I hope this letter gets to you all in good health. The first month here has been challenging, it’s so weird here, but a good weird. It’s a great feeling being able to walk out of the house and feel safe. Sitting here now thinking about living in a communist country is very hard. Little luxuries like being able to buy toilet paper and other house hold items we take for granite is nearly impossible. Here is so free. As I’m writing this I am sitting in my apartment watching TV, and guess what there’s over 100 channels I was blown away. I was on the train today and saw this huge auto mall. I had never seen so many cars in so many different colors I had to go look! Cars here are much cheaper, once I save enough money here working as a welder I will buy one. Get this they say they don’t have to take off the window wipers here at night; apparently people aren’t worried they are going to get taken. I started my new job here about 3 weeks ago, I’m glad they taught me so much back home it sure paid off. The head man likes me a lot and said that I can go far and make lots of money here with this job. I wish you could come here it’s so big and open; the mountains are amazing and go on for kilometers. It’s hard leaving all my family back home, but it is very hard to live there I miss you all so much and I hope that soon you will all come over here I just need to make enough money and then we can all live safe here!
