I had my head and neck practical Friday afternoon and I can say with confidence that I did very well. Even though I haven't received an official grade yet, after looking at the answers, I know I didn't get more than five questions wrong. So, worst case scenario, I got an 87.5% I have mixed emotions about this grade. I'm extremely happy with this grade because it's a good grade. I'm also relieved because I'm not satisfied with how I performed on Mini 1 anatomy. Mini 1 anatomy was only worth 10% and it covered the hardest material (head and neck) of the semester. Therefore, my strategy was to focus on the other classes that were worth more. So, I wasn't surprised that I didn't receive a stellar grade on Mini 1 anatomy. With this in mind, I was determined to kill this practical to make up for Mini 1. So, I watched prosector videos over and over again all last week. I spent lots of time on Wikipedia (a great medical school resource by the way!) memorizing muscles, nerves, arteries, muscle origins and insertions, etc. Also, Thursday night, I spent about six hours in the lab going over the material over and over again. So, while I'm super happy that I did well on this practical, I feel that I could have done better considering my preparation. Looking over the answers, I saw that if I had just looked a little closer or thought about the question a little more, I could have gotten those five questions right. A 100% was not out of reach. Still, I'm NOT complaining and I'm VERY satisfied with my grade.
PS: I really recommend watching the prosector videos from this website along with Dr. K's. I feel that by using both resources in conjunction, you get a much more complete picture of what you need to know from each dissection. Just my two cents...
In other news, Mike, Gabe and I went to Roseau last week. We hired Alexis' taxi service to drive us to Roseau and back. Our first stop was Astaphans. Gabe needed to buy an office chair and Mike and I needed to pick up a few things. Gabe found a chair but they were charging an astronomical ~$900EC which is about $337.00US - for a chair! Needless to say, Gabe just ordered one online and had his parents send it over via Amerijet.
The next stop was IGA. IGA, like Astaphans, is a grocery store. However, I much prefer to shop at IGA than Astaphans because they have more US brands and items. They also have frozen items that I haven't been able to find in other stores. For example, they have Hot Pockets, frozen lasagnas, Breyer's and Ben and Jerry's ice cream, Cool Whip, blueberry and strawberry Eggo waffles, frozen vegetables, frozen pies, MorningStar Farm's sausages, pizzas, and much more. We also found cream cheese, cheeses, and yogurts that hadn't expired! (This is actually a big deal.) And, you can buy cold cuts at the deli. We bought a pound of colby cheese and a pound of honey ham for ~$44.oo. This is slightly cheaper than what Tomatoes charges for a pound of ham and a pound of cheese. However, I think Tomatoes offers better quality ham and cheese. Still, IGA's ham and cheese was good and I wouldn't hesitate to buy more the next time I go. You can also buy cakes and cookies. We bought a few other things like Coke, bread, and cereal. The point is that IGA is the closest thing I've found to a grocery store resembling the ones you find in the US. IGA is smaller and offers less variety but, in my opinion, it's the best grocery option in Dominica.
The next stop after shopping at IGA was a coffee shop called Rituals Coffee House. Rituals is the closest thing Dominica has to a Starbucks. And, it's actually not bad at all! They have all kinds of cookies, donuts, and cheesecakes. They have hot and cold sandwiches and they make all sorts of smoothies/shakes. I ordered the cookies and cream cheesecake. Even though it looked like a Cheesecake Factory cheesecake, it didn't quite taste like one. Still, I thought it was the best cheesecake I've found in Dominica so far.
Finally, we stopped at KFC before heading home. Every time we go to Roseau, we pick up some KFC without fail. The KFC here is just like the KFCs back home. They have popcorn chicken, chicken nuggets, biscuits, fries, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, parfaits, etc. The only things they never seem to have are potato wedges and macaroni and cheese. Regardless, the KFC here tastes just like the ones found in the States and they pretty much offer the same items.
Below you'll find the pictures I took that day. I wish I would have taken more but I've gotten a little shy with the camera lately. It just feels a little awkward taking pictures inside stores. People look at me funny. So, this was the best I could do.
A few days ago, a reader left a comment asking for more narratives of our daily lives here in Dominica. So, here it goes!
Mike and I headed to the library today at around 12:00 pm. It's been raining cats and dogs here for what seems like weeks now and today was no different. I took a few pictures so you can see how wet and gloomy Dominica was today.
Every time we head to the main campus, Mike and I take the bridge over the Picard River (pictured below). We lovingly refer to this river as the "chocolate river." The river earned this pet name because every time it rains (which has been extremely frequent lately), the river gets turbulent and brown. Hence, chocolate river. What's even more awesome is that sometimes when we turn on our faucets or flush our toilets, brown water comes out.
I remember the first time I noticed this about the toilets. I had gone to the bathroom near the library and every stall I entered had toilet bowls filled with brown water. I remember making these faces of disgust and thinking that there were some dirty, dirty girls here at Ross that weren't flushing the toilets when they were done. Turns out, the blame is on Mother Nature and not on the girls at Ross. lol... oops.
Anyway, once we got to the library, we worked and worked until it was time to grab some Subway at around 5:00 pm. We picked up our subs and sat down to watch a few minutes of the the Dallas Cowboys vs. Arizona Cardinals game on T.V. Pictured below is the kitty that joined us for dinner. After we ate, we headed back to the library where we studied until 8:45 pm. Then, we took the 9:00 pm bus home and that's about it!
So, that was our day. Thrilling, isn't it? :)
Well, tomorrow is the start of a new and hectic week. My anatomy practical on the head and neck is this Friday so I have to put in loooooong hours at the lab this week. It's supposedly the hardest anatomy practical ever so I'm pretty stressed about it. However, I usually perform strongly on practicals if I put in the necessary time. So, we'll see how it goes.
Enjoy the pics below and I'll post again when I get some free time this week.
~ Melissa
PS: I've made it a point to take my camera with me everywhere I go. I'm trying to take a lot of pictures of anything and everything for the blog. So, on the way to Subway, I snapped a picture of a father and son playing on the swings. I also took a picture of some students playing volleyball and of the clouds hugging the mountains in the distance. That's all that happened in the distance between the library and Subway. I hope that by sharing these pictures, you can all feel a little more involved in our daily lives here. :)
Gabe's birthday was this past Saturday but we couldn't celebrate it because the Mini was fast approaching. So, last night, a large group of us went to Heaven's Best Restaurant to celebrate his belated birthday as well as our friend Oscar's birthday.
I can't rave enough about this place. The food was BY FAR the best food I've had since I've been in Dominica. I've been to a few restaurants (Tomatoes, Fort Young, Sunset Bay, Blue Bay, Portsmouth Beach Hotel) in Dominica since arriving in January and they've been very hit or miss. Since I don't like seafood, I always order a chicken dish. More often than not, I leave restaurants very disappointed after paying WAY too much for "eh" food. On the other hand, Gabe always orders "the catch of the day" at every restaurant and he always seems pretty satisfied with his choice. I suppose it makes sense that if there's one dish a Caribbean restaurant will get right, it's going to be seafood.
So, imagine my hesitation when I ordered the "Chicken Sensation" at Heaven's Best. Thankfully, I made a great choice because it was soooo good. Mike ordered the same thing. I suppose he enjoyed it as well because I've never seen him eat so fast. Gabe, as usual, ordered the "catch of the day" and had NO complaints. For drinks, Mike ordered a vanilla milkshake and Gabe had the sweet tea. Both were EXCELLENT. They also served baskets of bread that contained butter, white bread, and this delicious raisin bread. Since I'm a big soup person, I ordered the cream of asparagus soup as an appetizer. Just... wow. For desert, we all had the warm apple crisp with vanilla ice cream. Now, normally I don't sit here and write about everything we order at restaurants but I am SOOO impressed with this place that I feel the need to proclaim it to the world. The service was excellent as well. I left feeling so happy because I finally felt that I got what I paid for. Also, this restaurant is locally owned and it felt good to give them our business because they deserved it. I couldn't have asked for a better dining experience.
Furthermore, since it was Gabe's and Oscar's birthday, the owner brought out the apple crisps with candles and performed a little "dance" for the birthday boys. No, not that kind of dance - well, sort of. Just watch the clip below. She also gave them both a small gift. How sweet is that? I have never gone to a restaurant for my birthday and received a gift. The embarrassing happy birthday song, yes, but never a gift.
Plus, the restaurant is near Portsmouth so it took us about 10 minutes to get there by taxi. It's nice to know we don't have to drive all the way to Roseau to get decent (and in this case, AWESOME) food anymore. I know we'll be back soon.
I found this on a website after typing in "medical school sucks" into Google. You're probably wondering why I googled that. Well, I had one of those I-wonder-what-comes-out-if-I-type-"this"-into-Google moments. Anyway, I think this list is pretty funny and from what I've experienced thus far, a lot of it is so so true. Ah... the life of a med student! Enjoy!
101 Things You Wish You Knew Before Starting Medical School
If I had known what it was going to be like, I would never have done it.
You’ll study more than you ever have in your life.
Only half of your class will be in the top 50%. You have a 50% chance of being in the top half of your class. Get used to it now.
You don’t need to know anatomy before school starts. Or pathology. Or physiology.
Third year rotations will suck the life out you.
Several people from your class will have sex with each other. You might be one of the lucky participants.
You may discover early on that medicine isn’t for you.
You don’t have to be AOA or have impeccable board scores to match somewhere - only if you’re matching into radiology.
Your social life may suffer some.
Pelvic exams are teh suck.
You won’t be a medical student on the surgery service. You’ll be the retractor bitch.
Residents will probably ask you to retrieve some type of nourishment for them.
Most of your time on rotations will be wasted. Thrown away. Down the drain.
You’ll work with at least one attending physician who you’ll want to beat the shit out of.
You’ll work with at least three residents who you’ll want to beat the shit out of.
You’ll ask a stranger about the quality of their stools.
You’ll ask post-op patients if they’ve farted within the last 24 hours.
At some point during your stay, a stranger’s bodily fluids will most likely come into contact with
your exposed skin.
Somebody in your class will flunk out of medical school.
You’ll work 14 days straight without a single day off. Probably multiple times.
A student in your class will have sex with an attending or resident.
After the first two years are over, your summer breaks will no longer exist. Enjoy them as much as you can.
You’ll be sleep deprived.
There will be times on certain rotations where you won’t be allowed to eat.
You will be pimped.
You’ll wake up one day and ask yourself is this really what you want out of life.
You’ll party a lot during the first two years, but then that pretty much ends at the beginning of
your junior year.
You’ll probably change your specialty of choice at least 4 times.
You’ll spend a good deal of your time playing social worker.
You’ll learn that medical insurance reimbursement is a huge problem, particularly for primary care physicians.
Nurses will treat you badly, simply because you are a medical student.
There will be times when you’ll be ignored by your attending or resident.
You will develop a thick skin. If you fail to do this, you’ll cry often.
Public humiliation is very commonplace in medical training.
Surgeons are assholes. Take my word for it now.
OB/GYN residents are treated like shit, and that shit runs downhill. Be ready to pick it up and sleep with it.
It’s always the medical student’s fault.
Gunner is a derogatory word. It’s almost as bad as racial slurs.
You’ll look forward to the weekend, not so you can relax and have a good time but so you can catch up on studying for the week.
Your house might go uncleaned for two weeks during an intensive exam block.
As a medical student on rotations, you don’t matter. In fact, you get in the way and impede productivity.
There’s a fair chance that you will be physically struck by a nurse, resident, or attending physician. This may include slapped on the hand or kicked on the shin in order to instruct you to “move” or “get out of the way.”
Any really bad procedures will be done by you. The residents don’t want to do them, and you’re the low man on the totem pole. This includes rectal examinations and digital disimpactions.
You’ll be competing against the best of the best, the cream of the crop. This isn’t college where half of your classmates are idiots. Everybody in medical school is smart.
Don’t think that you own the world because you just got accepted into medical school. That kind of attitude will humble you faster than anything else.
If you’re in it for the money, there are much better, more efficient ways to make a living. Medicine is not one of them.
Anatomy sucks. All of the bone names sound the same. If there is anything at all that you’d rather do in life, do not go into medicine.
The competition doesn’t end after getting accepted to medical school. You’ll have to compete for class rank, awards, and residency. If you want to do a fellowship, you’ll have to compete for that too.
You’ll never look at weekends the same again.
VA hospitals suck. Most of them are old, but the medical records system is good.
Your fourth year in medical school will be like a vacation compared to the first three years. It’s a good thing too, because you’ll need one.
Somebody in your class will be known as the “highlighter whore.” Most often a female, she’ll carry around a backpack full of every highlighter color known to man. She’ll actually use them, too.
Rumors surrounding members of your class will spread faster than they did in high school.
You’ll meet a lot of cool people, many new friends, and maybe your husband or wife.
No matter how bad your medical school experience was at times, you’ll still be able to think about the good times. Kind of like how I am doing right now.
Your first class get-together will be the most memorable. Cherish those times.
Long after medical school is over, you’ll still keep in contact with the friends you made. I do nearly every day.
Gunners always sit in the front row. This rule never fails. However, not everyone who sits in the front row is a gunner.
There will be one person in your class who’s the coolest, most laid back person you’ve ever met. This guy will sit in the back row and throw paper airplanes during class, and then blow up with 260+ Step I’s after second year. True story.
At the beginning of first year, everyone will talk about how cool it’s going to be to help patients. At the end of third year, everybody will talk about how cool it’s going to be to make a lot of money.
Students who start medical school wanting to do primary care end up in dermatology. Those students who start medical school wanting to do dermatology end up in family medicine.
Telling local girls at the bar that you’re a medical student doesn’t mean shit. They’ve been hearing that for years. Be more unique.
The money isn’t really that good in medicine. Not if you look at it in terms of hours worked.
Don’t wear your white coat into the gas station, or any other business that has nothing to do with you wearing a white coat. You look like an ass, and people do make fun of you.
Don’t round on patients that aren’t yours. If you round on another student’s patients, that will spread around your class like fire after a 10 year drought. Your team will think you’re an idiot too.
If you are on a rotation with other students, don’t bring in journal articles to share with the team “on the fly” without letting the other students know. This makes you look like a gunner, and nobody likes a gunner. Do it once, and you might as well bring in a new topic daily. Rest assured that your fellow students will just to show you up.
If you piss off your intern, he or she can make your life hell.
If your intern pisses you off, you can make his or her life hell.
Don’t try to work during medical school. Live life and enjoy the first two years.Not participating in tons of ECs doesn’t hurt your chances for residency. Forget the weekend free clinic and play some Frisbee golf instead.
Don’t rent an apartment. If you can afford to, buy a small home instead. I saved $200 per month and had roughly $30,000 in equity by choosing to buy versus rent.
Your family members will ask you for medical advice, even after your first week of first year.
Many of your friends will go onto great jobs and fantastic lifestyles. You’ll be faced with 4 more years of debt and then at least 3 years of residency before you’ll see any real earning potential.
Pick a specialty based around what you like to do.
At least once during your 4 year stay, you’ll wonder if you should quit.
It’s amazing how fast time flies on your days off. It’s equally amazing at how slow the days are on a rotation you hate.
You’ll learn to be scared of asking for time off.
No matter what specialty you want to do, somebody on an unrelated rotation will hold it against you.
A great way to piss of attendings and residents are to tell them that you don’t plan to complete a residency.
Many of your rotations will require you to be the “vitals bitch.” On surgery, you’ll be the “retractor bitch.”
Sitting around in a group and talking about ethical issues involving patients is not fun.
If an attending or resident treats you badly, call them out on it. You can get away with far more than you think.
Going to class is generally a waste of time. Make your own schedule and enjoy the added free time.
Find new ways to study. The methods you used in college may or may not work. If something doesn’t work, adapt.
Hospitals smell bad.
Subjective evaluations are just that - subjective. They aren’t your end all, be all so don’t dwell on a poor evaluation. The person giving it was probably an asshole, anyway.
Some physicians will tell you it’s better than it really is. Take what you hear (both positive and negative) with a grain of salt.
90% of surgeons are assholes, and 63% of statistics are made up. The former falls in the lucky 37%.
The best time of your entire medical school career is between the times when you first get your acceptance letter and when you start school.
During the summer before medical school starts, do not attempt to study or read anything remotely related to medicine. Take this time to travel and do things for you.
The residents and faculty in OB/GYN will be some of the most malignant personalities you’ve ever come into contact with.
Vaginal deliveries are messy. So are c-sections. It’s just an all-around blood fest if you like that sort of thing.
Despite what the faculty tell you, you don’t need all of the fancy equipment that they suggest for you to buy. All you need is a stethoscope. The other equipment they say you “need” is standard in all clinic and hospital exam rooms. If it’s not standard, your training hospital and clinics suck.
If your school has a note taking service, it’s a good idea to pony up the cash for it. It saves time and gives you the option of not attending lecture.
Medicine is better than being a janitor, but there were times when I envied the people cleaning the hospital trash cans.
Avoid surgery like the plague.
See above and then apply it to OB/GYN as well.
The money is good in medicine, but it’s not all that great especially considering the amount of time that you’ll have to work.
One time an HIV+ patient ripped out his IV and then “slung” his blood at the staff in the room. Go, go infectious disease.
Read Med School Hell now, throughout medical school, and then after you’re done. Then come back and tell me how right I am.
Well, it's been four long weeks since I've posted. And the reason I'm posting today is because Mini 1 is officially over and done with! I took my exam at 8:00 AM yesterday and Mike took his at 1:00 PM. Four weeks from now, we take Mini 2. Ugh...
So far, I'm pretty disappointed with how 2nd semester is going for me. For one, it all started on the wrong foot. As it turns out, you have to buy your plane tickets way in advance if you want to get decent rates as well as decent departure dates. About 2 months into last semester, I sat down to search for a return flight for second semester. Ideally, I wanted to fly back to Dominica the Friday or Saturday before classes started. However, I searched everywhere (American Airlines, Expedia, AA to San Juan and then Liat to Dominica) and the only return flights I could find were for the Wednesday AFTER classes started. This would mean that I would miss three days of school. So, I spent HOURS with American Airlines, Liat, Expedia - you name it - and the best I could do was a return flight for Monday, September 8 (the first day of class). What a disaster that was! That Monday I flew from Miami to San Juan and then to St. Maarten via American Airlines. Then I jumped on a Liat flight from St. Maarten to St. Kitts (we landed there but I didn't get off the plane) to Antigua and then finally Dominica. I practically toured the whole Caribbean. So, I missed the first day of class and then the next day I had to register, take my refund check to the bank, put electricity, and do groceries. So, I also missed the second day of class. Yes, here in Dominica, doing all of those things takes an entire day. The point is - I got to the island late and by the time I had settled in and gotten everything ready to start 2nd semester, the first week of classes was over. That meant I had to watch and cram four week's worth of material into three weeks before Mini 1. And trust me on this, what you cover in one week in 2nd semester is even more astronomical than in 1st semester. Needless to say, the weeks leading up to the Mini were very stressful.
So, how did Mini 1 go? I have NO idea. I KNOW I knocked Physio out of the park. I spent a lot of time on it because it was worth the most along with Biochem. Mini 1 Physio and Bio are each worth 25% of our entire grade. Neuro, Histo, and Anatomy are worth 16%, 15%, and 10% respectively. Naturally, I focused on the classes that were worth the most. So, I think Physio went well. As for the other subjects, I feel "eh" about my performance and my grades can go either way. I can't say with confidence that I did really well on those subjects but I wouldn't say I bombed them either. That's usually how it goes for me with my grades here at Ross. I take the test and I never really know what to expect with my grades. I'll find out in a few days...
What else is new?
1) Well, the trio is down to a duet. Our third roommate moved out so it's just Michael and myself in our apartment. Mike and I are splitting the cost of the third room which means we're paying an exorbitant amount of rent this semester. One positive is that we're spending A LOT less money on electricity this semester than we did last semester. I don't know if it's because we're using less electricity or if the electric company is charging less. Either way, less money spent on electricity is always welcome to offset what we pay in rent. Mike and I are also undecided about where we'll live next semester. We don't want to bring in another roommate so our options are to either move or stay and pay what we're paying now. Chances are we'll stay because we love our apartment and we don't want to go through the headache of moving. Mike and I have A LOT of stuff and we can't fathom moving it all to then move again when we're done with Dominica. The less moving, the better. We'll keep you posted.
2) Moving to Dominica meant sacrificing a lot of what we love back home. We left our families, friends, and pets and moved to a country that resembles nothing of home. In Dominica, there are no malls or movie theaters. There is no such thing as a Denny's or Chili's or any other chain restaurants. There is no such thing as Wal-Mart or Best Buy. There is no such thing as Starbucks or Barnes and Noble. There is no such thing as a Burger King or McDonald's. (Dominica boasts ONE fast food restaurant - KFC. And when I say "one," I literally mean that there is ONE KFC in Dominica. To be fair, they do have Subway.)
The point is that we've given up a lot of our creature comforts to live here in Dominica. However, one thing we are not willing to give up is our college football! Watching TV here is quite the event. We get about 40 channels. Of those 40 channels, I'd say about 10 have some sort of religious programming on 24/7, about 5 are Dominica-related and the rest are an amalgamation of the same channels we get in the United States. Coupled with the limited amount of channels is the fact that our Cable comes from who knows where? I've turned on the TV and watched local news from New York and commercials from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. What?? That makes no sense. We have figured out that our cable comes from Northeastern United States. For example, if we turn on channel ABC on Sunday, Gabe and I get the NY Giants game instead of the Miami Dolphins game we want. Same thing happens with ESPN. If we turn on ESPN to watch the University of Miami game, instead we'll get a Notre Dame or Michigan University game. And then there are times that we turn the TV on to watch football and instead we get soccer or cricket matches or golf or whatever. So, you can see why three college-football-loving med students put their brains together to figure out how they were going to watch their games. Well, we found the solution: The Slingbox. Basically, you connect the Slingbox to your cable box and internet at home. Then, you download the Slingbox software and that allows you to watch your TV from home on your laptop anywhere in the world. Of course, there are cables and some configurations to be done but the setup is not very complicated. Also, it's cheap - sort of. The Slingbox is about US$180.00 but that's all you'll ever have to pay for the service. There are no monthly fees for using Slingbox. Mike bought a Slingbox over the break and it's currently connected to his mom's cable at home. I bought Gabe a Slingbox for his birthday and he has it connected at his parent's house. So, when Saturday roles around, we watch our UM Hurricanes game on Gabe's laptop and Mike watches his Florida Gators game on his laptop. To the right, you can see what the Slingbox and the software look like. The remote control that you see actually works like a real remote control. You can click on it and change the channels so that you can watch whatever you'd like. The only drawback I believe Slingbox has is that you're basically sharing a TV between your house and your laptop. For example, if someone at Mike's house changes the channel on the TV that the Slingbox is connected to, then whatever Mike is watching on his laptop will change to the channel that person put. Then, if Mike changes the channel back to what he was watching, the person at Mike's house will now see the channel Mike wants to watch. I know it's a little confusing. Below are two videos from YouTube that explain what Slingbox is and how it works. Hopefully that'll give you a better idea of what I'm talking about. Bottom line - the Slingbox really does work and I highly recommend it! Without it, we'd be three very sad med students...
3) I want to apologize for the lack of updates. When I first started this blog, I was writing all of the time. Everything was so new and there was so much to do and see. So, naturally, there was A LOT to write about. But, like everything else, the novelty of being here has worn off. We've settled into our routine - wake up, study, eat, study, eat, study, shower, go to sleep - and we've rarely strayed from it. For the most part, I alternate between studying at home and at the library. Outside of Gabe and Mike, the only time I communicate with other humans is when I'm in PBL or lab dissection. I don't even walk to Tina's or RUH to put electricity any more. I just call them and give them my credit card information. Sad, I know. So, all of this basically translates to "I don't have anything to write about!" Which brings me to my next point. I enjoy writing on this blog and I really, really want to keep it updated more often. I hate that I let weeks go by without writing anything. Yes, I'm busy but it doesn't take more than 20 minutes to write a post or upload a few pictures. So, I thought I would come up with an idea or two that would motivate me to write more often. Well, a picture is worth a thousand words, right? I've been thinking about making a weekly post with nothing but pictures. For example, every Tuesday, I'll upload a few pictures as part of a series. I could do a post on, say, "The Animals of Dominica" and I'll upload pictures of different animals that have crossed my path. I could also do "The Fruits of Dominica" or "The Flowers of Dominica" or "The Beaches of Dominica" or "The Food Stores of Dominica." I know this sounds so silly but I think it'll keep me motivated to update the blog regularly. Also, you'll be able to get a better view of Dominica and our lives here. So, what do you think? Any suggestions?? Is there anything you guys want to see or want me to write about? Well, I'm going to give this weekly "of Dominica" idea a shot and we'll see how it goes. I really, really want to write more often. So, leave a comment or give me an idea of something to write about. And if I start slacking on the updating again, don't be afraid to leave a berating comment!
Well, that's all the updating I can do for now. We're going to Roseau tomorrow to do some grocery shopping at IGA and Astaphans. I'll be sure to take a lot of pictures so that I can write a post about it. Also, check back every Tuesday for my "of Dominica" posts. And seriously, please tell me what you want to see or you're going to get a lot of photo series like "The Cars of Dominica" or "The Construction Workers of Dominica." (There's a ton of construction going on right across the street from where we live.)
