In Hawai'i

So, it has been a while, but only because I have been super busy. In the past week, I have said goodbye to my friends, packed up my room, and have flown a quarter of the way around the world to Hawai'i.

I have discovered that I do not enjoy flying. It does not have to do with the fact that I watched Flight before leaving or with the Asiana plane that recently crashed. I already had a fear of driving so being in an airplane made things about ten times worse. Every time we hit a bit of turbulence, I braced myself for impact. The people next to me probably thought I was psychotic.

Once we landed in O'ahu, I fell in love. People are not joking when they say Hawai'i is beautiful. It just feels alive. Everything is green and the air is clean and light. It is a 180 from the forests I am used to seeing everyday.

Alrightly, that's my cheesy paragraph about this place. I will not make a habit of it.

I will say, I knew I picked the right place to go to college before I even left the airport. All of the signs were printed in English and again in Japanese.

Today I moved in to a small, but very nice, apartment for my two summer classes. When Fall begins, I will be shoved with other Freshman into community halls with shared bathrooms. Serious downgrade. I feel incredibly young. I am an incoming Freshmen and my roommates are all in their 20's. One is from Japan. I can hear her speaking on the phone right now. I think she's talking about me. It was something about her first day and hiragana; we talked about reading hiragana earlier. I am happy that I can actually understand her accent when she speaks Japanese. There are some people who speak it down here and I have no idea what they are trying to tell me.

Oh well. More to learn!

I am so tired. I apologize in advance if none of this makes sense. I am six hours ahead of the normal time here. Back in Georgia, I would have be asleep. Very much sleep. Sound asleep. Dead to the world.

Help me.

Goodnight.