Busy Weekend

Part of the walk to school

View from outside the economics building (where I've been hiding away to get wireless)

Our apartments from the hill behind them

I've been here for about 4 days now and I'm starting to get settled in. I signed up for classes: beginner fijian, invertebrate zoology (!), comparative animal physiology and plant physiology. Some of these overlap (when you sign up for courses it doesn't tell you what time they meet, so you can't really plan out your schedule), so I still have to figure that out before tomorrow. Classes also don't meet at the same time for a couple days, for example, one of my classes meets at 10am wednesdays and 4pm fridays. So that should make remembering my schedule a bit complicated. I've gone grocery shopping a couple of times and it's becoming apparent that I really can't buy too many imported things because they're hideously expensive. Unfortunately not too much stuff is made here, so maybe I'll just be living off of fruit and vegetables for the rest of the semester. Also I'm sick of eating lamb...it seems like it's the most available source of meat here, and I didn't like it much to begin with, and now that I've had it a few times in the last few days I'm definitely not warming up to it. Blah.

It's been rainy this weekend, which is actually not that bad since it clears out some of the humidity and makes it bearable to walk around outside. I'm still very grateful for our air conditioning in the house, though. There are giant fruit bats that fly around during the daytime and mongoose (mongeese?) that are about as abundant as squirrels are back home. This morning I found cockroaches under the sink. We went to a resort yesterday to hang out by the pool/beach, but it was rainy and cloudy for most of the time which kind of sucked. The sun came out for a little while so I sat out by the pool, and even though I put on sunscreen I know have a painful sunburn that will make me miserable for the next few days. I also saw a hermit crab on the beach, which I got all excited about since I haven't seen a hermit crab before, other than in pet shops.

I've taken a lot of pictures, but I haven't had the chance to upload them to my computer yet, so those will have to wait for a later post. We are supposed to get internet in our apartment tomorrow, which I am excited about because I'm feeling homesick and I'll really enjoy not having to walk to campus in order to check my email...