My New Apartment

What a lovely breeze!

The big windows in the living room face East which also happens to be the direction the wind usually blows from. The slats under the windows let the breeze in to play and I am thoroughly enjoying it.

This is the new view from my desk (actually a papasan chair). Its a pretty quite street; few cars, mostly people riding bikes or walking dogs. Not sure what that white complex is at the top of the hill on the right but it might be the community college. Will find out this Sat. when I head that way with Carly to check out the local farmer's market. (Shout out to Elaine for hooking us up! Hope you're enjoying Sunny CA...but you should still come visit!)

I'm sharing the place with 2 other peeps although one of them is away for the majority of the time. Nick speaks 6 languages and teaches ESL at UH. Gone off to Australia for a bit. Casey is a cool chica with a stupendous handshake. Seriously, its the kind of grip that makes you say, "Golly!" (Well, maybe you'd say something cooler than that...stop laughing!) Maybe its all that Capoeira she does.

I'm excited to be much closer to the beach. Gonna head out tomorrow morning to see what conditions are like down in this area. Its close to where I took my first lesson, which is good and bad. From what I remember there were a lot of reefs... I'll just go where the other surfers are.

Also looking forward to being so close to Kapiolani Park. I've heard you can find pick-up soccer games pretty much every day. I'll put that theory to the test tonight. :-)

Speaking of soccer if you didn't catch the Euro 2008 tournament, you missed out. Some absolutely incredible matches. And this from someone who usually can't stand watching soccer. If you get the chance its well worth it to check out the highlights (or the entire games if they're available). Congrats to Spain for going undefeated throughout and beating Germany in the final. They really were the best team. Also have to point out the amazing job Turkey did to make it to the semi-finals. 4 times they came back from being down to win and advance. Twice in the final minutes of the match. In fact, most of the goals scored in the overall tournament came after the 76th minute of play. Exciting stuff!