It's Friday, 7:46 in the morning, and we've been up for about 2.5 hours. It's safe to say that the jet lag hasn't gone away just yet. The first week has been crazy busy, but so much fun. Tuesday was our nap day.. like I said in my previous post, we napped for 6 hours, woke up and went to the food court, then went back to bed. Arthur woke me up at 2AM that morning because he couldn't sleep any longer... and from that time until we had to wake up at 6:30, we were in and out of sleep. We met Jacqueline (Current PenFed manager) at 7:30AM, toured the branch, and then got checked into our newcomers orientation. We learned a LOT there. The orientation lasted until about 4PM. Arthur and I both passed our license tests and now we can drive! After orientation, we went home for a little, then grabbed dinner and walked around the BX, and still feeling jet lagged, we headed back home and went to bed. Our wifi here has been pretty bad so Facetiming and Skyping our families has been a challenge.
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| Sunrise on base. Our temp housing is the building to the right! |
Thursday was our busiest day so far. We met Jacqueline early in the morning again. We needed to get CAC cards so we could be free to do anything on base, like shop at the commissary, BX, leave and come back on base, etc. We finally got those cards, and then we headed off base to look at Jacqueline's apartment because we are going to take it over when she leaves in January. It was ADORABLE. It is a 3 bedroom, pretty spacious and affordable (especially in comparison to other places off base). The area the apartment is in is so quaint and cute. It's a three minute walk to the sea wall, down the street from a scuba shop, cute little restaurants, and a japanese grocery store. Japan is one of the safest countries in the world, which makes living here even better. Easy to say, I love it here. After looking at her apartment, we got food at the little cafe down the street. We then went car shopping- so many cute cars. They are all super small and colorful so it's been fun shopping around for one. The rest of the day was spent making a dozen little stops all over base meeting different clients Arthur will work with. Our first week here has been so much fun already. It's beautiful here and we can't wait for our family and friends to start coming. That's it for now, but I'll post more updates later!!
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| Breakfast from the little cafe we went to :) |
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| The view from the Seawall by Jacqueline's Apartment |
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