The first couple of days

Hello,

So here we are (alice and i) in our little office which we share with Ralph and Dr Hien..... We are sharing a computer, not all of us obviously that would be tricky, but alice and i which is actually extremy tricky! Alice does the mouse and i do the typing and short cuts on the keyboard. She is awful because the mouse doesnt work and zooms all over the screen in nobodies control, i am however THE worst i keep doing things and thinking ive done them to find nothing on the screen has changed. I was not made for working on a computer , actually neither of us we keep disolving into peels of laughter and yesterday uncontrollable hysterics, im sure that we are utterly disturbing their work! Yesterday Tim the jungle man, brought alice and i a hand of bananas, so we finished the day in the office with that, very nice.
Now to the flat........
Well Patrick the human Res guy very kindy (presumably because of our age) gave us a flat in extremly close proximity (above) three nightclubs and an all night restaurant! this means we have to go to bed early to get in as many hours before 1-30 as we can, this way when the booming tunes start, and the bedroom starts vibrating we at least feel a little refreshed, and less resentful of being woken, and kept awake for about 4 hours on the first night, which was the worst. We now have a fully furnished house, equiped with everything from blender and a knife ladden chopping board, (which im sure will come in extremely handy both with food preperation and when we have an argument!) a fridge and a bizarre washing machine which we used last night (prehaps why we overslept this morning!). We also have two beds now! Yippee! Except i still found Alice crawling sheepishly back into mine (admitidely the double) at 2/3ish this morning....maybe because she was cold (yes it is extremely hot but we have aircon and her bed is below it, plus although we got delivery of the bed it is lacking any form of covers. although it did come with some exceptional cool childish sheets, which is prehaps why alice wanted to sleep on it?!), but never the less outrageous! and in my defense of having the double, shes too short to warant all that space......
So the first night, typically the hardest one, but in a special way for us! At 1-30 the booming tunes started and we were in no way prepared for that, so at some point i got bored of lying in bed making conversation and so i went to the loo, bad mistake, it was flodded! The cistern was overflowing but to begin with i was more than alittle worried about alices bathroom habits and whether i was going to manage 6months of them! We eventually fixed it with our new washing line and a call home to england (the only excellent thing about different time zones!). Also in the morning when we went to mop up the puddle it had all evaporated this means that alice and i are now inhaling loo water everytime we breath....very pleasant! Alice also developed a habit that night of walking into cupboards and walls with out her glasses on.........
Over all its excellent the weather isn't too rainy although last night we had a tropical storm whilst eating lobster, and an oyster omlette in a food hall on top of a carpark! We've been eating like kings. Yesterday for break(fats) we tryed Laksa a spicy noddle soup with meat and fish, absolutly bulging with chili (there was a lot of sniffing around the table, and a little bit of crying from alice...but we ignored her!). We eat alot of the time in food halls. this is a large space or open air room owned by some one, they supply the drinks and then lots of people with food carts rent spaces, so there are huge selections of food to choose from inside them, we've had koolo mee (another noodely speciality, which had liver and somefishy rondthing that was hollow in the middle...i dearly hope it wasnt and eyeball) and pig leg, where we got the skin (not hard and crunchy but soft and tender, and sqidgy) also....very good!
The people out here are planning our trips to the jungle and excursions its all getting very exciting! Oh and aparently you have to wear long pants in the jungle! i think they meant trousers but you never know!
More later, we should do some shared computer work.....!

Lots and lots of love bags
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P.S make sure granny sees this...........