Every day now I light up my skype at about 6:30 a.m. Matt is usually there and playing with his computer just before bed. If you want to know what time it is there just add 3 hours to the time here and think opposite. In other words 6:30 a.m. here is really 9:30 p.m. there. Remember too that they are a day ahead of us. If you are going to bed at 11:00p.m. on Wednesday here, add 3 hours which give you 2:00. That is 2:00 p.m. Thursday there.
So what I have gathered is that the island is as paradasaic as we can imagine. The people are super friendly but their stand of living is well below ours. That has nothing to do with their happiness however. The project is going along well and on schedule. The food is good and definitely above the standard of the locals. While they are working hard they also have a lot of fun too. Matt is making some buddies for life. He looks like he is putting on weight although that may just be the wide angle lens in his camera. He knows of a bank there where he is thinking of opening an account. There is an ATM there too. I am not sure about restaurants yet. He does receive email just like always but his iPhone is as useless as cufflinks to a panda.
I hope you are following his blog at catcherinthekosrae.blogspot.com
Looking forward to Sunday when we will have Pizza, some specialty salads and cold beer, and talk to Matt before he goes to morning worship.
Remember the time for the call is 3:40 p.m. our time right here.
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