Just finished my first full week on the island and I have been having a blast. There have obviously been some ups and downs with getting accustomed to the island but so far everyone I've met has been very kind, helpful and excited to start medical school.
We've done one full week of orientation and were fed a lot of information about first semester, finishing medical school, all of our tests, about campus, about the island... you name it - we covered it this week. We also dealt with the more formal aspects of the school including checking in, getting our white coats, finding our lockers, anatomy lab orientation and being put into our lab dissection groups.
After being fed all of this information and seeing all of the different things we need to do it is very easy to get overwhelmed. But I've been told time and time again just take it one day at a time and don't let yourself fall behind.
After all of these intense orientation sessions we had some excursion activities. I saw the Indian River where the Pirates of the Caribbean was filmed, Trafalgar Falls, the Botanical Gardens and Scotts Head (the Southern most point of the island where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean Sea) it was absolutely stunning but not without excitement.
After our long, sweaty hike my friends and I were on the beach area figuring out if we wanted to go into the water to cool down when we quickly realized there was a distressed swimmer in the ocean. Being a lifeguard I knew I had to go try to help this swimmer, I quickly took my shirt, shoes and shorts off (luckily I was wearing my swimsuit underneath). I went down the VERY ROCKY beach and finally made it into the water to help the swimmer in need. Unfortunately when I placed my foot down in the shallow water I landed directly on a sea urchin. As I said that day, I'd rather a sea urchin in my foot than anything else.
Shout out to all of my friends who helped me and have been checking up on me after the incident.
Medical School has to start off with a bang and I can't wait to see what other adventures it may throw my way!
- Jen
On our canoe in the Indian River
The Indian River
Trafalgar Falls
The tip of Rosseau with some friends
The beautiful Scotts Head
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