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Engagement Pictures

There is a student that is a photographer that goes to Ross University. I stumbled across her website and noticed she did engagement pictures! What could be a better location for this than a flippin carribean island? So during RJ's last visit, we got our pictures taken. Here is a sneak peak of them:

One of my favorites

One of my favorites








One of my favorites











I felt so bad for RJ because it was so hot. He had to continuously take off his shirt to let it dry in the sun...even Kate, our photographer, was dripping sweat...the only downfall to taking pics in the middle of summer in the carribean.
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Semester I

So sorry for the lack of posts, I have been quite busy. I am sure that this first semester pales in comparison to upper semesters, however, I am finding it challenging nonetheless. I really only want to study anatomy. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy nutrition and microanatomy some days...and even physio can be interesting on occasion. I just find anatomy exceedingly interesting. The trick with anatomy is that not only do you have to study and retain everything for one test, you have to retain that same knowledge for the next ~6 months as every anatomy test until the end of anatomy II is cummulative. I have one under my belt, haha, so we shall see how that goes.

My schedule creates for an exhausted Sara come the weekend. Every morning up at 5:30, exercise Arthur, class till about 3:00, TA sessions most days till about 4-5:00, and then home to exercise Arthur, eat and study some more! Not the most ideal life one would choose for themselves, but it will not last forever (at least that is what I tell myself to get me through it). I passed my first round of exams with decent grades, so I am happy about that (: It is 5 days until my second round of exams occurs, so wish me luck!!

I was fortunate to have RJ come visit these past ~2 weeks! It was a great time! So happy I got to take a little break and have fun while he visited.
RJ and I eating lunch at port after we got him his very own "island cell phone."


The first weekend RJ was here on friday we went to Reggae beach where they had a lobster fest going on. There was a buffet and rum punches, yum!

The girls and myself at lobster-fest.

On saturday we went on a catamaran cruise to Nevis (St. Kitts sister island). There were definitely some celebratory drinks that the first round of exams were completed!

It was a tad windy.

Some dancing was also shared after the rum punches of course...

RJ did not appreciate how hot it was on the catamaran..all the dancing worked up quite a bit of persperation on his part. (note the cute puppy on at his feet!)

On Nevis we ran into a stray dog on the beach that looked exactly like Arthur!! It must have been Arthurs dad!!

RJ wanted to take him home, he was just a little bit more mold mannered than 6 month old Arthur..
I think Arthur is just as calm as this dog, I have no idea what RJ is talking about (;
RJ surprised me and we went to a restaurant called Nirvana, where we sat at our own private table on a balcony, and we had our own waiter...very romantic (as my dad would say he filled up my emotional bank account).
Most nights were just low key pizza and a movie (: (Arthur always joined in)
So I skipped a class to hang out with RJ...a little rebellion is good for a stressed out vet student!
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Around the world at Golfvie Apts.

I have my first exam in veterinary school on monday. So in an effort to side track and not "over study" as I find I am doing, I thought I would update you! So about the second weekend of this semester our apartment complex had a get-to-gether of sorts. (yes, we actually have an address now, golfview apts 15B...as opposed to our previous "address," the next left after the dumpster in Frigate Bay in the big yellow building) So those apartments that participated picked a country and represented it with good food and drinks. We spent about 1 hour at each apartment. Our country was Greece! Caroline had some great recipes to work form. We made cucumber dip, homemade pita chips, and chicken kabobs! Here are some pictures of the night..
Of course we had to dress the part!

The first apartment was USA and I guess St. Kitts combine haha. There was mac and cheese, pigs in a blanket, and johny cakes (really good sandwich thingys on St. Kitts).

Next was Mexico!

AAAAAAreeeba!



Tequila shots in Mexico!

...gross

Italy was right before our Greece


aaand everyone just got a little too excited about our cucumber dip that spilling happened haha

Arthur had a play friend!

Just a cute picture of Arty

Alright, in the distance you can kind of see a water tornado. These things pop up out of nowhere! Yesterday at our volleyball game one just came down right infront of us! People were running up to it and taking pictures with it!! Pretty weird, at least I thought so!

Every semester has fundraisers to save money for our seventh semester party. The fourth semester decided to make a calender of all the (few) boys that were in their class. Well one of the months required some puppies and guess who made it in the picture....Arthur! He is my little Mr. February!

Here is the website with all of the out-takes from the shoot. If you are bored, it is pretty funny to see what a terror Arthur was through the process: http://www.katewalshphotography.com/Kate_Walsh_Photography/Studs_Outtakes_Album/Pages/February_-_Stuart.html
RJ and I are getting our engagement pictures done by the same photographer! Super excited about it!

Wish me luck on my microanatomy exam!