First Day in a New Country

Today is my first day in a new country. I arrived late last night and got into the country pretty easily - I was the only one on the foreign passengers immigration line so that made it quick. I was only slowed down because the lady at the desk shouted out something that I can only imagine was "hey guys look, I have an American over here" and a bunch of other people came to look at my passport. Once again I'm in a country where I don't really blend in. People kept coming up to me in the streets to say "hello". That's always fun except I learned in China that often when young people came up to me and said "hello, how are you?" and I said "good, you?" they had no idea what I was saying. I had to answer the way they learned it in school and say "I am fine thank you, how are you?" It seems to be the same thing here! It also makes me feel a bit like a freak of nature - everyone go check out the american.




I flew into a city further in the south of the country and I'll be working my way north over the next week. Today I had the chance to explore this city. I thought I might be able to find a nice glass of wine here but apparently that's not the case. I do however have an overwhelming urge to watch "Dead Poet's Society" It was 45 degrees out today and I think I could have gotten away with packing less sunscreen than I did. Tomorrow will be a long day with a long drive and a lot of stops at some of the most famous places in this country.



One downer that I was kind of expecting is that Facebook and my blog site are blocked in this country. Fortunately my email address works so my brother is going to help post them and my sister is going to help share the updates on Facebook so feel free to continue guessing where I am and I'll get some updates of your guesses from my sister. You can also drop me an email at kerrio98@aol.com