4th semester

What a relief! I'm in Fort Lauderdale airport and just used Kerri's laptop to check. My heart was beating so fast, Edward and Kerri looking on anxiously for any hint from my facial response. I told Kerri and Edward I would either do a cartwheel or if I failed go take a few shots of tequila....I did a great cartwheel!

Many might think it's just finals, but it's a huge investment and commitment we make. No one except for like 5 classmates have the semester pretty much secured leading up to finals, but were not all brainiacs. So for the rest of us we play this game of finding out our fates on saturday by noon. Will I have to pack my bags (failed more than two courses)? Will I have to repeat the whole semester (failed one class and have a last and final chance to repeat the semester)?

So from here I can "officially" start my vacation. A layover here and another one in Dallas then a hop to S.F. It's good to be back in the states, it's cold.......a nice change.

Multi-tasking

Feline Infectious Peritonitis: Mortality 100%

This weekend was all about virology. We spent so much time together, She told me about all her diseases and I repeated them over and over. We talked about her on walks, mtn bike rides, and even on the trainer, repeating group listings: zoonotics, reportables, vesicular forming, and on and on. I'll confess half-way through the weekend I felt like I wasn't getting anywhere with viro. But today it all came together.....I started making connections and that's the key to alot of these subjects (parasitology, bacteriology, etc.). I mean come on, when you can rant off viruses while your anaerobic I'd say you know some viro!

I checked out another cane road this weekend, it was nice. I started off on the cane roads, climbed on the road to upper Cayon. Their in Cayon the pavement ended and after a series of forks I was in rainforest. After a nice descent it opened up to a cane field with the Atlantic on my right. I took some pictures but for some reason the laptop doesn't recognize my camera now that I replaced the hard drive.

This next week is the last week of lectures and then it's crunch time after that: FINALS! I'm already thinking of all the rides I want to do back in CA. History in the making here on St. Kitts, for the first time a 747 landed! The runway was extended, apparently when 737's land they only have 50 feet to spare? Sounds scary.

Sharie and Nicole and (Indie) are in Oakdale now. Nicole is so busy playing with her cousins that she forgets about her Papa :{ atleast she's have fun. But that's o.k. I let her hear me playing with her toys while on the phone!

Alright, I better study another subject before I lose balance! Have a great week!

Sergio