I am a student and I was in San Pedro during the hurricane. First of all, I would like to say that I am thankful to the Thorntons, Dr. Rene Sersland, Marty, Dr Jackson, Dr Matayoshi, Dr Rosales, Dr Adamson, Dr McIntyre, Dr Ali, Dr Bahar. I appreciate the Thorntons & Dr. Rene Sersland for providing support and whatever information that they could provide for my parents and all the parents. Thank you, Marty, for running this site and for trying to get help for the locals over there. Lost in this entire hurricane situation is the fact that all of the above mentioned profs worked to help the students while at Princess Hotel or on the island of San Pedro itself. I appreciate what all of you did.

I think those people who were not on the island at the time cannot understand what the students are complaining about. We are not complaining about all of those people that have helped out.

I think it's a shame that some of you care to attack the character of the students who went through such an ordeal. You should know that there were a handful of students who stayed to help out in the best way that they could. Not all of the students could stay to help even if they desired to do so b/c Dr Jeffrey Sersland stated himself that this would not be possible. So we had to get as many students off the island as we could.

I apologize for leaving any profs out of the above mentioned list. I only listed those names that I can recall from memory.

I will note that there was a U.S. Army Chopper at the airport on Saturday morning when I myself tried to evacuate. I don't know what that is about. I think the U.S. embassy didn't put us on their priority list - but that's just my opinion. A few tourists were evacuated on that chopper. From my apartment, i saw another chopper flying in the air.

Do you all realize that even though HURRICANE KEITH blind sided us, 2 highly important figures of the campus evacuated the island on their own? I will not mention any names. But one left on Friday - this individual talked to a few students and said that there was bad weather coming in so he/she was leaving. The other important figure left on Saturday - in his/her defense, I will mention that he/she posted some info regarding a tropical storm just before he/she left. It is true that we are not children and that we are all adults. But I just wish someone would've notified by phone, and believe me, there was time to do that. What's done is done. We cannot change anything that has happened. Let's all just make some changes in the event that this happens again. Student input as well faculty input is important.

Peace