it's been a bit

I know it's been awhile but sometimes I get sick of being on the computer so much for my school work that I want to get off of it as soon as I can.

These past two weeks have been so busy! Brett is studying hard! and I am too. The weather is cooling off a bit with the exception of today. It hasn't been raining every day but still is often. I have been able to go snorkeling a few times, twice with friends and once last saturday with Brett.  We are for sure moving to the Bahamas  January 7th.  we just sent the lease off for our apartment today! Our apartment in the Bahamas has a bath tub, table with 6 chairs, 2 couches, a king size bed, an ice maker in the fridge, a washer and dryer, a pool. All of those things we do not have now so we are feeling very lucky to have this opportunity. We will be maybe a mile from the reef in Freeport Grand Bahamas.  I am mostly looking forward to the shopping there it looks like it will be cheaper and as opposed to here I won't have to carry it all home in my backpack!

Ross University gave us a barrel to ship our stuff for us to  the Bahamas that will help the move be so much smoother! The barrel is huge! we can fit all our stuff in it and more! 

For those of you who are wondering Brett had his second mini last week all the students said it was the hardest test including him but he did well. I am constantly impressed with my amazing husband.

I finished a book this week called the 5 love languages. The book was required to read in my marriage class. Fortunately I loved the book and it gave me such a different perspective on marriage. so if anyone is looking for a good book I recommend this one. 

Brett was a ref for the championship football game today, he got super muddy as anyone does who steps out on those fields. After the game we headed up to school and watch the friday night movie Wally and Get Smart We are home now watching the bbal game.

We are on the countdown till we leave, I have mixed feelings I am excited to move but there are things about this place I will miss. 

5 things I will miss about Dominica.

1. The clouds here are different looking to me. They look like they go up and up forever. The clouds here move so fast it's really cool!

2. I am going to miss all the rainbows. It rains alot but the rainbows are worth it.

3. I am gonna miss our friends who are locals here. 

4. I am gonna miss our cute little first apartment.

5. I am gonna miss our huge shower!

5 things I am excited about for the Bahamas

1. Better selection and convenience of grocery stores

2. a real bed

3 hot water

4. customer service ( doesn't exist in Dominica)

5. Wendy's #6

This past Halloween Brett studied up at school and I helped with the Halloween party for primary. I had no costume so I colored and cut kitty cat ears and taped them to a headband, then drew a black nose and whiskers with some eyeliner. The party was fun but lasted only an hour. Then I headed home carved some oranges to look like jack-o-lanterns filled them with chocolate pudding so we could have a halloween treat and read a book... That was a weird Halloween for me here.

 

Dominicans don't celebrate Halloween here they are busy celebrating their independence of 30 years. I am talking major parties and stores and banks are closed for like 4 days!  it was cool I got to see a parade of the local school kids they all dress up in their Creole clothes and wave Dominican flags around!

Last weekend Brett and I went exploring! we walked up the road behind our house. We had never walked that road before and were curious to see if we could get a better view of the ocean from up there. Instead of a view we found a grapefruit and banana farm so we picked some grapefruit and Brett showed me his grapefruit juggling skills! it was so fun! Walks here are awesome you never know what things you will see

.This is me jumping and jumping til I finally got that grapefruit!

Brett made home made chicken noodle soup Sunday! with home made noodles too!!! I am not joking! This was the BEST SOUP I have ever had! I ate till I thought I might be sick! I was so impressed by my husbands talent, and I love to brag about it to anyone who'll listen!

I just have to say I love being married!     LOVE IT!!!

wedding photos

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The life of Brett Burtenshaw

I decided that the last few posts were a lot of my adventures and I wanted to show you a little of what Brett does here in and out of school.

A normal day consist of waking up at 5:45. Before we head off to school we shower, eat breakfast, read scriptures and pray.

Brett will either have class or spend his whole morning studying and media sight ( watch his class online) his lectures later in the day. We eat lunch around noon, then more studying.

Dinner is at 5 every day and then headed back to school for labs, TA sessions, PBL study groups or just some plain old studying.

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This is Brett at a Lab Demo. They go in the Cadaver lab and listen to what another student just learned about the muscles, nerves, etc. on the Cadaver. 

Brett studies a lot in the PBL room #4 with his friends David and Erick. They have to reserve these rooms in advance and lately it has been difficult to get one due to it's getting a little crowded here. The PBL rooms are usually freezing cold, sometimes you will see people wrapped in sweaters and blankets in these rooms. Brett likes that they are so cold he says it keeps him awake while he studies.

In between studying we still get to have fun! We took a walk on the Beach a few days after Hurricane Omar caused a mess on the Beach, the fence Brett is standing by used to be a real fence with pickets; they are gone now. 

Brett Plays on the 5th semester football team here and he is AWESOME!  He is #2 and scored 3 of the six touch downs in the game yesterday. Two of Bretts Touch downs were in overtime. The funny thing about yesterdays game is that he was playing against his own semester. After the game some of the second semester people were joking with him beating his own semester.

At the culture show this lady sang a love song in German to Brett. She was singing the song and asked if there was any guy out there who knew German. I was excited! Brett would have never gone up if I hadn't given his Language skills away then the people around us started cheering for him to go so he was a good sport and went. The video is a good one but I think it is too long to upload on blogger. It was really funny. He looked cute up there!

Brett is really working hard and doing well in school. I am so proud of him and thankful for him.

I have THE BEST HUSBAND in the world! He is the Best Best Friend. I am a really lucky girl! :)

Hurricane Omar

HURRICANE OMAR

By order of the President of  Dominica all institutions were to shut down yesterday due to Hurricane Omar. The school was evacuated and we spent the day at home inside.   The power was out for a few hours and we have not had clean water for about 2 days.  Here are some pics of the island during and after. The video at the bottom was from our front door.  (sorry about the end of the video. Dang bugs freak me out! )
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more of TiTou and Middleham falls

This is Tori and I swimming in TiTou gorge! it was so awesome!

 Scaling the wall to get to the jumping point.

That's me jumping!

middleham falls

The hike to Middleham is 45 minutes of stairs! my calves really got it that day! It was another hike through the rain forrest and it started raining on us! a bunch of girls hiked down to th actual fall and got in and swam. Victor our tour guide started cliff diving. and me, Tori and Nellie wanted to too! Victor helped us scale the wall next to the fall and 1.2.3... jump! it was such a fun thing to do! The jump was about 15-20 ft above the water next to the fall. FUN!

A palm tree farm on the way!

Can you see the cave on the left side of the fall? we climbed into that and then scaled the wall towards the fall and up 15-20 ft above the water. I will find the pics of us, I know someone took some.
The trees here are so amazing! the grow in such weird designs not to mention they are huge!


The stairs are man made and have foliage all over them. When it started raining it gets pretty slick.

Titou Gorge

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This trip was by far my favorite! I wish I could bring everyone I know here! we swam through a narrow path to get to a waterfall at the end. ( where they filmed the sword fight in pirates of the Caribbean. where the pirates are in that round cage.)
The picture of the 2 small springs, the one that is orange is a hot sulfer spring, the other is cold.
vicotor was our tour guide, he saved me from drowning. I was really scared. The waterfall was really powerful Victor even said it was the most powerful it had ever been. Well I was stuck between a wall and the push from the fall. Victor was trying to reach me but I just kept going under. He finally jumped in after me and pushed of the wall and shoved me to Tori who was already in the little cavern by the waterfall where you can stand.


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When you look up all you see is a slit of daylight. It was such an amazing swim! The waterfall was beautiful and kinda scary. In the picture is Me Tori and Nellie.

This is the opening of Titou gorge. the water was so crlear blue. There is a narrow path you have to swim through that leads to a waterfall!

If you look closely you can see me! Me and Tori and also one other girl took this crazy jump. There is only about 4 ft. to the other side and so you cannot jump of the ledge you just have to step out and stay straight as a pencil the water is deep and there are no rocks at the bottom! you know me always up for something with a little thrill!

Swimming away so Tori can make the plunge i had to root for her. The jump was kinda scary. Only 3 girls of the 12 jumped and of course our awesome tour guide Victor.

Sorry it's kinda blurry. This is from the inside of the gorge looking out!