Dear students,
You should sign up early for the Prague selective because spaces fill up quickly. You should explore the Grenada beyond campus. Rent a car and drive to Grand Etang Lake or La Sagesse with your friends and a cooler, take a hike to Seven Sisters waterfall and jump the cliffs, head to Gouyave for Fish Fryday and relax. Keep that promise and learn to surf. Also, study.
St. George’s University puts us in a strange position. Because each group of students arrives and leaves the island within 18 months, it is hard to establish traditions and feel a sense of history with previous classes. Each of us is left to pester those ahead for little morsels of advice and, whenever we put in the energy to make a change, it is hard to know if it took hold and left others better off.
“Welcome to Grenada” is an effort to fix some of this. We cannot make this a series of bar stories (though we do have some great ones). What we can do is gather together information to make your life as a student easier and remove some of the unexpected. Grenada can be a great place to live and learn medicine and there is no reason for you not to know this.
As you read this guide, please keep in mind that it is merely the opinions of two students, both from the United States. It is in no way a complete representation of life at SGU, nor is it intended to be. This guide is meant to inform, entertain, and relax you in preparation for what might be the best bet you ever made.
What follows comes from the efforts of students that love this school and want you to have every opportunity that they had. Somewhere between class, lab and library they took the time to make this resource for you. It is a living document for you to change and mold as your own. Take what you can, give what you can, and remember how easy your life is: wake up, learn things, sleep.
Congratulations on becoming a medical student and Welcome to Grenada.
Sincerely,
Christopher Kinsella
Jessica Kramer
December 5, 2006 at 9:25 am
Wonderful writing to all of these editors.
I was at a German University studying in German, and now I am continuing at one of the Prague Faculties. Your insights are relevant to all US IMGs like myself, and I thank you for the work you put into this. In particular, Chris Kinsella is a great Studentdoctor blog-ist, because the insights and reflections are hysterical, and meaningful, and a necessary resource for hundreds of US students studying outside the states. Cheers, and based on your impact on all of us in the field, you have already made an impact in medicine.
Ahoj from Prague!