First fews Days

Our first few days in Okinawa have been pretty uneventful. Chad went to meet the people he'll be working with on Friday morning. Someone from his shop came to pick up later in the day to give us a tour of the base. He also took us to the Commissary so that we could buy some groceries. We have no car right now and aren't able to get one until we get our driver license over here. To get our license, all we have to do is take a written test, that I have heard is pretty easy. I believe we take that test on Wednesday at the Newcomer's briefing, so hopefully by the end of the week we'll have a new set of wheels! I hope we also have a house by the end of this week or at least have a move in date. Living in a hotel with no car is getting old pretty quickly!

We are in walking distance of the BX, so we went there on Friday to get cellphones. We both ended up getting iPhones. We were both droid users before so we're trying to get used to the iPhone! The BX here is huge! It is 2 stories tall; on the bottom level there is a food court (Burger King, Taco Bell, Baskin Robbins, Subway, and some other places), a bunch of Japanese vendors, and other stores. Take the escalator upstairs and you enter the actual BX. It's pretty cool. We've been told that if you see something that you want, to buy it right then. If you wait, it won't be there when you come back to get it!

 

Other than that, we haven't been doing much. We are trying to get adjusted to the time change. Yesterday we were wide awake at 3AM! We took a nap at about 4PM and set an alarm to wake up at 7PM, otherwise we would of slept all night. In order to get our body used to the time difference, we dragged our bodies out of bed and went to dinner at Chilis on base. It wasn't that bad of a walk from our hotel but it was still a hike! 

I can't wait until we have a car so we can actually go see things! I'm kind of scared to drive on the other side of the road here. I can totally see me turning into the wrong lane!