Settled In

I have arrived in beautiful Taji.  Everything is the same color, brown.  I have never seen so much mud in my entire life.  Apparently, it doesn't rain often, but the mud is around for awhile this time of year.  Nicoleta, my rommate since Ft. Benning, GA and I are still together.  We have managed to make our approximately 9ft by 15 ft room homey.  After all of the carrying around suitcases and not knowing when we would leave, it was nice to finally unpack.  We stayed up fairly late the first night unpacking and trying to make this place more like home.  We have since sweet talked our way into having a small fridge and "acquired" a table from elsewhere on base.  It isn't so bad.  We live in the middle room of a 3 room trailer called a chu.  Yes, it does sort of sound like a sneeze.  We have 2 guys on either side of us and 5 across the the breezeway so we are well protected.  We have a nice little walk to get to the "cadillac."  I have yet to figure out why they call the restroom chu the cadillac.  We are pretty centralized and have everything we need within walking distance.  It is great.  I happen to have the day off tomorrow so I will write more about the trip here and my actual job then.