September 4, 2007

\We had Global health class this morning at were at NMMU at 9:00 to start our learning. By noon, we were free for the day! It is absolutely gorgeous today, so when I came home from classes I changed into shorts and a tank top and we headed down to the beach to do homework! Carrie, Ashley, Katherine, and I all found a spot in the sun and we began reading while Alex tried surfing! The waves were perfect but the surfboard needed wax. We ended up lying in the sun for an hour, and after being tired of sand blowing everywhere we came back home to where we sat around and did homework. Now I’m sitting on the balcony, facing the ocean and trying to remind myself when I have to leave this beautiful view to go home to Minnesota! Not that I don’t want to come home to everyone because I miss so many people, but knowing that I have to come back to a Minnesota winter when the weather here is getting so nice, and the ocean and beach are so clean and pretty! No worries, I won’t move here permanently, but I probably will have to take many vacations to the ocean (or buy a vacation home) when I can afford one when I am a nurse!

This afternoon I had a bad craving for muffins, so I went and borrowed a muffin tin and I made a dozen bran muffins. The apartment smelled so good and when they came out of the oven I had one nice and warm with strawberry jam on it! Denise, my professor even made her way down to try one…she was impressed, but do I have her fooled, because muffins, quesadillas, grilled cheese, and spaghetti are the extent of my culinary skills! For dinner Carrie, Katherine, Denise, and I went to an Indian restaurant and I had the chicken curry. It was out of my comfort zone to order that, but I figured that Gen would be proud of me! I thought of you when I was eating it my IS! After dinner we came back home and it has been studying and checking emails and I was so excited to see a new book and chapter email from Grandma and Papa and after that email more followed from Erin and Suze! It was so nice to hear from everyone, but good to hear that Suze and her back are still on the mends but making progress!