Sunday Feb. 20

So not having internet access is making it hard for me to remember to post these blogs. I forget when I am on campus and then the minute I walk into my dorm room, it dawns on me.....i forgot!

Well Friday was a pretty uneventful day. I got up early and went running at around 6:30am. It was so nice and cool (cool in the Grenadian sense of the word!). I ran toward the ship channel where the tourist ship anchors and lets the tourists off the boat for a couple hours. Then we had lab and class the rest of the day. My anatomy quiz went very well unless I made some stupid error which is possible, but I think I did pretty good. That night Shanti, Kris, Kevin, Lucas, Layla, and I went to eat at this place called Amigos. Amigos serves Mexican food on Friday and Saturday nights. So I was really excited. I shared chicken fajitas with Shanti and it was so much food. Actually I think that my stomach has shrunk because normally I think that I could have eaten the entire thing, but half was more than enough and really too much for me. It tasted good though, definetly no comparison to Rosa's but it temporarily filled my mexican food void. The rest of the night I spent trying to study and get caught up on some things.

Saturday morning I woke up needing to use the rest room very bad, I guess Amigos did not agree with me to well. It still tasted good. I then had to catch the bus to go help the Grenadian relief fund. Two ladies that teach at the med school picked us up and drove us out to this town called Dunbar. The community was very nice but as all the houses in Grenada show signs of hurricane damage. We arrived at the site where they were concreting the outsides of the house. There were several people already helping and so we decided to go work on another house down the road. This house had lost its roof in the hurricane and they had just broke out the top border of concrete with hammers so that they could fasten the roof back on. The broken concrete was everywhere! We had several buckets and so we would fill the buckets up and then lower them over the side of the two story house to the bottom floor and dump it onto this porch type area. Later on they are going to lay concrete over the broken pieces. This took a while but we had a lot of help from the local kids. It was great they are hard workers and we knocked the house out in like 2-2.5 hours. The remainder of the morning the head worker guy drove us around the community in the back of his pickup showing us and the kids the water filtration plant and the spring. It was very interesting and many of the kids had never seen were their water was coming from so they found it very interesting. I had a really good time, hanging out with the locals. It kinda brings you down off your pedestol of veterinary school and medical school.
Check out my new posted pictures(under Grenada relief fund):
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/hjmvet/my_photos
We stopped at a bakery on the way back and bought some bread rolls and a cup of icecream. The icecream was soooooooo good and cold!! To die for!
Got back to campus just in time to make it to the Physiology review. Went to that then went back to dorm room to eat and study. I did not feel well by the end of the night and so I went to bed.
Woke up this morning and we had a mandatory meeting about financial aid. Church at 11am and then I am going to spend the remainder of the day studying. I still don't feel 100% but it could be anything. Soccer is at 5pm, that gives me a goal to study till then!
Have a great rest of the weekend!
Love you guys!! Those of you in Midland eat a Rosa's tortilla or fajita for me!