Initial Impressions

Finished my first work day. The jet lag really hit me around 11am and the rest of the day was a struggle, since it was just one long meeting. But I'm home now, and just getting settled before going out to try out "The Lime" restaurant near where I live. It's supposed to have good local food, so I'm excited! I haven't had any of the local stuff since I got here (went to Subway for lunch today :P).

Since I'm hungry and it's getting late (it's 4 hours ahead of Vancouver, so it's already 7:30pm) I'm going to jot down a few quick impressions.

1. St. Lucians like their drinks SWEET. I bought some dark beer last night and it was like drinking straight syrup. I took two sips and poured the rest down the drain. Then I tried to wash it down with a little orange juice I got out the grocery store and THAT was sickly sweet, so then I figured "screw it" and tried out the rum I had also picked up that is advertised all over the island. I think you know how that went. And today at the office I tried some coffee...
2. License plates seem to be put together with what ever paint/stencil/piece of metal you have on hand at the time.
3. Watching the local weather channel right now, and the weather guy has a puppet parrot on his hand.
4. The sun goes down here at 6:30 pretty much on the dot. It goes from "bright" to "pitch black" in about the span of 10 minutes. My apartment is at the end of some very dark gravel roads, so I stumbled home today after taking too long at the grocery store.
   
5. Most places are airconditioned inside. Hurray!
6. There's an Irish pub down the street. I don't think I've ever been in a city outside of Canada without it's own Irish pub :).
7. "Guke" is a slang term in St. Lucia, but no one will tell me what it means....
   

That's all for now, off to taste some local St. Lucia food.