Andrew & Cristina

Today I helped with yet another bake sale at the school. This must have been the third one this semester and it may very well be my last one for a while. I love chatting with the ladies there and it’s fun to see so many new faces during the several hours I’m there, but […]

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Our Halloween costumes got here this afternoon and they’re more or less what we expected. I was afraid we didn’t order them early enough but they arrived here on the island with plenty of time to spare. At first I thought we weren’t going to bother to dress up as anything this year, but then […]

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It’s been a while since my last post. We’re now almost half way through second semester and looking forward to visiting both Ecuador and the US this winter. It should be interesting because we’re cramming all this travelling into two weeks. I thought I’d never get sick and tired of flying but this might be […]

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Goodness, it’s been a while since I last updated this. He’s already had the interview, which went great, and we found out he was accepted last week, on February 13th. :D He’s starting this May and hopefully we won’t be on the island for more than 20 months if things go as planned.
Our to do […]

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He got the interview! The interview is scheduled for this Thursday afternoon and I’m cautiously optimistic. On one hand I know that they liked him enough to grant him an interview, on the other hand he could still come across as a complete dummy. Patience…

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We just found out that the entire application has been received and is being reviewed. Now we have to wait for a call from them, hopefully scheduling an interview. Tick tock…

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We finally had enough of Andrew’s medical school and its lack of support for students who plan to take the USMLE Step 1 and do rotations in the United States. We decided he needs to attend an institution that has a little bit more structure in that department and so he sent an application to […]

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