Moved into our apartment yesterday! Going from the solitude of the ranch at night to the noisy business of the street we live above is unbelievable. The buses(that term is used loosely) are going all night and there is a bus stop just outside our apartment. Everyone honks when they are going to do anything on the road - pull in front of you, stop in the middle of the road, want you to move out of their way, when someone is saundering across the road, etc. Someone is always standing in the doorway waving, for what reason I don't know! Then the taxis also pull up at the bus stop. They are the most beat up cars on the road, end the smallest but always manage to put 6 or more people in the back seat and these are little cars. Then there are the men who just hang around on the sidewalks doing heaven knows what but yelling out something every so often. Then of course you have the police who always have their sirens going but we have never seen them actually stop anyone That is probably because they can't get through the cars! Scott says its like the teens driving Washington BLVD in Ogden as the cars drive by with their loud speakers on blasting music. I didn't sleep all night but Scott got a few hours of rest. The sad thing is the earplugs I brought don't change things at all! It is very colorful here. Beautiful trees and lots of greenry. Buildings of many colors.
Tomorrow is our first day of church with the dominican people because we went to the MTC here last week. We are excited for that!
Today was a day of frustration as we have a car to drive but have no idea how to get anywhere.
We tried to get money out of the ATM at the bank but the debit cards will not work in them and that is all we brought. Everyone says the best thing to do is bring checks and have the bank cash them.
Then we went to find a WalMart type store only to get lost on these itsy-bitsy streets. We have a great missionary couple living in these apartments - the Etraldes. We did get a thing called the fly box to get internet here. You plug it into any outlet and you can get internet so that is nice for us as we will be traveling alot to places where there is no normal internet access.
One of the older elders here is great at programing GPS systems so we now have that to find the many, many churches in the East and the West missions ( the missions we are starting with). We will probably spend most of our time lost!
After a sporadic warm and cold shower we are ready for a night's rest. It does sound a little quieter tonight!
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