Home Base!

I am now at my home base! Hello Iwakuni! I am living at a Marine Corps Air Station and everyone is super nice. I am approximately 600 miles southwest of Tokyo. MCAS Iwakuni is home to approximately half of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing that is headquartered on Okinawa, elements of the 3rd Force Service Support Group, Fleet Air Wing 31 of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force, and other units of JMSDF. At present the station has about 15,000 personnel, including Japanese national employees.

I have internet in my apartment but it is AWFUL. Seriously I think dialup at my dad's in the country was faster! However, I did use skype yesterday to call (not see) my parents and it worked well..........surprise surprise! However, uploading pics and paying bills is a different story!

My boxes are all here!!! However, one looked like it went thru a few rounds with a sumo! My last box got here today too (thank you Megan!!). I was walking home from the post office (about 1/2 mile) and two random people stopped me to ask me if I needed a ride! So nice!! O yes I definitely overpacked.

As many of you know (wait who am I kidding noone is reading this!) I am addicted to Starbucks........nope no Starbucks on base. They have Seattles Best and let me tell you, so not the same thing!! For a sup rise for all: Tokyo had Starbucks everywhere and I only went once and it wasn't until Wednesday! Hey that is a mini miracle for me.

I am also getting used to TV here. Armed Forces Network (AFN) carries all the shows and it just pulls shows from different stations and some of them are behind seasons and I haven't figured out quite the rhyme or reason of how it works! The weird thing is we don't have your typical commercials, o how I miss my Mini Wheats commercials, instead we have military commercials. This includes manners in Japan, Japanese language, and different military code of conduct commercials. They can be quite amusing!

Here is for hoping that my internet is better in Sasebo (so I can actually post something and not want to throw the wireless modem out the window!). So hopefully pictures will be coming soon!