What's old is still new...

Welcome back everyone. After a beautiful long summer break I have, along with many of my classmates returned to "the rock" Grenada. Our homcoming, however, was not what many of us expected. Those of us scheduled to live in "Super dorm 6" were sent an e-mail last week informing us that the True Blue (think on-campus) campus would not currently be able to accommodate us, and we were to report to Grand Anse (think old-school off campus housing) campus.

As far as we can tell, there is no set time frame for our return to the main campus, and best estimates of completion of our dorm range anywhere from 1 to 4 weeks.


As for the current housing here on Grand Anse, between my roommate and I we have 1 set of keys. But fortunately we can unlock the front door (True Blue automatically lock when closed). My roomate was kind enough to let me borrow his bed sheets (mine being still in storage) when I arrived because the mattresses are not something you would want to lay upon without some covering.




Electricity appears to work, although there are no US style outlets, only British. Lighting seems to be touch-and-go. The overhead lights worked last night, to my roommates amazement; apparently when he arrived 2 days ago, they did not function.

When I walked in and turned on the bathroom light, his jaw dropped as he asked "how'd you do that?"



But we do have an air-conditioner.







As for the city, this is apparently, Carnival and there was a party at the stadium at about 3am last night. We could not hear or see it, but were simply told about the wild events. As such, today is a national holiday and I'm praying I'll be able to find an open grocery store or someplace to grab a bite to eat. I'd hate to sustain myself on my Snyder's Buffalo-hot-wing pretzel bites for the whole day.

Soon, I'll head into the True Blue Campus to try to find out some more information about housing, registration and the like. More postings to follow