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So this is the St. George's University Campus, which is located on the southern tip of Grenada in the area called True Blue. It is surrounded by the ocean which makes for a magnificent view and walk around the campus. Currently Ryan and I are living in the married housing on campus. Sometimes I get starting to really miss home and havin huge shopping malls and such, but then I realize that most people who give their right arm to live a beautiful, carribean country. I do feel truly blessed to have this experience.

This is the building that Ryan and I currently live in. We are on the second level; so the little place attached to the top balcony. This is an example of the married housing buildings. Each building contains 8 private rooms. They are just studios so it makes for very close and comfy quaters to share with your spouse. Ryan and I are the Resident Assistants on campus for the married housing buildings. We work closely with the housing department on campus. It is a very sweet gig because it means we get free rent and a biweekly stipend. We love being the RAs.

So here is a little tour of our humble abode, when you first walk in the door you are immediately confronted with the kitchen and this is it, as you can see I did not do my dishes before this picture was taken. Shame on me. As you further into the room, probably about 5 steps you are soon greeted by our bed/"living room". As you might see Ryan and I attempted to decorate to make it feel like our own home. I would like to be congratulated for being a good wife for allowing Ryan to wallpaper our walls with a Star Wars comic book he found in his duffle back from his mission. Not every wife would do that.

Well, Here I am just a little over year since my last post on my blog. I honestly do not really understand why I stopped writing all of a suddenly and so short into my blog career. However, after a year of self exploration I think I realized that I am a bit of a perfectionist and I just got feeling like I missed too many blog entries about so many events that it started to feel like it was an overwelming task to keep up with all the things I wanted to document, and then I just started avoiding my blog. Well I guess it is only my own loss but I think I realized this is something I really want to do and I going to be more diligent about it from now on.

Ryan and I have been in Grenada now for a little over a year, and it has definitly been an adventure, it has tested us both as a couple and as individuals. I am happy to report in response to my last blog post in which I wrote about our arrival into Grenada, that it is not so scary anymore being here and the foreign has now become the norm and we in fact did manage to find some food and some pillows our second day in Grenada.
Since those early days, Ryan has settled and adjusted well to medical school, despite spending much of 1st term being quite unsure if he should be here. Now, he is definitly a star med student and I am very proud of him and grateful for his big brains. So in the last year, we bought a car in November, had Mac, Leisl, and Tenly (Ryan's brothers fam) come down to visit. In January 2010, we moved off the SGU campus into a area called L;ance Aux Epines, the expat area, into a small but new apartment building. Survived an island-wide water shortage and learned that you CAN feel like you are camping in your own home and subsequently became a water hoarder and probably developed some superstitions regarding water in general. We came home in May 2010 for a month-long break and while home in Edmonton, I kept referring to Grenada as home, saying things like "when we get back home in June". I alarmed myself with these statements. When we did come back to Grenada in June, we moved back onto the SGU campus. We actually have a job here on campus as the Resident Assistants to 6 dormitory buildings on campus. So this is the reason we did move back onto campus and with this job includes free rent and a biweekly stipend, it is a very sweet deal. I also enjoy having something more to do with my time here and I am able to get to know more people, which I have discovered that making friends here is the key to survival, and don't count on your med student hubby to be a friend that will hang out with you very often. So my grandma was right when she told me to get a hobby! Very wise woman.

Also, on August 8th 2010, Ryan and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary! We had a wonderful and busy weekend together, juggling RA duties (i.e. welcoming new students and handing out keys) and a romantic day at an all-inclusive resort, a dinner at Laluna. We also decided to start a tradition that on every wedding anniversary we will write each other a love letter and we will get a our pictures taken in celebration. We will put these letters and pictures in a scrapbook for our keepsake. Its mushy, I know, but it is a good way to get Ryan to write me love letters; if he thinks it is an assignment, haha jk.  So anyways, I thought I would share some pictures taken in celebration of our 1 year wedding anniversary.