Is There Life After a Plane Ride Into Dominica?

After we survived the plane ride and landing, and got all our luggage, the next adventure was getting to the school. At the airport, there were a lot of men that work for Ross University there helping get the luggage packed in the trucks. And when I say trucks, I mean like the c-biscuit. We are not taking nice vans, or some other vehicle that is inclosed. Nope- a big pick up truck. Then men were throwing things in the back of the trucks as fast as they could, but we had no idea what the "PLAN" was. I just kept thinking, "I hope I see those things again." But no need to worry. All the trucks were going to the same place. Ross University.

As you can see they did use a tarp to cover the trucks which was nice, but wow what a site!

We were the last ones out which we did on purpose, we all had to go through customs and since we had the most stuff we let everyone else go first and waited until the end. When we got up to the counter, the guy looked at all of our stuff and asked us why we were in Dominica, so we told him for Medical School, and all he said was, "Okay you can go ahead." He didn't look in anything or ask any other questions. I think he was just ready for his break, but what ever the reason we really lucked out. Since we were last thought we had to wait for all the people fileing for missing luggage. So the truck with our luggage had long gone before we ever left. But we got on our way and had a really good driver. (As if I know a good driver form another here right!) But he was very informative and told us a lot about the island our our drive. It was really interesting but I kept thinking, "I wish he would just watch the road and not worry about being a guide right now.

The roads are very narrow and really winding. I can't even begin to describe them to you in a way to do it any justice, however, it is wide enough for barely two cars, but in some places only one car can fit. Which means the cars coming the other way have to wait, the worst part is that these really narrow parts always seem to be right before a huge turn in the road. There are no lines on the roads, not speed limit signs, and no police anywhere. Our driver in my opinion was driving rather fast especially for the turns and so natually we caught up to the slowest person on the road. Well like I said very narrow roads, so since he can't just pass, we drives clear up until it looks like we are going to hit him, then he honks and backs off just a tiny bit. Then be does it again. This goes on and on until we fially get to a place that he feels is okay to pass, However in Utah I know it would totally be a double yellow line, and he goes around them. Oh and I forgot to tell you, they drive on the left side of the road, so it feels all wrong to begin with. Then they also have very deep cement ditches off the sides of the road for flooding during the rainy season, so it honestly looks like you are going to fall right off the edge of the road. Now I haven't even mentioned pedestians, but they don't have the right of way here and there are no sidewalks. We would be going along at a pretty good pace and turn a corner to find a bunch of kids walking on the road and barely miss them. I don't think he was really even trying to miss I was just a good thing that their moms had taught them to get out of the way when a truck is coming! Luckily there were no fatalities on our ride! I don't dare ask about any of the other groups that came in.