first day in the M.E.

So my first day here this was the salad I got!!!!!!

I was ecstatic!!!! I love cucumbers and I love tomatoes, and so when I found out this is very popular/common, I was glad that I would continue to have something healthy to eat.

Our flight and travels overall went very smoothly, and we were not too tired when we got in, but we were super tired by about 6 or 7pm. With a 7 hour time difference, and not getting a full night's sleep on the 14hour journey left us a bit bleary eyed. :-)

My first impressions of the country were that it reminded me a lot of Thailand!!!! similar building structures, the city layout with everything sort of hodge podge with really nice buildings mixed in with poor shacks. Even just the sidewalks reminded me of Thailand. I am sure people probably got tired of me saying, "wow! this is so much like thailand!!!" The only difference though is when I was in Thailand I was with people that could understand and speak a little of the language my whole first year. I didn't do much exploring on my own. Here the language has been a little harder for me to pick up, and I am frustrated all the time when something isn't clear, and I can't understand them or they can't understand me.