Getting Situated

29JUN2011 0100 hours

The flight over wasn’t too bad. The five hour trip from SF to DC was pretty packed, but from DC to Kuwait was pretty empty. They only served two meals during the 13 hour flight! Thank goodness Sam Tsuruoka gave me some snacks before I left.

The dude in front of me was farting like crazy, at least ten times! Sick.

Walking through the Kuwaiti airport was definitely a new experience. Many of the locals dressed from head to toe in that stuff you only really see on tv, or in the states here and there. To see a majority of the people wearing that stuff was different. I’ve always flown straight onto military bases in the middle easy, so I’ve never been around too many locals. I won’t lie I was a little uneasy being around them initially, likely because I’m used to being on my toes whenever I land in the desert. Traveling alone out here is also a first so that added to my discomfort.

I was met by a manager of the company at a coffee shop in the airport. He took one of my bags and as we walked to the parking lot we were nearly ran over. A female was pulling out slowly while looking to her right, and suddenly accelerated without checking the FRONT of the car. She was to the left of us. I think we would have been ran over if I didn’t stop while my manager kept walking, because she saw me out of the corner of her left eye. Had I kept walking she wouldn’t have seen anything at all. WHEW! On the first day though? That would’ve sucked!

We stopped by the grocery store while enroute to the living area. I dropped a couple things in the basket and circled the store a couple times looking for eggs. I asked my manager where the eggs were. He pointed and said “RIGHT THERE!”

“Oh, I thought they would be refrigerated.”

“Not over here! They don’t refrigerate eggs over here.”

“Ooohh”

I still bought the eggs, but they are being refrigerated now.

I met my roomies and they are both around my age and pretty chill so far. One of them looked hapa so I asked him, “Are you hapa?”

He said, “No, I’m half Korean half white”

That still counts as hapa, right?

We live in a three bedroom apartment with a kitchen and living room area. We each have our own bathroom as well. The wifi is broken right now but we are getting a new router tomorrow.

I walked over to the offices and received all my uniforms, not too shabby. They were having a monthly BBQ as well so I lucked out on getting in today.

I don’t have a camera right now but will post pictures after a couple pay days. This place is SICK! But I haven’t been to work yet so we’ll so how I’m feelin after that.

Daddy Tak