First Days in Tucson

Hello again,

My roommate Claire and I made the mile bike ride to Starbucks to get some wifi.  Today marks our second full day in Tucson.  We're all still struggling with the jet lag a little bit.  In case some of you don't know, most of Arizona doesn't recognize daylight savings time, so relative to the East coast, we're three hours behind.  A lot of breakfast foods at 6am Tucson time.

When we got to our house on Friday night, we were greeted by our two community support members.  Julie is an FJV, and Jerry is just heavily involved in the Tucson community and loves JVC.  Julie made us an enchilada casserole, and Jerry brought over a cake.  After a restful night, Julie and Jerry took us around the city, making sure we knew where everything was.  They took us out to lunch in downtown Tucson.  It reminds me a lot of Burlington, VT. We had plans to go back downtown at night, but couldn't figure out the bus schedule.  Instead we watched the sun set over the Tucson mountains from our rooftop.  Awesome community bonding (Even though, lets be real, we didn't really need it. We're already awesome friends)

This morning Jerry came over with doughnuts from what he claimed to be "the best bakery in town." Anyone who knows me well knows that I have hated doughnuts since about the first grade, but these were AMAZING!! Today was a lot of errand running and some more cleaning.  Also, IT RAINED TODAY! Only a drizzle and only for a couple of minutes, but after the ridiculous heat, it was very welcomed.

Only two more free days before I start work, and I absolutely cannot wait.