Here we are leaving our home in Glanvillia. We don't have a car so we walk to Picard, the town where the school is located. It takes us about 20 minutes and I am usually covered in sweat by the time I get there. Sometimes we will catch a bus but there is no real bus schedule so sometimes I will just walk instead of waiting 10 minutes for a bus. At the end of this road we take a right.
In this picture, on the right is where we put our garbage. They seem to come and pick it up about once every three to four weeks. It actually looks pretty good today. Across from the garbage there is another road and that is where we take a left and walk up the road that is in the next picture.
This road leads out to the main road that runs through Glanvillia. On the left of this picture there is a little bar/store. We go here sometimes to get Coke. In the evenings we find many of the locals playing dominos. At the other end of the road is a bar/store that is extremely small. At the end of this road we take a left.
This is the end of the road where we take a left. Across the street is the Glanvillia Community Center and the Golden Dragon Chinese Restaurant. We will follow this road until we get to the University. We will pass Tina's, a grocery store we frequently use. I am so happy because I just found out Tina's sells flats of Coke. I can get 24 plastic bottles of coke there for 40.70 ec.
That is better then spending 3-5 ec per bottle!
This is the road that takes us to the University. It curves to the right just after Tina's, the grocery store. If we take this road in the other direction it will stop at the ocean and if you take a right it will go into Portsmouth.
This is the curve. Unfortunately there is not a sidewalk. There are also no speed limit signs! After the curve in the road is the Annex. The Annex is where the 1st semester med students have class. Keith also goes there to study in the evenings or on weekends.
After the curve the road goes up a little and then heads back down. On the right you can see the Annex. We keep taking this road to the University. There is a KFC and a Rituals Coffee on the right hand side after the Annex. Rituals is a coffee shop similar to a Caribou Coffee or Starbucks.
At the bottom of the hill the road flattens out and this road leads us to the school. We usually take a right by the shacks and go into the school that way. There is usually a guy that parks his pick up on this road and sells fresh fruits and vegetables. I would never walk this at night. Luckily Ross provides free transportation to your front door after 7pm. The transports leave from the Library, the Annex, and the PACE building near the swimming pool every half hour after 7pm and they continue through the night until 2am.
This is a tough walk in the heat of the day!!! So now you know why I need to take two to three showers a day--especially if I have to push Alex in a stroller!
A lot of people ask if Glanvillia is safe. I say it is. Of course I am not walking around at 10pm at night. It is easy to get to and public transportation is not hard to come by. To take a transport to the school from Glanvillia is 1.50 ec.
