Orientation Day 1

Holy cow!

Talk about disorganization! They must deliberately try to disorient all newcomers.

Everyone takes a shuttle to the processing center, shuttles leave from various hotels. But once you get to the processing center (basically a big building), there aren't any signs telling you where to go or what to expect. We eat first, then sit in a big room (about 500 folding chairs with narrow tables for writing notes) and get some information about the schedule for the week. The big news is that we have to catch a shuttle at 2:45 AM tomorrow in order to go through all the drug and medical screening. TWO FORTY FIVE A.M. Needless to say this post will be brief.

There are so many people who don't have a clue what they have gotten temselves into. Plus I have discovered a lot of foreigners, some of which cannot understand English too well. More on that later.

I shouldn't have anything to worry about for the medical testing but they say many people discover things that they themselves did not know.....like finding out that they are diabetic, or have HIV or other things. Needless to say, those kind of things will get you sent home.

I am just not looking forward to a long long long day.

Goodnight.