Monday, January 24, 2011

My Monday Outing & weekend review

Well I have been here for 10 days now and it actually seems much longer than that!  I know that I HAVE to find activities and things to do here to pass my time otherwise I will go crazy.  I spent the first week learning the area and taking daily walks, but that got old after 5 days.  There is a foreigners club here but I have been a little nervous about going to any of the activities by myself.  I knew it would be fine, but I just have to get over my nervousness of being the new person. 

On Sunday, I decided to attend the local foreigners church and thought I could possibly meet a few people there.  Tommy had to work 1/2 Sunday, so I was on my own and decide to just go for it.  Everyone was very nice and friendly.  And I will probably go back when Tommy is working.  In February he will be working Monday through Saturday so I am sure that one free day we have we will try to explore as much as possible. 

This Sunday afternoon we only had about 2 hours of daylight to explore.  We got in the car and just started driving.  Tommy showed me more of the shipyard where he works.  I wish that we could take more pictures for everyone to see because it is so impressive.  It is like nothing I have every seen before.  The ships there are HUGE!!  And the equipment they use to build, WOW~!  After the ship yard we found a few other towns that are every few miles in these coves.  You can see the pictures in the blog post yesterday.  These must be weekend spots or places where wealthy people live.  The homes are much larger and nicer.  We plan to go back when it warms up and maybe we can enjoy the beach.  However the beach was small so we probably have to get there early.

So today, I actually did another thing out of my comfort zone and went to a ladies coffee meeting that is put together through the foreigners club.  Again, I was nervous but decided I had to meet some people!  It turned out to be great and everyone was so welcoming.  They are all ladies that have husbands working in the ship yard.  The ladies were from all over, Finland, Sweden, Ukraine, and the US.  There is another coffee meeting on Wednesday that supposedly has more people.  It was great to meet and discuss things about our experiences here.  They even had a suggestion about getting our showers hotter here and thank goodness because these lukewarm showers just aren't cutting it!  I am looking forward to Wednesday and am thankful for the event!  I know it will make me happy to have some relationships here which will make Tommy happier as well.  Oh, and the ladies said I could volunteer at the international school here so I will be it on my todo list!

Hope everyone in the US has a Happy Monday!

Love-Shawn AKA Turtle if you haven't noticed Tommy's comments!

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