hiking, and Fish Friday, I've been truly living likea Grenadian. From experiencing my first Carnival to cruisin' the Caribbean, I have explored what it means to be a islander. Carnival was a BLAST! The first night was called Jouvert, and it involved an all night paint party. It began with hundreds of students from SGU begin bused into the city with red paint in hand and ended with a parade where barrels of different colors of paint were brought down the street. I don't think anyone had a spot on his or her body where paint was not found. My friends still have paint in their blond hair today. The above picture is of Monica, her boyfriend Danny and myself just as we were getting to city around 4 AM. 
The picture on the left is of all my friends just before dawn, around 6 AM. It only took a few hours to become completely covered in paint. I ended up throwing away the clothes that I wore that night. The best part of the whole night was going to the beach around 7:15 AM to take a bath in the salt water. It looked like a shark had attacked because the water was no longer blue but red in color as many students tried to clean up before going home to shower multiple times trying to rid their bodies of paint. It took me three or four days before I could wear something and not find a little bit of red on it. The second day was called the Mas Parade. It was similar to a Mardi Gras parade except that instead of bands playing music they had huge speakers on flatbed trucks blaring reggae music with thousands of people dancing in the parade to the music, and there were no beads or moon pies. It was just a huge party! The picture below is of Meredith, Casey, me, Lauren and Monica at the parade.
The picture on the left is of all my friends just before dawn, around 6 AM. It only took a few hours to become completely covered in paint. I ended up throwing away the clothes that I wore that night. The best part of the whole night was going to the beach around 7:15 AM to take a bath in the salt water. It looked like a shark had attacked because the water was no longer blue but red in color as many students tried to clean up before going home to shower multiple times trying to rid their bodies of paint. It took me three or four days before I could wear something and not find a little bit of red on it. The second day was called the Mas Parade. It was similar to a Mardi Gras parade except that instead of bands playing music they had huge speakers on flatbed trucks blaring reggae music with thousands of people dancing in the parade to the music, and there were no beads or moon pies. It was just a huge party! The picture below is of Meredith, Casey, me, Lauren and Monica at the parade. 
I brought some Mardi Gras masks for us to wear to the parade. People kept staring at us because most people did not have pretty masks. I think they were a little jealous. Thanks mom!
The picture on the left is of one of the flat bed trucks that was decorated and playing some really loud music for everyone to dance to. During this time, my friend Meredith's family was visiting her in Grenada. Her two younger sisters went with us to the Mas Parade and her parents walked in the parade with their hotel. On Friday night, her parents took us all out on a sunset cruise. We started around 5 PM and ended at 7 PM when the sun was down. It was absolutely gorgeous and loads of fun. 
There is a green flash as the sun hits horizon. I tried to get a picture of it, but it only lasts a few 
seconds. I ended up missing it. Since classes have started, I am sure that my island life will soon turn into study study study. Hopefully, I will be able to share more of Grenada with you this term.
