Another week had started... Had one of my more better days off. Spent most of it sitting on the deck of the oasis taking pictures of the air craft flying by.

The day ended with staying up to the wee hours trying my best to get a chat going with Will laptop at Kes and Menkens household Party... It was so Frustrating... I get little 2 minute snippets of audio from there end, my end would not send at all. It was truly nice to here there voices even for those little windows. The internet limitation here did not favor a real connection and had to give up … Beginning to worry I was greatly damaging Wills ability to enjoy the party. It's only 2 and half months.

There is a little voice of insecurity in my head when I'm here that when returning that some permanent damage will have been done to my personality that cause other to cringe at my presents. The voice is easily gagged with past experience from my vacations that this darkness shakes off like the dust. It only exists as a temporary adaption to my surroundings.

Tonight was a hour lesson with the maestro with saber. That went well but going to have problem remembering the positions by the terms they use and the funky scoring system used in competitive fencing.