Now that I'm here

It's my first official day here, well it's pretty much over now, but first day down and a ton more to go. It's hot, so hot actually that I don't even know why I bother to shower. I've unpacked all of my things and they all have a place, just how I like it - OCD. I have a TV that goes out twice a daybecause power outages here occur eery few hours. I do have running water, thank godness, but parts of the showerhead g over my curtain and leak on the floor - hopefully they will fix this shortly. My AC is also leaking water into my apartment and hopefully that will ALSO be fixed tomorrow. Last night I slept in 90 degree weather - it wasn't fun or pretty - I woke up puffy and looked like I took a sweat shower.

I got a few things done today: Got a phone so I can call home once in a while and mostly Travis probably :), I got a bank account(a 2 hour ordeal), got my latop configured, got an ID, paid to have electricity so I wouldn't sleep in 90 degree weather tonight, walked like 12 miles, ate ritz crackers for lunch.

Things 've learned thus far: Don't count on ANYTHING, if u like cocoa pebbles then get ALL of the boxes at the store, there may not be any for the next year. If you have a problem of any kind, it may take a week to resolve. Good Service here means a wait of like 25 minutes at the fast food places. rain falls every 15 minutes as if on a timer and rains for exactly 30 seconds. The beach has no sharks. The water is crystal clear blue. The chicken may or may not actually be chicken. The two american places here (subway andKFC) run out of food all of the time. KFC ran out of chicken last night - haha.

So it's certainly interesting and this is my home for the next 16 months - here I go.

Barbara