Happy Belated Thanksgiving everyone! I had to study for an anatomy quiz last night, so I will actually be having a potluck dinner with some friends tonight instead. So my Thanksgiving has yet to come :)
As much as everyone was talking about Thanksgiving this year (which seemed like it was more than usual for whatever reason), it seemed like not many people were actually thankful for much. I just kept seeing complaints that people "had" to do stuff they didn't want to do, or they weren't able to do whatever they wanted. Seriously, buck up. Try being thankful that you are able to get an education or that you are able to spend every day on a gorgeous island. Or maybe just thankful that you get to try new things, like making your first Thanksgiving dinner in a toaster oven. I'm not real sentimental, but I actually recognize the amazing things in my life every day (more than I say out loud). It just really gets to me that people spend more time complaining than realizing that their life is not that bad.
On another note, I'll be coming home soon! My plane leaves on December 19th, but I don't get back to Michigan until December 20th (I had to have an overnight layover in Miami both ways) and then I'll be home until January 3rd. I'm a little nervous about coming home because I'm really getting used to wearing very lightweight clothes and going back to Michigan means I'll be wearing about 10 extra pounds of clothes, haha! I don't think I'll be able to leave the couch because my clothes will feel so heavy. Also, I've lost about 15 pounds since I've been here (yay!) and I'm going to say that a good chunk of that is because there's no fast food here (there's a Subway, but I haven't eaten there...it's SUPER expensive). And now that I know that I'm going home, I've been craving McDonald's fries like no other. I'm very excited for it, but I might just gain back those 15 pounds over the 2 weeks I'll be home...
I also really want to go to the Detroit Zoo when I get home. I hear there have been some awesome changes since this summer. I never got to see the finished lion exhibit before I left, so I do want to see that (even though the lions probably won't be out), and then we are also getting two orphaned Grizzly Bear cubs! Our polar bear from Denver went back recently too :( so he is back home in his new habitat.
More grades! I got a B on my nutrition exam (WAY better than I thought I would do...that one was tough) and an A on my microanatomy exam (only 3 questions wrong!). I just took an anatomy quiz and I think that went really well too (maybe only 1 question wrong?). Next up are final exams and I definitely need to get my ass in gear because all of them are cumulative except for one.
Tonight after dinner, I'm going to try to get some of my friends to go out with me. I haven't gone out in like, 2 weekends so I really need to go dancing :) We might go to Bamboo, which is almost like a nightclub, or maybe it's what they call a nightclub in St. Kitts lol. Saturday, a few friends and I are going to Caribelle Batik to get some Christmas presents or just fun presents for Katie :) We will also be going to Port Zante, which has all of the tourist shops. They have some really cool stuff and again, I'll probably be looking for Christmas presents. Check out the link for Caribelle Batik if you get a chance, they make some awesome stuff right there in the shop. It's all handmade batik, which is a wax dyeing process.
Saturday night: my semester is hosting a beer pong tournament...yes, a drinking tournament. Something I never thought I'd be a part of at an institution of higher education, but I also didn't think I'd go to a place where I could see vervet monkeys outside of my classes. I'm really bad at beer pong but one of my friends wants to play and his wife is out of town, so we are partners now. We'll see how that works out. Being bad at beer pong when your entire class is watching you=not my idea of fun. But it will be over quickly :)
I wish I had some more exciting stuff to write, but I don't. I've been studying like my life depends on it, which seems like what I say every time I post. It's about to get worse though, with finals coming up. So I wouldn't expect my next post until December 16th at the earliest lol. Wish me luck!
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