We're driving again.

We're glad to have a car again. It's made the trips to and from school much easier for all of us. This was especially good for Ethan coming home in the afternoons. It also allows me to come home and work a little bit between lunch and the time that Logan gets out of school. The walk with the boys is about 25 or 30 minutes as it's close to a mile and a half. It's great exercise though & I miss that, but I'm glad for the extra time to do other chores.

We have a 1992 Nissan Bluebird. Never heard of it? We hadn't either until we got here. It's actually pretty nice as cars go here among med students and even the locals. It was interesting to learn to drive on the left side of the road & I still remind myself of that when I'm behind the wheel. The driver sits on the right side of the car in most vehicles here. I'll post a picture. And yes, I realize it's parked on the wrong side of the street. I'm learning to drive like a Dominican. Look out when I get back to the US! Oh, and they DO drive on the sidewalks pretty often.

All that being said, we are driving less this week. When living in the Caribbean, don't let your gas gauge drop below half a tank. We haven't been able to find gas in either station here in the Portsmouth area for several days. We still have a little, but we're conserving until we can fill up. The walks have been nice and friends have offered rides in some instances. We're doing okay with it. We hope we can fill the gas tank this week though so Ethan doesn't have to walk home in the afternoon without a nap. Otherwise, we'll be walking everywhere again.

Err. Grrrr

I'm getting errors again and not getting to post what I want to post. Hopefully I can figure out why it's giving me this error.

At home in the Caribbean

We wanted to share a little view of what we call "home" for now. We have a small 2 bedroom apartment in Glanvillia. I've already posted the pictures. I thought my error from the last couple of weeks was because I was posting too much at a time.

Home sweet home.

Above is the front of our apartment building. We live on the 3rd floor. Our apartment is only the portion of the front that is visible in the picture.

Above is the view from the balcony off of our master bedroom.

Below is a full view of the kitchen, looking back from the dining area.

Home sweet home.

This is looking from our dining area to the kitchen. It's just a partial view of the kitchen showing our "pantry". The fresh fruit and vegetables are wonderful! (The boys were ready to head out to the swimming pool when I took these pictures. They had changed to the swim trunks but kept on the same shirts they had been wearing. They didn't care that they no longer matched. They were just interested in getting to the swimming pool!)Looking from the kitchen back to the dining area.
Looking from the hallway to the living room and dining area.

Home sweet home.

Above is looking down the hall from just outside the master bedroom and bathroom toward the living room. Below is the boys' bedroom. They have actually taken turns sleeping in it since they can't seem to settle down enough to share one bed. The other one sleeps on the couch.


Above is the bathroom. Below is the master bedroom.

A lot to learn

Okay, I'm not happy with the last post, but I'm learning how to blog. The photos all ended up reversed in order from what I wanted. I also pulled a wrong picture and missed getting one that I wanted. So I did the delete but didn't go back for the other one. Maybe I'll try it with this post.

I have to say that one thing I enjoyed most about the White Coat Ceremony was just seeing the American Flag. We'd only been out of the US for just over 2 weeks when this happened, but we were still happy to see a bit of our homeland. :-)

White Coat Ceremony

Lyndle's White Coat Ceremony was Back on January 15th. I have wanted to get something posted about it since that time. However, with learning how to post to this blog, working, learning my way around here and having the internet working when I had time to post, it has taken me 3 weeks longer to do this than I wanted it to.

Lyndle has worked hard to get here & I want to get this posted. The White Coat Ceremony is done for 1st semester students here at Ross. There is a big ceremony for the new med students with Dominican dignitaries present. There are speakers there to give words of wisdom and praise and encouragement to the new med students. All of the new students file to the front where an M.D. helps them to put on their white coats. Then they receive a Ross University pin.

Logan and I watched it on the mediasite. It's such a big ceremony, especially since there are somewhere around 450 or more 1st semester students here now. There is not a good place for families, especially with small children, to be able to watch it in person. It was great that we could watch it online and Ethan could take his nap. We were excited when we got to see Lyndle in the ceremony. We're proud of you, Lyndle! We're all here supporting him the best that we can as he studies hard and works to achieve a dream he's had for many years.