Hi!
I cannot remember if I gave Casey credit for the name and the title of this post but she deserves it. I've gotten multiple compliments...
Right now I am sitting at a bar in the city at some restaurant in a shopping area. The glass of wine I have is A$17. Even with the exchange rate it still hurts a bit. Given that today is my first day off I see no problem spending the day getting sloshed. Calm down, Mom. I'm not that serious. (Yes I am, Jay.)
It's a cloudy day today and the Extrems (family's last name. shiny presents to whoever makes up the best nickname for them) went to the fish market and to play with the kids. I decided to go into town and upload some pictures so hopefully you will be able to go to facebook and see all my pictures from Fiji and the trip so far. Maybe even some videos.
So yesterday Taylor stayed home from school because of a cough but we did walk up to the school to participate in the book parade. All the children dressed up as their favorite character and pranced around. It was so cute. Taylor went as Katelyn the Royal Wedding Fairy. There were tons of Harry Potters and Luke Skywalkers. Ooo and fyi they refer to them as first years and year 2, year 3, etc, which I thought they only did in Hogwarts! Turns out it's a thing. not grades but years...
Other random things I have noticed:
*23 years of walking to the right of oncoming pedestrians is ruining my life here. Everytime I go to avoid someone they turn the same direction I do because they are used to walking and driving on the left side. It is very awkward. Eventually we meet face to face having gone as far as we could to the right.
*Every Asian I see I hope it's communitychannel or Hazel or Esther from Renaissance. So far I am 0 for 19356.
*No one calls it ketchup, it's tomato sauce.
*Jay and Ravin- there are SO many Alfa Romeos here it is unbelievable. I have taken many pictures and think about you both every time I see one. Took a pic of a Maserati the other day in honor of Mama.
*I'm walking a lot which is nice since I am making zero effort to exercise
Going to try to insert a video here from Fiji. hopefully you will be able to see it. If anyone wants to leave comments try leaving it under your gmail account if you do not have one of the other ones listed. Love you guys!
hahahah, it's good to hear that there are some asians in your area though! actually, my cousins are from australia (i'm not sure which city), but they moved to america about 6 years ago, so you would have never known them =/ sad to say, one of my cousins was determined to LOSE her australian accent (i KNOW)..which she successfully did so the past couple of years *sigh* but that's awesome, i'm learning lots of new things :)
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