The afternoon of the first day

I spent the day in the office in Madang. It wasn't as miserable as it sounds because Team Albatross (I'm part of Team Awesome. I'm sure there's no need for further explaination) lives above the office so we could go up and recline and be "home." So, not bad.
Anyway! Internet all day is amazing. We planned the meals we'll be eating for the two weeks while we're in Samban before lunch. We had a late lunch today (when breakfast is a 6am, it needs to be BIG if lunch is late) of tiger noodles (think Ramen).
After lunch, I went to the butcher with a few interns and an office worker. There are foreign sodas here. "Well, duh," you say, but no! There's Fanta, but crazy flavors. I found a strawberry ice cream one. It was VERY sweet.
Afterwards we sat down to take our meal list and turn it into a grocery list. During our team building week in Dallas, there was a complaint that nothing was really stress provoking. This would have been a good activity for that. It was late in the day, before dinner, Lindy, our team leader, (being a very important person in the office) was in and out of our meeting, we didn't now some recipes, and had to guess. We found ourselves stepping over each other and tensions were high. But the job got down and we all left, perhaps mildly miffed, but very relieved that THAT was over. I think we apporpriately aimed our irritation at the event and not each other.
Now, I'm putting up this last post for the night before going upstairs to dine on the lovely cuisine Team Albatross prepared for us.
Good night!
(or good morning, as it's 4:13am there and 6:16pm here. So welcome to Thursday. Don't worry, it wasn't too bad.)