The first full day was awesome.  School here is pretty intense, but I love it and learned so much in just one day.  Today I woke up at 530 (because the sun rises at 415 here… crazy) and I went on a run.  Its so pretty here and there is a road that goes right along the ocean.  There are no cars on this island- everyone travels by bike or boat.  Its so different.  We had class today from 9 to 12.  I have already learned so much.  We got a break and they gave us Cokes and we drank cokes under our palapa.  We ate lunch and then did team builing stuff, which is not my favorite, but I had a good attitude ;)  for school we have to read 4 book and do a book report on all of them and we have to read the entire bible, so its going to be a really intense 3 months, but there is nothing I would rather do than read on the ocean!  Today we were done at 2, and me and 2 other girls went snorkeling.  We can literally swim out right from our beach to a beautiful coral reef and it goes on forever.  We saw sea turtles, blow fish, starfish were everywhere, konk, and a million different types of fish.  It was BEAUTIFUL.  We snorkeled for about an hour then in our swim suits and bare feet we walked to a grocery store down the street from us.  It was so cute and about the size of my room at home.  The people here are so nice.  After that I studied until dinner and for dinner we ate mac and cheese.  The food here is GREAT but I try and stuff my self at meals because we only get 3 meals a day and we cant eat food in the kitchen when its not meal time, so there are no snacks.  But the food is so good.

I am loving my time here so far!  The people I am here with are great and from EVERYWHERE.  One person did not know where dallas was, so its weird saying I’m from Texas and not dallas.