First 24 hours in South Carolina

- It's hot!
- Eleanor and I have been settling down, the rest of the students are coming in tomorrow and we will be assigned a room leader and a room!
- We went to Wal-mart and were amazed at how much stuff you can buy there! We got our food, sheets and stuff and then went to lunch.
- Everyone is dead polite, Ma'am or Sir. ("mehm / suyhr")
- Milk is called milk when it is in tea but apparently changes to "creamer" when you want it in your coffee.
- There are sharks at Myrtle Beach and apparently swim around at the end of the pier where lots of fishing goes on. The pier is 100m away. But apparently its fine. So here's hoping they are friendly sharks.
- Back to driving on the right side of the road, automatic cars! Not sure where I will be volunteering yet but I may need a driver's license so am applying for an international one.
- I say "fair enough" and "to be fair" alot. People notice.
- Our accents are "so cute!!!!1111"
- Brits say "em", Americans say "um"

It was a safe trip, we missed our connection because of a bag being misplaced, went back to drop it off, the brakes were then too hot and had to cool off, then we had to re-fuel and finally (2 hours later) we were off! The two hours were enough to make us miss our connection, but we got one 3 hours later and arrived safetly. Then we watched "Sherlock Holmes" with the team (because it's British!! aww how welcoming!). Today we had a Bible study and the focus was on how our hearts should be delighting in God's word and that is our prayer for this summer trip! Headed to the beach in the afternoon for some team events between the team leaders (everyone else arrives tomorrow) so the Summer Training Project begins officially tomorrow afternoon. Exciting times lie ahead...