First Day in the Dorms

I think that my internal clock was still a little messed up after the first night in Barbados, because instead of sleeping in like I had hoped for, I woke up at 1:00 after only three hours of sleep. After about an hour of lying in bed hoping to fall asleep, I got up played Peggle for a half hour or so then went back to sleep only to wake up at 8ish to get picked up and taken to our EAP orientation. The 6 of us woke to find that in the middle of the night someone else got dropped off from New York and he was completely lost. Being the kind Californian's we were we picked him up and brought him along for the ride... little did we know that there were also two other EAP students staying there that we didn't know about. Our driver then drove us to the Walmer Lodge where we soon found out the rest of the UC students were staying, and we all met each other for the first time.

The EAP orientation was pretty generic, alot of the usual stuff with some small exceptions. There are 3 rules that we have as EAP students, and 3 rules only...

1. Don't get pregnant or get anyone pregnant
2. Don't get arrested
3. Don't die

haha.... those are our only rules for the next 4 months. After orientation we got our first taste of the unpredictable Barbadian weather. As we stood in the blistering hot sun waiting for our taxi to come get us it started pouring in a few seconds time, straight out of an episode of LOST, and after about 5 minutes it stopped suddenly and was hot again. This has become a very common occurance and I'm getting quite used to it

After orientation we got our stuff and moved into the dorms. These dorms are very different than the ones I had at UCI. For one there are only single rooms and the rooms are very tiny. The bathroom does not come stocked with toilet paper, handsoap, or anything. and most of all there is no A/C... which tends to be a burden when the temp is a constant 88 during the day and 80ish at night all year long. After moving in, alot of us headed to a beach up the coast a bit where they had trampolines in the water, jet ski's, and plenty of other touristy things but decided to sav our money for a while and just swim for the day, but come back later to do the activities. Later on in the night after getting some food and hanging out at the dorms for a while, a good sized group of us went down to the local corner store, got some beer and hung out on the beach all night with frogs and crabs.