Newly acquired knowledge:
1. Laundry and cooking require a risk management plan here. Note the sign clearly posted above our kitchenette stove top: 
Also note the warning on the lodge dryers:
Maybe I should just avoid cooking and laundering for now…
2. With my newly acquired iPhone, I can taunt my sister in Texas (who also has an iPhone) for free via iMessage. This makes me almost want to work out so I can send a vaunting text.
3. I can miss seven questions and still pass the driver’s license test for my SOFA license.
4. In Okinawa, you cannot test drive a vehicle before purchasing it from a dealer. We just put all the kids in it and rocked it back and forth to make sure we didn’t drag the bottom or fall over. Win!
5. Possibly the most important (for now): I now know which ONE clothes dryer of the SIX in the lodge will actually dry your clothes.(Providing you have a risk management plan in place, see #1) Fellow Westpac Lodge friends, I will trade my knowledge for Reese’s Pieces. Please deliver to room 420.
In other news, we should be getting a call Friday morning to view a house on Camp Kinser (South Okinawa). The lodge must have called and expedited our application, because the housing agent told me we were first on the list. Here’s hoping we have a house soon!
Here is a pic from our lodge window. If you can find four children to wrestle, whine, and stomp around you while you view it, you will have a good idea of the lodge view and experience: 
I was dying to know how many questions I missed! How did you find out how many? Praying that the house is a good one today! If not, we live in a 4 bedroom apartment with all American appliances and would love to have you here! Well, not with us of course….tee hee, but in one of the empty apartments! 🙂
At the newcomers brief, they grade them right in front of you– I was twitching with each one he marked wrong. Thanks for the prayers on the house! Will keep you posted!