Down Under The Sea

So, I have finished going over today's lecture and I'm having a hard time motivating myself to do more work. I figured that I would blog about the recent past then!

Hmm... let's see! Well, last week was the 3rd block of exams for Anatomy and Histo. They went pretty well for me. Did good in the Anatomy lecture test and just like everyone else, bombed the lab exam. BUT got a decent grade overall for the block so I am happy. I'm not sure why our class is having such a difficult time with the lab exams.. they are just killing us! We have not had 1 lab exam where the class average was a passing grade. Come to think of it... we haven't had an overall exam where the average was a passing grade. There were 100 students who took the first Anatomy exam and 45 failed the whole block. Second block yielded 2 dropouts and 56 failed the whole block. This is where the chains fell off the tractor... We were down to 89 who took the 3rd block exam and still had 40 F's. As we currently stand, approximately half of the class is failing Anatomy and that's just no bueno! We all have our theory's as to why this is, but I'm glad I'm not one of them! *knock on wood*

After blocks, I went with a few friends up to Queens Garden (a small little hotel overlooking The Bottom and the ocean) and we had lunch then hung out at the pool all afternoon! It was soo great to relax with nothing to do! Problem was... I continued to relax the next day... and the next.... and the next... and then went Scuba Diving on Saturday. We will pick this up in a few.......

I am working towards getting my scuba diving certification and started it this past weekend. It's really cheap for students here and after diving twice on Saturday, it is my new favorite activity on Saba! We met at a pool at one of the hotels in the morning and did some of the confined water skills and went to the ocean in the afternoon to do open water dives.

We went to a place on the west side of the island called Torrens Point. It was about 30-35 feet deep and had a sandy bottom. It was really awesome to swim to the bottom and go around and above all the soft coral and cool fish! We didn't see a lot of big, exotic fish like sharks and eels, but we did see a squid and manta ray. I have completed 2 of the 4 dives required for my scuba certification and hope to get those done soon... latest will prolly be after 4th block (which is only 2 weeks away - yikes). 

So, here we are... almost 11 o'clock on Monday and I need to finish catching up from my previous week of relaxation and I'm having trouble motivating myself to do more than just today's work. I'm gonna try to get a little in, but the bed is calling my name and I don't like to disappoint it by not going. We shall see who wins out!

I leave you with a picture of The Ladder. This used to be the only entrance to Saba until the Cove was built. The house you see about halfway up the picture is the old customs house. Everything that came on or left the island had to go up those steps to the customs house... then up a big hill after that!