Where is Dominica?

When I started telling people that I was going to school in Dominica, many said "O, isn't that by Haiti?" Nope that would be the Dominican Republic.  If you look at the picture below, Dominica is circled in Red.

 We are actually closer to South America than North America but we are still in the same time zone as all of you people on the east coast (thank goodness because it makes video-chatting that much easier).  One main difference is that in Dominica, there is no daylight savings time.  

We have daylight from about 6am to 6:30pm every day and the weather is pretty much 93 degrees (of course with humidity it generally feels over 100 degrees).  When it rains, it REALLY rains!  The other night it sounded like there was a waterfall outside my room because the rain was so intense.