Driving into El Paso that first night seeing a billion lights spread out for what looked like a billion miles was kind of overwhelming. It helped a lot to go straight to Noah's great aunt and uncle's house to meet them and see his cousin Lety (who we're staying with and I'd already met). Nice to see friendly and familiar faces straight away and to have that initial apprehension quelled. People seem nice around here though from what I can tell.
I haven't seen all that much of the city yet or experienced a whole lot as we've been trying to square things away with finding a place to live and we only have one car right now. However, I think I can say with some confidence that I like it here. Right now the weather's just fine--feels like spring. I know it's gonna get hot but I'll learn to deal. Interested to see what heat without humidity is like. Oh and I did experience a dust storm already--weird to see a brown sky, hah. Really didn't think it was that bad as I wasn't out walking in it.
We found a house the second day we were here which is lucky and kind of crazy! We found one we liked and went to fill out the applications, got approved and decided to jump on it since there were other people who had already taken applications but hadn't returned them yet. I was a little iffy at getting one so soon without looking much but Noah pointed out that it had everything we wanted and was in the part of town we wanted so--why not? Pictures sometime soon. It's pretty adorable and I can't wait for us to be able to make it our own for the time we're in El Paso.
Speaking of pictures, I can't wait til I get around the city more to start snapping away! Got a couple of rolls to develop once I get some chemicals and a couple developing tanks. Oh also, the sound post on my violin came loose yesterday, which won't mean much to anyone probably but I'm kinda bummed. I wanted to start playing again soon. Now I have to wait til I can take it in and get it fixed ::le sigh:: oh well. At least it's fixable.
