Lisa Woodruff

Review of SGU

My husband is a medical student at SGU and we are ...

My husband is a medical student at SGU and we are almost done our time in Grenada. We have 4 children, all girls, 2 of which are teenagers. I would not recommend families moving to Grenada. Even though my husband is doing very well and has been on the Dean's list every term, it has been difficult for our family to live here. I rarely take my girls out to where locals are because they are constantly hit on, cat called, and approached by local men of all ages, despite the fact that we dress very modestly and keep to ourselves. We purchased horse riding lessons from a seemingly nice Grenada fellow who works with the University vet students for our most soft-spoken daughter for her birthday, and at the 3rd lesson the man who is more than twice her age came onto her and told her not to tell, so now we are dealing with court issues, and it's miserable and horribly drawn out and traumatic for all of us. Food is very expensive, so in the almost 2 years we have lived here we have taken our family out to a restaurant once. Grocery shopping is as expensive as eating out all the time back in America, and we can rarely afford meat. We homeschool all our children here because it's a much better education at home than what they would get in any of the local schools, and they would have charged us thousands of dollars to enroll our kids because tuition for non locals is way way higher. The public library is near impossible to find, but there is a 3 level little hidden house full of books downtown, but no parking. Many of the local men especially are very bossy and frequently on power trips and often treat anyone who looks American like they don't know what they are doing. The beaches are beautiful, and we often go to the quieter ones where less people go and those days are wonderful. My husband is going to be a doctor, so this is a means to an end... But if you have children, especially girls, take any other option for medical/vet school that you can. The tuition is huge, and it's a hard experience. Definitely pray about it before you come.