenir shopping and then went and looked around at the market. There wasn't a ton of stuff there since it was later in the day but it was still pretty cool to see. While we were there, we stopped by this guys truck that was filled with coconuts. He chopped the tops off of them right in front of you and then gave you a straw so you could drink the coconut water. I decided to get one since I have never had coconut water before and it was interesting. I was surprised because it did not at all taste like coconut. It was different and probably not something I'd drink again but it was fun to try it! We wandered around Roseau for a bit longer and went to Astaphan's which is a department store/grocery store and then IGA which is a big grocery store. It was so crazy seeing a store that big after being at school for 2.5 months; all of the stores here are so small!! Another thing that was a little weird was when we were souvenir shopping; all of the prices that were quoted were in US dollars and my friend even got change back in USD. Though we did get a few deals because we paid in EC dollars and not USD so that was nice.

In the next 5 weeks, I have another Mini, a histology practical, an anatomy lab practical, a DPS practical, and a final so I will be in study mode so I can do really well on all of them! I come home in 39 days and I am so excited! I already have a list of foods I want to eat and things I want to do!

That's all for now! I was going to post some pictures but they don't seem to want to upload tonight so I will try and post them tomorrow!

Love and miss you all and I can't wait to be home in 39 days!!!!!

Sailboats

Another week has passed...it is crazy how fast this semester is going by; I have my next big test a week from Monday and go back to the states for vacation in like 7 weeks! I am studying on the deck on campus that overlooks the ocean again and am just trying to make sure I don't fall behind in anything. Nothing exciting has happened around here really so there is not much to add..

I added new pictures to my Picasa site and will put a few here as well. The other day there were around 2 dozen sailboats in the bay where I live for some reason so I decided to take some pictures of them at sunset.

Love and miss everyone!!!

More cows

Hello everyone!

Sorry it has been a while, I have been busy studying and haven't had much time to write plus the internet at my apartment has been having some issues lately that were supposed to get fixed a few days ago... We are currently learning about embryology in one of my classes and there are a lot of details that go along with it so I have spending a lot of time studying that stuff.

So I wasn't planning on coming home during my first break but have since changed my mind and have booked myself a flight and will be back April 22-May 7 and I am so excited!!

Not much else to say but I did add some new pictures to my Picasa album (click on the link below) and will post a few here of the cows outside my apartment the other day including a little baby one!

Enjoy and I love and miss you all!!

Test scores and Volcanoes...

So, on Monday, I took my first test in med school and overall I did pretty well. The only trouble I had was in histology so I need to work super hard to bring up that grade. We had a lab practical in histology that I did well in so that helped and hopefully I will understand this new stuff better than the previous material and can therefore do much better on the second mini that is in three weeks. This weekend will be mostly spent studying anatomy so I can do well on the practical we have on Tuesday.

In other news, yesterday was a very interesting day. I woke up and went outside to walk to class and there was a layer of dust over everything at my apartment complex. I thought it may have been from construction or wind or something but then I noticed it everywhere I went. Turns out that a volcano on the island of Montserrat had a partial collapse of its dome and ash was sent 9 miles into the air. Everything here is covered in a layer of ash and yesterday was a very gray, hazy day. Today, the sun is out and its a gorgeous day though there still seems to be some ash falling.

The waves today are pretty big and it makes for a nice backdrop while studying. Sorry, I don't have any pictures to post today as I don't have my camera on me but I will try to post some tomorrow.

Love and miss you all!

Hello all!

It is the weekend before the mini so I have been and will be doing a lot of studying until Monday. I am not too freaked out about the test yet though which is a little scary! Lol. I think it is because I am very sure of the things I do know and the things I still need a little reinforcement on so I am just studying my weak areas and hoping I can get them down before Monday!

For those of you that do not have my mailing address and want to send me things ;) , here it is:

Jessica Quade
Ross University School of Medicine
P.O. Box 266
Roseau
Commonwealth of Dominica
West Indies

Enjoy the pictures below! The first is the view from my study spot and the other is the mango tree that is right by where I study with unripe mangoes on it.








Love and miss you all!!! Wish me luck for Monday!!!

Jess