We're back in Grenada

Well, we had a great trip home but unfortunately we had to come back to the island life, not to mention back to the life of a student (it has been difficult to readjust to school)! We enjoyed our short two week trip home. I did get to attend a bridal shower and a wedding while we were home. We are missing lots and I mean lots of events like these this summer while we are here...of course Derek is glad we are missing all these weddings but I however am not. Derek celebrated his 25th birthday while we were home, that was nice that it fell during our break! Here is a partially eaten picture of his birthday cake I made for him! Before it was cut into, it looked like a baseball with an Atlanta Braves' A on it.

Happy Memorial Day! We really wish we could be at home to help ring in the unofficial start to summer with everyone (with grills, hamburgers, strawberries, and all the other fun things associated with summer). Unfortunately, today was not a holiday at all for us...we had class as usual...all day long from 9 this morning to 8 tonight. Obviously, they don't celebrate Memorial Day here...we actually had one of our professors (obviously a local Grenadian) tell us to "suck it up" today because we had to go to class (and no one was even complaining), I thought that was quite disrespectful!!

The start to this semester has been a little rough. It has seemed like everyday since we have been back we have had to deal with some "typical Grenadian" crap...like trying to get paperwork done, or trying to get sugar at the grocery store (we have heard Grenada is having a sugar shortage because of the dry season), also not to mention our air conditioning in our room has not been working properly since we have been back. Our room on average has been 80 degrees and the weather outside is very hot and very dry, it looks like we are living in a desert everything is brown and dead. Also, Derek has been sick the past few days (he barely got out of bed all day Saturday). He went to the clinic today, he has tonsillitis. They gave him a prescription for some antibiotics. Here is a picture of what he was given at the pharmacy.

This is an interesting way to package the medicine but I guess it is a lot more efficient than those little plastic bottles we get at home. The seven day supply of antibiotics was EC$16.80 (about $6.72 US), pretty cheap!

We hope you are all doing well! Leave us some comments, we would love to hear from you!