Happy Birthday Christopher!

Today is Christopher's Birthday and we are trying to compensate for the different birthday atmosphere here in Dominica. Last night we went out to dinner for Christopher's Birthday at a place called Blue Bay. It was amazing. We sat on the beach while we were served the best Dominican food we have had so far. Christopher had the lobster and I ate the grilled Mahi Mahi. We both thought it was really very good. We went with Andrea and Kyle, Ashley and Ryan, Raksha, Siva, Vineet, Lou, and Carson. We had a great time celebrating Christopher's Birthday. 

After dinner the boys decided they wanted to go out on the dock near by and smoke a cigar and while we were enjoying the beautiful night and ocean view a man came up and offered us a ride back the Picard (which is where we live, we were in Portsmouth for dinner. It is about 10 minutes from where we live (by car)).  So we got to go in a boat back home, which was really fun. I just wish it would have been day time so we could have been able to see the beautiful land from the ocean. 

 

Today we woke up and Christopher went to play his first football intramural scrimmage. He has been looking forward to the intramurals since we got here so he had a great time. While we were out there something hilarious happened. Well it was kind of scary but definitely something you don't see everyday. A bull out of nowhere came and charged the boys playing football. Well when I say boys he charged a guy in a red shirt. The guy wasn't hurt, he just ran and hid behind a tree but it was so weird how the bull just came out of nowhere because we were in the middle of campus and we don't normally see the cows and other animals on campus but I guess anything is possible here.

 

For lunch we went to subway and then went back home for some Birthday cake. There is nothing like blowing out "candles" for your birthday. (I don't know if you can tell in the picture or not but they don't have birthday candles here in Dominica so Christopher just had to blow out a match. But it was still fun and I know that even though it was korny he liked it. 

So now let me get back to some past events that have occurred here in the past few days since we haven't had internet I have not been able to update the blog. Christopher was inducted into the medical profession on Friday by the White Coat Ceremony. This is a day that Christopher and I have been looking forward to for a long time. I am so proud of all that he has accomplished and I know that what God is doing in our lives is so amazing that he has so many great things for us in the future. 

Let me kind of explain what the White Coat Ceremony is all about. This ceremony is when the new incoming medical students get to wear their White Coats for the first time. It is a huge ceremony that they have the president of Dominica come and along with him they had a few speakers followed by the actual White Coat part of the ceremony. Each student goes down in front and a current M.D. will put their coat on them. Following that they are then pinned with a Ross University Pin. The whole ceremony was very uplifting because they really praised all of the students for their hard work at getting to this point and it made the students feel like they were one step closer to becoming a doctor. I am so proud of Christopher and I know that he is going to do so great.

 

We wish that we could be in Oklahoma this weekend so we could spend the weekend with our families. It has been a big weekend with Christopher's Birthday and Betsy's graduation. Congratulation Betsy. We wish we could be there to see you walk across the stage but know that we love you and are thinking about you today. We miss everyone back at home! I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend.