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.