Sweet Suriname!

So we are in suriname now! we got here sunday, and its really quite the city. It has some neat older architecture, 1 liter bottles of pargo bier (beer), and most people here are amazing with languages. The official language is dutch, then a lot of people also speak their native tounge, like hindi, javanese, chinese, and also a lot of people speak english on top of all that! Quite amazing people actually. You can tell we arn't in guyana anymore, the people hear are... a little more rounded... ah ha. and almost everyone has a car. The city has many little monuments, small parks, and a really neat waterfront where you can hang out and eat food of the semi-permanent street vendors. The conversion ration hear is 3 srd to $1 usd. so you would think it would be in our favor, but things seem to be a little pricy. A cheeseburger from burger king (yes they have a burger king, mcdonalds, kfc, AND a pizza hut!) would cost you about 6 srd (aka $2 us.) Yesterday we tried to moneygram me some money, and that was a nightmare, first we got sent away telling us we had a number for western union, then 4 hours of walking and directions later, we finally found a western union only to have them tell us that in fact we had a money gram number, (it started raining during the walk.) so we walked and were soaked to another money gram place, and they were like, yes it is in fact a money gram! YES RIGHT! WRONG! ha ha, they didnt have enough money to give me my money... sigh, so we had to trudge all the way back to the place we were in the first place, and they told us oops, yes thats a money gram, o and by the way, if you get it in srd, you will loose $100 usd in the conversion! Thats most of the money im getting sent! EAK! so then i had to call mom and have her tell them to send it in USD, so we will see how that works out.... anywho, despite that nitemare, I do love paramaribo, tis a neat city.