I have a lot of posts I am working on, full of fun things and adventures....
But this is an emergency! Sometimes I am just so pathetic I can't contain it.
I have about 60ish bug bites. Just on my legs! Mostly around my ankles. The number is continually growing!
I am just so fed up with the bites. They itch like crazy and at times I can't sleep at night because they itch!
Last night I took a scientific approach; I circled all my existing bites. To see how many I would get while I was asleep.
I think the number was about 5 new ones, just last night while I was sleeping.
You can see a bunch, just from this view!
You would think that it was bed bugs because of the clusters, but those are actually new ones up by my knee pit. Accrued those over the past few days.
I am beginning to wonder if I'm eating the bugs and they are living under my skin and biting me from the inside out. Because I can't see them.
I have the windows open in the day, but at night they are closed. There are also screens on all of the windows! But they are finding a way to slip in.
I picked up some of this. Everyone here swears by it. It's mosquito repellent. But I am not convinced these are mosquito bites. I think it is something else.
I did research on bed bugs. And I don't think I found evidence, the supposed evidence I might have found, I think is a result of my paranoia. I washed my sheets, moved the bed away from walls, and now I am deep cleaning the apartment.
As for now, I am looking up bug bite remedies and bug repellent stuff that will work for all kinds of bugs.
Ross ended up skipping a lot of Orientation. Upper term students said it was a waste and 1st term students that went said it was really boring, so we just got the highlight reel from those who did go. :) I think it worked out alright.
One day we went to Grand Anse beach, which is really just beautiful! Soft sand and warm water. It was nice to relax before all the craziness starts. I kinda feel like it is a ticking time bomb. It makes me crazy to make every minute count, which I think is good.
The nice thing about Grand Anse is that you can catch a SGU bus there and back. It is super convenient and a short trip. The bus drops you off at the SGU Grand Anse campus. And to be honest, I'm not exactly sure what it is. They have some run-downish looking dorms that are still used but besides that the ex-campus is used to park the SGU buses. It is surrounded by beach resorts that cost literally hundreds of dollars a night. It is prime real estate, but I'm not complaining because it is nice to just walk a minute from the bus and straight onto the beach!
Off in the distance you can kind of make out a harbor and you can't quite see the town of St. George's, there on the harbor.
Turn 180 degrees and this is the other view!
Gorgeous right?!
So, this is really like the first post of the blog.
Ross's books are ... lost? late? destroyed? I'm not sure but the shipment the school ordered for the first term students is not here yet, which means he has needed the computer a lot to do all his homework and reading and studying.
I have a lot of stories to catch up on!
Also, and oddly enough, the really nice camera we got, takes such high quality photos that I need to re-work the settings so the pictures are a size that is upload-able.
Let's start with Ross's first day of school!
Monday, August 20th 2012
Classic "First Day of School" pic by our front door.
Aww!
So he was off to school and later that night was his white coat ceremony! My friend Caitlin (next door neighbor, and her husband is 1st term too) headed over to campus at about 2:30pm. Yes, 2:30! To get in line to make sure we had a spot in the auditorium. We heard horror stories from other SOs (SO= Significant Other) about how they didn't get seats and they had to watch a crappy broadcast of it in another building. I'm not super big on ceremony stuff but I was determined to get a seat.
Caitlin and I felt super ridiculous wandering around campus all dressed up. An A.V. guy in the building was nice enough to bring us a chair and Caitlin and I sorta hung around until more people started showing up. Then we waited in line more.
It was kinda touch and go for a little bit, we were worried we might get mauled by some crazy moms who flew half way around the world to see their child put on a coat. But we stood our ground and got seats! The auditorium was relatively small, especially considering the estimates for students is Ross's class have been around
720 students!
There definitely wasn't space for all the parents and SOs and family members that wanted to be in there. :( It was a nice ceremony and the Keynote speaker (Catherine DeAngelis, MD, MPH) was really funny and cracking jokes. She was really insightful too and gave much advice and words of wisdom.
My favorite quote was, "You cannot always cure but you can always care." She talked about how as a doctor you have an incredible duty to care for your patients and not be bought off, particularly by pharmaceutical companies.
Then of course was the White Coat Ceremony!
Caitlin was nice enough to record the ceremony so you can all feel like you were there for... at least the important part!
After Caitlin and Sean and Ross and I headed over to the reception where they had hors de oeuvres (yeah I just wanted to use that word) that were really delicious. They had cajun chicken in mango salsa stuff, breadfruit balls, samosas, fresh fruit, tuna sandwiches, pizza, all sorts of food. And also drinks, water, local sodas and juices, and Fanta and Coke.
Looking much better than that morning! :)
It was a fun day overall! But maybe not so much for Ross when he pulled out all his anatomy packets that cover the lecture slides --for half of the term. More fun to come!
Here is a new blog, dedicated to the adventures of the Petersen Family, beginning in Grenada, West Indies or, as some may generally think of it... Somewhere Beyond the Sea!
Here is Bobby Darin to welcome you to the blog!
