Yay! It's finally here. I get to go home for break. I thought this day would never come. I am physically sitting in the departure lobby at the Dominica airport. I can almost smell America. No wait, thats airplane exhaust. This semester was particularly difficult, even with Phil here to support me. I am still waiting for my final grades, so I don't want to jinx it, but I am pretty sure I am a fourth semester when I get back to the island. It will be my last semester here in Dominica and I am thrilled beyond words. This journey has been very trying for me, more emotionally than academically but it was still a big struggle. I think the promise of getting off the island for good is going to give me renewed energy to get through the next semester. There is NO WAY I am repeating 4th!!As usual, getting to the airport this morning was like Disneyland's Jungle Cruise on wheels. There were exotic animals jumping out at us and palm leaves slapping our faces through the open windows. I kept expecting someone to get on the loud speaker with "...and to our left are natives bathing in the river." Our car's name was "Shadow Warrior" and our driver seemed like he could have driven the hour and a half trip blindfolded. He checked his phone messages more than he checked the road. In true Dominica fashion, we had to stop twice so passengers could throw up. Thankfully, I am here safe and tomorrow I will be home! If I miss Dominica, I'll go to Disneyland, but I'll get churros and mickey mouse soft pretzels instead of chicken and ground provisions.
2 comments:
Oh wow ! I need to get more of my friends to read the blogs you Ross kids are writing and to comment more. If you only knew how those of us studying in the States long to return home to throw up on the way from the airport, to the exotic animals jumping at us and the natives bathing naked in the river roasting the animals on the riverbank for our breakfast lunch and dinner. Although I will miss fearing terrorist attacks and mass murders on campuses.
That's fair, but I think my point is that I am just very unfamiliar in my surroundings which adds another level of stress to this medschool thing. I just want to go home and be somewhere familiar for some time.
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