Day 1 in Grenada. The flight landed at about 7:30 and I was surprised to find it totally dark there. In fact the
landing was a bit scary, because I couldn't see a damn thing out of my window until we were about 10 feet from the ground. I later found out
that due to latitude, sunrise is at 6am, sunset at 6pm. I found Al and we got a cab to the campus, which was a short but harrowing ride.
Each time an oncoming car appeared, the driver would head straight toward it, then casually swerve around it at the last moment, with no sign
of any concern. I eventually got used to this driving style, as it was universal there. The cabbie drove around the entire campus honking his
horn before letting us off, apparently to advertise his services. Honking of horns was another universal part of the Grenada transportation
experience.

Al showed me around the campus that night. I met several of his fellow students, who were in various degrees of
shellshock due to final exams having ended that day. They were very nice people of widely varying nationalities--the first two I met were
Lebanese and Nigerian. The campus was quite beautiful even by night. Like much of Grenada, it was on a hill, so a big view is only a short
yet arduous walk away. It's also on the ocean, and has a black sand beach on one side. We sat on a rocky peninsula and watched the ocean,
illuminated by a brilliant moon. I was introduced to some of the various cats that live on the campus. Most of them are small, skinny and pitch
black, and scare easily. I also discovered one of the coolest things about Grenada, almost all the soda comes in glass bottles, even out of
vending machines. The usual price was about 75 cents US for a .5 liter bottle. It seems the companies have stopped making them, but they're
able to keep it going by reusing the bottles.

This night was also my introduction to some of the subject matter of Al's courses, with which I would become remarkably
familiar over the next few days, considering my non-student status. The end of exams was not able to stop the students from bringing medical
terminology into normal conversation, and using it for some extremely nerdy humor. Al attempted to show me the cadavers he had been dissecting
for his anatomy class, but we only managed to catch a glimpse through a window, and they were wrapped up in their body bags. He showed me
pictures later, and most of them weren't too unpleasant, because they had been thoroughly dissected and looked more like meat than a person.
However the descriptions of some of his assignments, such as extracting the spine or cutting the face in half...I don't think I could ever do
that.

And now that I've given you all nightmares, I'll turn in and end the story of Day 1.