Apartment Search!

Well, I was totally unsuccessful in the housing lottery and instead of waiting around and hoping I get off the waitlist I've decided to be proactive and find a place to live myself. Basically, there are way too many students attending SGU for them to accommodate all of the people that want to live on campus. :( I was fairly annoyed at first about having to deal with moving off campus but I'm feeling much better about it now. There are definite pros and cons to living off campus. I'm (obviously) focusing on the pros at the moment. I get to live away from school so it’ll be more like ‘going home’ at the end of the day. I can have a pet! Walking around in Grenada makes me feel the environment just that much more. It’s easy to get caught up in the bubble that is campus life and forget that I’m living on a tropical island. It’s significantly cheaper so I’ll be saving a bit of money.

So I spent the day running around Grenada looking for a place to live. It was a nice break in routine (class, study, class, study, sleep, sleep, study, feel guilty for not studying, repeat) and reminded me once again how pretty the island really is. I think I've found a place but I have one more apartment to look at tomorrow. I will post again with more details and pictures of my chosen domicile for term 2 tomorrow hopefully. Here are a few pictures of the island's creatures that I took pictures of as we trekked around. We stopped at a nice resort restaurant on the way back from house hunting. It was on a dock and it was nice to watch the sun set over the ocean while chatting about housing options. All in all, a fairly productive and surprisingly relaxing day (except for the part where I almost had heat stroke :p).

I finally took a picture of a cow here in Grenada!

Here is a quick shot I took of an adorable snowy egret (Egretta thula). They're fairly ubiquitous around the island.
Just a random shot which we were looking around.I was really happy to get this picture of a Great Heron (Ardea alba) which is a protected species. For reference (if anyone cares) this bird is about twice a big as the snowy egret and has black legs instead of yellow. What? I'm a biology major and I like birds!Here are a few shots from the resturant that we ate at.