Newlyweds Lost In Grenada: 1st Week Over & White Coat Ceremony

Well, our 1st week of class is over and boy has it been wild! Randy & Betsy left on Tuesday morning. They had a wonderful time while they were here and are already talking about coming back before we leave! We were able to show them around the island and we took them to several local restaurants...and surprisingly all of our food we had while they were here was very good! We really enjoyed having them here (and if anyone else would like to come visit we are open to visitors!) but they left at a good time.

We had to hit the books running when classes started on Monday! We know we have only had one week but we have been studying so much! Our daily schedule is something like this...7am wake up and shower, 8am study, 12 lunch, 1-5pm lecture, 6pm dinner, and study till bed at 11-12! We are hoping our bodies will get used to this new schedule and this much studying! Lecture is difficult because we have to keep concentration for the whole 4 hours but we are really enjoying everything we are studying!

Tonight we had our White Coat Ceremony! Which is kinda our initiation into medical school! The ceremony was really nice...much nicer than we expected! The new Prime Minister of Grenada was there and addressed our class (all 400 of us). The Master of Ceremonies, Dr. Randy Becker, gave a wonderful speech that truly seemed to be from the heart. He was a 2000 graduate of SGU so he has been in our shoes and knows how we feel! His message was not to let anyone or anything stand in the way of your dream. The Keynote Speaker was Dr. William Andereck who is from Tennessee! This gave us a little feeling of home! He is from Memphis, did his undergrad at Vandy and med school at UT in Memphis...a fellow UT Alumni (how cool is that)! Dr. Andereck now practices in California. His message was about the White Coat, what is means and what is represents! When we got our white coat they called out our name and hometown...and when on stage they put our coats on us. We think the school video recorded the whole ceremony...we are going to try to track down a copy of it...to bring home to show everyone! After the ceremony the university held a reception in our honor. Luckily, the weather was perfect (unlike the rest of the weekend which was rainy and stormy)! The sun was setting and there was a nice cool breeze! There was good food, drinks, and a steel drum band! Everything tonight was really nice!

Here are a few pictures!

These are all our books, WOW!!