Flows

It just finished raining extremely hard on the metal roof of the Annex for a total of about 10 minutes. That means that the normally clear, slow-moving creek that runs by my apartment building is most certainly a faster, deep orange color.

Today I've been operating by the words on of our presenters mentioned during orientation. "You'd be amazed at how easy some things get done here." By here he meant the island of Dominica of course. As we all arrived, no doubt we all had a few experiences where we had a brush with the difference in modus operandi between DA culture and US culture - Just ask Kelly about getting food at Emerald Pool. Yet it's true that things also just happen, sometimes too easily, and I think it has to do with expectation and confusion.

Back home, I was used to being offered everything, gathering all the necessary information, making my choice, and obviously having that choice available. Here, well, there are choices. But usually whatever you want, they don't have. And as far as school is concerned, there seems to be various areas of disorganization, and an associated lack of communication. There seems to be just enough misinformation, or well-intentioned partial communication to throw things for a loop. (you know it's serious when the biochem professors get frustrated!). And as a result, you have a ton of people walking around confused, scavenger hunts for packets between classes, long lines in the sun... it's all actually pretty funny when you stop and think about it sometimes.

But if you just take a step back, slow down, read a little deeper, and instead of telling, once in a while just ask what they have to offer, I think this whole thing will run just fine...

just fine...

Well, it's raining again. More muddy water in the creek. And time to read more biochem.