I need to find those earplugs I packed and quick!!!

Hello to all my fellow readers! What a day it has been. Yesterday afternoon Natasha (my roommate) arrived @ about 2:30...she is SUPER cool! At first she was a bit quite but now that she has warmed up we are getting along GREAT! She is about my age and really funny! Ray did a great job matching us up with people he thought we would do well with. amy and Ava are both under 30 and are from D.C., and Natasha and I are about the same age and have traveled a lot. Fleda is a bit odd and has her own room (good call ray!!!) She's a bit annoying and all of us are already ready for her to be quiet!!! LAst night at dinner I got to hear all about her many, and I mean many diet restrictions. She can't eat cheese, she can't have dairy, she can't eat gluten, and then I tuned her out! And she will not just pick through it and pick out the stuff she can't eat... poor Ray has his hands full with her!!!

We had our Habitat orientation last night with a projector screen made of white sheets :) The director of Habitat india was there and he shared a lot of great info with us. Did you know that in India a child dies every two minutes because of poor sanitation?!?!?!?! We also got to meet our host "Josh". He is a Social Worker who has only been with Habitat for 3 months. Before that he was working with World Vision after getting his masters degree in England the same year I got mine! After that we had dinner... it was amazing! YUMMY!!!!!

Natasha and I headed to bed early since we were bothexhausted. I think the jetlag has been worse because I have been just sitting around for two days. It's MUcH better to just jump right into the build! We talked a bit (and vented about Fleda) and then went to bed probably around 9pm. I had trouble falling asleep... probably took about an hour. At 10:30 our doorbell rang... We were so disoriented. I looked at my watch and was like "is it morning, did we oversleep?!?!" I get to the door and one of the bellboys are there and says "oh, I am so sorry miss." I get back in bed and Natasha was like "damn, I had just fallen asleep." I fell back asleep and had the weirdest dreams ever!!! I can't share them because I don't remember them but holy crap batman... weird! Thank you malarone! :) I awoke @ 12:30 and there was a band playing outside... it was a wedding procession. At 2:30 both Natasha and I awoke to a pack of dogs howling outside our window. At 4:30 we both awoke again to noise out in the hallway. At 6:20 we both woke up again to another pigeon fight outside on our air conditioner. I am going to sleep like a baby tonight!!!!!

Ok, it's time to go eat dinner... I can't wait to tell you all about the amazing first day of the build! I am already in love with all the adorable children and eventhough it is in a really rough area... Bawana is amazing... there is sewage in the streets and smells terrible but the people walk by in the most beautiful sari's I have ever seen!!!!! We saw a fight, a goat wearing a Calvin Klein sweater (all the goats were sporting some type of outerwear), and Josh wearing a onesie (all the Saudi Arabia team members are wearing them)... hilarious! More later!