Ross University Welcoming Committee

For the last two weeks my husband, two daughters, and I have been serving on the Ross University Welcoming Committee. While we have thoroughly enjoyed giving new students a tour of campus and answering their questions, we are also worn out from the experience! We have been checking in every evening by 4:00 pm at the Ross University Housing Office to greet the new students and their family members after their long and tiresome journey to Dominica. We've helped with their luggage, given them their Ross handbags, assisted them to their 'hotel rooms' and then escorted them around campus. This has frequently involved long periods of waiting in the office for the bus of students to arrive, not an easy task if you are trying to keep a 4 and 6 year old entertained.
For me, personally, the experience has been enjoyable. I remember what my first campus tour was like, and I have loved trying to assist the '1st semesters'. I'm usually quite good with names, but there have been so many over the last few weeks that I greet people at a complete loss for their name, even if they have told it to me multiple times. Many of the tours have gone late for a young family, and the girls have lost all desire to go to bed at a decent hour. While this has been difficult on us, I feel equally bad for the students arriving as they are mostly starving after their journey. The tour culminates as we show them to a local restaurant, but this has been regularly occuring as late as 8:30 in the evening. Almost all of the new students arrive too late to make it to a grocery store, and many have arrived on days when the grocery stores aren't even open. Those who have found the Ross Spouses Organization or ValueMd websites have been at least somewhat prepared for these hardships, but living off of protein bars and whatever other packaged food brought on the airplane can only sustain one for so long before you just want a nice, home-cooked meal.
Technically new students will continue to arrive over the next several days, but we have completed our committment for now, and are looking forward to our next adventure...
a trip to the French island to the North - Guadeloupe!!!