Irene did not hit Miami, and we woke up to blue skies and slight winds! Our trip through the airport was easy, and we only waited at the gate about an hour-hour and a half...We were very fortunate on our flight and had a window seat and also sat with a very nice gentleman who was from St. Kitts. Come to find out, he works for the government of St Kitts at the shipping place..He gave us his number and told us to get in touch if we ever needed anything! I felt like that was a blessing right off! (Esp because if you get put in prison, you need two locals to bail you out =)) Flying over the islands is an amazing site. You can see each island, the pale blue waters that surround them and the unique landscape of each. The gentleman sitting with us was also able to tell us what each island was, so we were able to visualize it all! It was definitely the coolest flight I have ever been on! Seeing St Kitts from the sky was amazing too, it looked just like all the pictures said it would (pictures coming soon!). We landed and got off the plane in the parking lot, there are no 'gates' at an airport this small!! The air conditioner inside the building didn't work (or maybe didn't exist) so waiting in line to get through immigration was veryyyyyyy hot, but was a good time to begin meeting people that were also heading to Ross, or one of the few med schools on St Kitts/Nevis. We made it through with no problems, and waiting impatiently for our bags...of which only one made it! Unfortunately the one bag we got had no clothes, no shampoo, no soap, nothing really...Fortunately, it did have our sheets, a couple bath towels and a couple beach towels so we can at least take a water shower...if you can call showering without soap a shower...American Airlines said that our luggage, and half the people that were on our planes luggage, was still in Miami because the plane was too full and we should get them tomorrow on the one flight that comes in from Miami a day...That is great for us (if it actually comes) but sucks for the people on that flight whose luggage gets left behind because ours took up their space! I guess that is just what happens when you have a plane full of students moving to an island, and bringing 8 suitcases!!! None the less, we found our orientation leader and made it to campus.
The ride here was amazing, but adjusting to riding/driving on the opposite side of the road may be difficult!! The views are spectacular with fields and mountains and houses and junk and ocean and everything you would expect to find on the outskirts of a touristy Caribbean island! Campus was amazing as well! The Prep school I will be teaching at is about 50 feet from our dorm building! When we walked into our room we were dumbfounded at the amazing view we had...We pulled the blinds of our 7 windows only to discover we had a corner double apartment with clear ocean view from each window! It is soo amazing! Being who we are, we instantly began rearranging! We decided to make the first room with double doors a mock living room/study room, and the smaller room with the closet a bedroom...So, all the desks in one room, all the dressers in the other! Turns out it fits perfect and looks great! I think we should be able to even have friends over for 'studying' and have lots of space! We did not have much unpacking to do with only one bag so we rejoined our orientation group and we all headed over to Frigate Bay for dinner at Mr. X's Shiggidty Shack. We sat at tables, on the beach, 10 feet from the ocean and watched the sun set... it was great! We drank Skol (not the chew, its a local beer here!) and Carib (another local beer) and ate great food! It was so great to begin interacting with and getting to know some of the other students. Everyone seems friendly and open and excited about the new life we all just took on!
We have a New Jersey phone in our apartment here, so if anyone wants to call, it is free to you as long as you have a plan that allows you to call a NJ number, so if you wanna chat - I can get you that number and we can call you from it! There may be voicemail on it, but we do not know how to check it yet, so don't leave a message! You can always email us too, or text/email (type in our email address instead of a phone number) and we can chat that way. We should have our skype and/or facetime up and running soon too!
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