Well I thought I had better add some to my blog or I will get out of Med school and have no recollection of what happened.....other than studying. Well lets see what has been going on. I drive to school everyday because I am a spoiled American and I refuse to take the bus. I took it once with my old landlady (before I moved into a nicer place) along with Sam and Joseph. We only went to the grocery store and back but that was enough for me. The buses are actually 12 seater vans that have no schedule or anyway that I can figure out where they are going or when they are going of if they are going. So nope not for me.

The school is located in a temporary place while they finish a new school a few blocks from where I live. ( you can check it out our beach location on Google Earth it is the southern most tip of the Island of St Lucia across from the Hewanorra Int'nl Airport at Anse Sable (Sandy Beach) in the town of Vieux Forte ) But I don't care if they ever finish it because I bet we have the most beautiful view of any school on earth. It is in an old beach resort and so we are right on the water and I can look out of the school and see Moule-a-Chique which is a little peninsula with the light house on it and Maria Islands the other direction. So if things go according to plan we will be in our new school by December. But knowing how things go on the Island it will probably be years before it is finished. They moved the school to the southern part of the Island last year along with another med school. The government wants an educational campus area of the country and eventually move the Capitol from Castries to Vieux Forte. I don't ever see that happening because there is nothing here. Well at least from my point of view. We do have one KFC restaurant and two little grocery stores and a couple of gas stations. Then there is "downtown" Vieux Forte which I am terrified to drive in. The streets are super narrow and they have these unbelievably deep rain water ditches that are often 2 feet deep and if you get your tire in one tough for you. Half the roads are one way but everyone drives both ways usually anyway. If I need to go into the town I always make Zaheer drive me. He works for the school and has been a huge help to me. He found my car for me and my apartment. He helps us with everything.

I have been trying to walk on the beach almost every day lately and it is so beautiful and relaxing and fun to watch all of the wind surfers that are always there. People swim out to the larger of the Maria Islands but I think I would drown or be eaten by a shark. So I won't try it.
They don't call it swimming here they call it taking a sea bath. I have had only one sea bath since I have been here so I decided I have to take more or I will get back to the states between semesters and still be a pasty white women. I stick out like sore thumb here as it is. Zaheer and Boy (Gabriel another guy who helps at the school sometimes) told me the other day that the word around town among the men is that they all want to know who the "sexy white woman is". OH BROTHER!!!!!!!! I was so embarrassed when they told me that I decided I was not leaving the apartment ever again. They think it is hilarious. I am so self conscious when ever I go out. Now all they do is tease me.

I have not learned how to cook St Lucian yet but this weekend a bunch of us are having Zaheer teach us how to cook some native things like fried breadfruit balls and things I can't pronounce. The native language is something called Patois which is a French creole language
and some other native dialects mixed in. I cannot understand a word they say other than Bonjour. So I will make another post and tell you all how the cooking went.