i drink my water when it rains

oh hi!
i am here, i guess. and it is pretty incredible. i don't have internet access, really, for the next few weeks, but here is a brief update. kosrae exists. it is either a real thing, or nothing else is. it is pretty much exactly how you would imagine a 20 square mile tropical island in the middle of the south pacific. it is half rainforest and half coast. there are frogs everywhere. it rains everyday, and that is the drinking water. everyone is kind and knows everything about everyone, most people are happy, there are coconuts everywhere, the best way to open one is with a machete, papayas are in fact delicious, sharks don't bite, flowers are as big as your face, all stores carry spam, and there is one road.
school starts in two weeks, so until then it's learning how to teach and learning about the island. highlights have included a 4-hour barefoot hike (read: trudge through the mud) into tropical rainforest and snorkeling among coral and stingrays and more fish than could possibly exist. i haven't seen so many different forms of life since playing the animal planet computer game when i was six years old. woo, biodiversity.
send me your address and i will write you a letter and if you want a postcard then you get one of those too.
photos as soon as i can get internet on my computer.
thanks fo readin!
love,
sam

because I don't like goodbyes:

Hello! This is my online persona. The idea is that I will blog about my upcoming 11 months in Kosrae, Micronesia. I am unsure as to how this will turn out, given that I don't like it when people read what I write (go away), but oh well, maybe I will just post photos. Here is something like a photo, in that it is a map.



Good thing I am teaching geography.

Here is a more accessible photo. I will be living on this island within an island.


This is my mailing address.

c/o WorldTeach
P.O. Box 419
Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia (FM)
96944

Write me!

- Sam