Puppy and SCUBA!!

SOOO yes I am fostering a puppy with my roommate Jenny. I signed up for this task through the PAWS organization I talked about in a previous post. He is adorable!!! Only 6 weeks old!! I must admit, I was a bit nieve in thinking he would be wrapped up in a bow all fluffy in clean when we got him...this, sadly, was not the case. I am so overwhelming happy that Jenny and I were able to provide this puppy the opportunity to get out of the environment he was in. He is slowly regaining a lot of strength that many parasites had leaked out of him. Lucky for us that PAWS supplied all the materials needed, including crate, bowls, food, ect. We are only to provide care and LOTS of loving! I am almost positive we are sticking with the name Arthur, Party Arty for fun. He only woke up 4325 times last night, so I am hopefule things will get better /: I will absolutely keep it posted on his development.

He just collapsed here, happy to be out of dirt and fly infestation!

Holy big belly!

Jenny is pain-stakingly plucking out every engorged tick from the poor little guys ears.

At school there is a Scuba club that you can join and it is pretty great because you become Scuba certified. The class consists of a couple dives in the pool and a couple out in the ocean, a written exam, and then you are open water certified. If I want to dive to greater depths and see things like shipwrecks, I will have to take a couple more classes. One thing at a time, I just used a regulator for the first time today!! I am not going to lie and say I was a beginner pro, the first time submerging my head under water I was so startled by all the bubbles coming out of my regulator when I exhaled that I almost up and left. After awhile, you get the hang of it and it doesn't seem all that wierd to breathe underwater.

I am taking this really seriously...

The instructor knew me pretty well, he said I was for sure going to get too cold in the pool so I needed a wetsuit...I thank him for this because I was the only one that did not turn purple!

The damn thing was hard to put on though, skin tight! It was a childrens XL, go figure...

Our instructor had to help me zip-up.

And after all that effort I had to take part of it off so he could lecture us on what we were doing today...

Just putting my weights in my BCD pockets, no biggie..

Welp that tank on my back was pretty heavy out of water...my noodly stature was taking a beating.

Getting situated with the group, all Vetpreppers and another kittitian that was pretty insistant on limeing with us after (limeing means partying) /:

I lost quite a bit of hair taking my mask and snorkel off and on.

Jenny is so cool.

aaaaaand we are under!! phew, I didn't drown in a pool!

I am "saving" Jenny here because she is too "tired" from playing with the puppy all night...

Yay for wetsuits!!!

First time in scrubs on the island!

So I passed all my tests!!!! Yay, I live to study another day! I thought taking four tests in two hours was going to be horrific, but it turned out most people finished in one hour..I usually take my time so it took me a bit longer. Anyways, I feel confident now that I will make it to next semester without too much trouble. I have a countdown to my white coat ceremony on my desk top, of course. The day after our exams we had our applications class in which we are able to physically interact with patients. We had to put on scrubs or a lab coat because we were going to the barn area on campus to hang out and talk about a lame horse. The horse, I forgot the poor guys name, had been lame on his left front forelimb for awhile. He is a retired race horse, so his enlarged carpus is most likely a result of his previous profession.  He was super nice to let us palpate his booboo area.

Jenny and I in our scrubs!

Kristen and I in our scrubs..note to self, do not take any more pictures on campus because we got in trouble for this one. (we are not allowed to take pictures on campus, just a professional school rule I guess)

Here are some pictures of our amazing volleyball team!! This is our very first game which was considered practice, so it doesn't matter that we were murdered! This court is infront of a bar called Elvis's on "the strip."

Here is our third game, which we won!! Our two first games that count we have won, beacuse we are awesome...This court is infront of a bar called Mongoose's and it is on south friars beach I believe. It is right next to shipwreck beach where the monkeys drink till their drunk!

Obviously I am always in the proper volleyball stance because I come from a hardcore background of volleyball playing (;

Most of the team enjoying a mango coolada after our victory!!

What a realaxing Saturday with some great ladies... this is probably one of my more favorite beaches. We went to Reggae Beach this saturday and realaxed. It has the best, most clear water to swim in that I have seen yet. My friend Lindsey informed me that the bar and beach are owned by a husband of a veterinarian that teaches at Ross University...so my next proposition for RJ is this, hey babe do you wanna open a bar on the beach and I will practice veterinary medicine on a carribean island?? We'll see what he says, perhaps he could be the island "human" doctor on the side...ahhh to dream (:

We noticed people coming on this dock with suitcases and boating off to Nevis. It would be pretty wild to fly into St. Kitts and then have to hop on a little boat with your suitcases to get to your hotel on Nevis...I am unsure if Nevis has an airport, but after seeing this I doubt it.

So a very infortunate event happened about a week ago that forced Jenny to travel home. Her grandfather passed away so she left and I looked after little Orion for her. Here is Orion making himself at home in my room while she was gone...though he has a tendency to randomly attack me at times, I still love him (: