Day 4

Wow I can't believe its been four days here already. The days are a little shorter than they were on earth. It makes waking up early pretty easy. I've seen the sunrise every day. Thats a first for me.
Most of the time right now I spend working. Everyone here is required to spend two hours a day in the community fields. Much of the labor has to be done by hand. Our vehicles are limited right now. All of our vehicles run on solar powered batteries. It will take a few years of getting everything developed before we'll have fuel powered vehicles again. I've been digging ditches for irrigation and planting seeds for fruit trees. A lot of wheat and corn was planted a few weeks ago when we arrived and before I woke up. Some of it is starting to shoot up and we've been having to weed it by hand. Talk about tedious, but with five hundred people putting in two hours a day I think we'll be able to grow enough this season to feed us.
For the rest of my days I've joined a group of guys helping each other to build our houses. We've got ten foundations laid out and we'll start putting up walls soon. The materials we brought were limited so we're planning on an expedition soon to the forests about thirty kilometers away to fell trees to make homes. Its amazing to think that we left large comfortable homes on earth with indoor plumbing and a/c and heaters so that we could start a new life on a new planet living in a log house. Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking leaving behind an office job to come here. I've crashed into bed pretty much every night. Except for Saturday night when I stayed out late talking to Becca. We have a lot in common and I've really enjoyed spending as much time as I can with her these last couple days.

Day One

Today I arrived on the planet Deseret, actually I didn't know its name until after I had been waken from my cyrogenic sleep. The ships doctor filled me in on some of it. He's a pretty boy and I don't like him at all. They named the planet after we got here. All the scientists who discovered it wanted to name it different things but the captain of the ship we came on, The Starship Deseret decided that we would call this new planet of ours, our new starship, Deseret, I was told it means honeybee. We'll all be busy as bees here on this new planet.
I was one of the last people to be woken up. They decided that as the guy who represented the investors they would leave me in the pod till the basics of the new colony were up and running. Apparently they missed that part in my profile that said I grew up on a farm in southern Utah. I know a thing or two about hard work and planting crops, even if my parents sold the place when I was fifteen and moved to the city.

This new world is very beautiful. We landed the ship in an open grass land, the grass here is different. It has a purplish hue to its green. I'm sure in the coming days the biologists around here will be giving lectures on why. A couple of kilometers (yes it was decided that here we would use the metric system and give up all others) away is a large river and it is lined with very tall trees. They look similiar to what you would find back on earth.

Our new town is being laid out in a nice square, and plots of land are being assigned to every individual, almost everyone here is in the twenties and very few are married, but there is an even amount of men and women so its only a matter of time. I think I may have found the woman for me. Her name is Rebecca, I met her in the community mess tent, she was serving food. Twenty two light years to experience love at first sight was worth it, and I think she felt the same way. We talked for a while and she says I can take her to the community's first dance tommorow night. Needless to say the hard labor of begining to build my home and the hours I spent in the fields flew by today.