Day 1 of official Orientation

Welcome Orientation....7:30 am, breakfast at the Student Union!  Our morning was consumed by One-Stop, also known as, getting all your stuff done and ready for Island Living!  We got our student ID's, Brayton got his Ross email set up, we finalized and deposited money into our 'new' island bank account, paid for our laundry card, visited the Health Center and I got some time to go into school and view some things!  Our orientation group went on our second grocery shopping adventure, at the local IGA.  There is nothing more difficult then grocery shopping and loading all 22 people and there groceries, onto a 22 person bus!  We were successful though and able to get many things!  Many of the things we had read about the island made it seem like there was nothing 'normal' here, but it really isn't that bad!  There are some things that are more expensive than home, but for the most part, its the same old!  After grocery shopping we visited TGA, which is like a local Home Depot with all sorts of great stuff!  We split a bowl set with Meri, but did not buy anything else!  (Although, the flat screen TV's were nice!!!)

For our evening dinner out, we went to the Copper Chimney.  It is an Indian Restaurant and I was nervous about the food, but everything was amazing!  I had a chicken dish with fresh spinach and Brayton had a chicken dish with veggies and a cashew sauce.  We also had something called Cigar Rolls as an appetizer...they were a rolled up chicken breast, stuffed with cheese and deep-fried....oh my gosh good!!!!!!!!!!  After dinner we headed to what is known as The Strip.  It is a line of bars on the Caribbean side of the beach.  We all went to Elvis's and were able to hang out with many other students!  We finally met Rob and Stephanie (a couple we have been facebooking with) and also Kate and Trevor (another couple here).  Brayton was excited to have some guys to mingle with and play baggo with (he left his shirt on this time=)) and us girls had a great time dancing and chatting!  We also experience our first St. Kitts downpour.  It was beautiful one minute, and the next it was pouring rain and wind blowing!  They warned us it would happen that way!!  Morning came too fast on Tuesday though!!!!