First Day on the Island

Well it has been a long day. I left Miami at 6:00 a.m and arrived in Puerto Rico for my connecting flight, then left San Juan and arrived in Dominica around 2:00 p.m. I must say when the pilot was in the process of landing it was quite an experience. The turbulence was crazy disturbing, and everyone on the plane looked pretty nervous while the pilot made a U turn over the island in an attempt to line the plane up with the runway. It looked like the tree line was maybe 20 feet away at the most from the tip of the wing, well that is how close it looked anyway. The trip from the airport to the school was not as bad as I thought it would be; even thought it was like a fifty minute journey. I got all settled into my new apartment and something unexpected has happened already. I brought down a surge protector and attempted to plug it in, and all of a sudden it made this loud crackling noise and a funny burning smell filled the entire room.I still cannot figure out what the heck happened.I'll talk to the land lord tomorrow and find out what happened. Funny thing is I am writing this entry off the battery power on my laptop because I don't want to risk plugging it in the outlet.