28 May - Note to the Family

Hello to everyone back home. It has taken until today for me to get Internet access. Sorry about that.

My other difficulty is there is only to places on the ship I can get strong enought connections to send and receive emails. The system is so slow it took 10 mins just to open the blog site.

Hope to get to you all every few days. It is an interesting life. Many stairs and many long hallways with twists and turns. We counted the other day. It is 85 stairs to get from the sleeping area to the dining hall. They said when you do a complete up and down of the stairs 6 times it is 1 mile. Legs are getting strong. The sleeping area has the lights out from 10am till 6pm do the night people can sleep. Since the lockers with my stuff is in the same area I have to use a flashlight to see to open the combination locks. There is no sitting or talking in there during that time.

Right now I get up at 4:30 or 5, get dressed and eat about 6:30. I need to report at my department at 7:30, which in navy time it means you be there at least 15 min early. Mormon standard time does not work here! I have met a lot of wonderful people so far and have already given a talk in our 1st sacrament meeting.

I will try and keep you posted. If not, contact my family to have the emails forwarded to you. Thanks for everyone's support!

Love, Caroline