So after way too much time in airports/airplanes/hotels/buses/taxis, I am finally in Fiji. I have a beautiful apartment (nice and big, classy islandy wicker furniture, and most importantly AC in every room) and I have met a few of the other American students that are here. I got in Wednesday afternoon and after getting settled went with a group of people to go check out the downtown Suva area just by wandering around...it's very interesting. The buses are super cheap, have no windows, and play really up to date US pop hits except remixed with reggae beats to make it appropriate for an island. They also only have a few scheduled stops, but mostly just stop for people on the side of the road (wherever you are) and you pull a wire to make the bus stop anywhere you want. Very different.
We have geckos in our apartment that squeak loudly, and so far I've only seen little ground spiders, but my roommates assure me that there are massive ones around here so I'll wait until my first encounter with one of those critters. I woke up this morning to the sound of wild dogs fighting and parrots squawking, which was soothing. Today I registered for classes and got my computer configured to the internet here - I can only get wireless in a few places for now, but starting on Monday (once classes start) we get wireless in our apartment, which is amazing. Lots of students are wandering around campus to get a lot of stuff done before the start of school...I am sure there are a lot of things that I have left to do in the next couple days but for now I'm jet lagged and hot and tired. It is oppressively humid here, but I can't complain given how Massachusetts has been snowed on pretty much constantly for the last month or so. I will take pictures over the next few days and post them, but I've got too much stuff to get settled with classes starting and everything so I might suck at updating for a while. I'm glad I'm here finally.
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