My initial reaction

Initial reaction –

                Getting off of the plane of the plane and driving down to our “house” was, to be honest, a bit of a disappointment.   I really didn’t feel like I was in another country, instead I felt like I was in a poor, southern city.  I expected this beautiful untouched land, but instead I saw a loud, busy road and a Pizza Hut.  I really didn’t feel as if I had left home.  But then I woke up the next morning and saw the sun rising over the ocean and I knew I was in paradise.  I had never seen water so blue and all the blended colors in the sky.  It was surreal.  Every morning for the three weeks of orientations I would wake up at 6 and jog along the ocean while watching the sunrise.  It really is everything I expected and more.  This is paradise.