I can FINALLY say I have my sea legs!! Well, kind of. Im over my sea sickness-thank god. But the boat rocking is SO intense I dont think anyone has their sealegs in that light at all. Its not at all rare to see the following daily:
- At least one person fall out of their chair in class
- A wave to splash up on a deck 4 window (7 decks total)
- Lounge chairs sliding with the direction of the wave..with people in them
- An entire class period with zero cell phone interruptions
- Doing homework/updating blogs outside on the decks while watching the view go from sky to horizon sky to horizon etc
The constant rocking of the ship makes everyone tired. I didn’t really believe it at first when the staff would say the rocking rocks you to sleep like youre a baby, but it really does. At home I don’t get tired till like 12 or 1am and here I could fully fall asleep at like 9-I don’t though. I want to take in every minute I can here.
I LOVE being on the ship. I love being constantly surrounded by the ocean and not ever seeing a mountain or any snow. I’m currently typing this outside on deck 5 according to “the voice” (the intercom lady who comes on every so often all over the ship to make various announcements) its 70 something today..I can’t exactly remember what she said. But she updates us every day at 12:00 and tells us our location (longitude and latitude wise) ((were almost by the equator!) and how many nautical miles we’ve traveled and how many more till our next destination (Hilo, Hawaii). Anyways its really nice out..humid for anyone from Colorado..and a little cloudy. I hope all the Durang-a-tangs are enjoying the snow J.
Side note-there’s a yoga class attempting to do yoga next to me and its pretty hilarious to see them trying to do this while the boat is rocking so much.
Also-sidenote- rumor has it one of the LLL’s (Life long Learners) fell and broke their wrist yesterday. Life Long Learners are adults who are typically like a grandparents age but not always, who come on the ship to do exactly as we as students do minus the homework-isn’t that nice- and we can be adopted by them. You meet with them once a week or so and you hang out, play games, I think sometimes they’ll even get you some kind of treat!
Because of the rocking most everyone on the ship slept about 3 hours last night. The rocking causes our dresser drawers to open and slam shut every few minutes and some people’s dressers fell over completely! I even heard some girls TV fell too! Ah! So now I’m obviously paranoid because the tv is on my side and if it falls I will fully be taken out. And if I’m going to go out on SAS that’s not exactly how I was planning on doing it- death by tv. Okay anyways…
Gini- …or anyone who knows what my daily fluid intake usually consists of..I have been drinking THREE to FOUR bottles of water per DAY. Yes, that’s right. I have been drinking water..and a lot of it. I hardly ever drink juice now. Who knew it took SAS to change my dietary habits. The food on the ship is fine, but I’m not that picky anyways. Every meal has some sort of mystery meat that I opt not to come close to, a pasta dish, potatoes in some form, veggies, soups, salads, rolls, and everyone’s favorite PB&J. There’s usually a dessert too.
It’s crazy living with your professors. Right now my GS (global studies, a class everyone’s required to take) is sitting next to me- it’s almost like seeing a fish out of water. I missed a class-well I sat in the wrong class- and my professor dropped my missed work off at my cabin door, quite convenient.
Hmm what else..I don’t know if there have been any comments on any of this, but if there are I can’t read them..I can only read my sas email which is JAMARSHALL@semesteratsea.net. I love hearing about what’s going on back home or anywhere really..email me! We heard on the ship that California has been having some of the worst storms in years and there were tornado warnings in CA and AZ?! Crazy.
Uh oh. It’s starting to sprinkle a little but on the deck. I’m going to head inside to get ready for dinner. We were now, starting tonight, 4 hours behind Denver time. Hope all is well back home. Sorry for the lack of pictures. Ill try to figure out how to upload those soon-if I can at all.
xx
(sorry if theres typos i cant see ym screen real well outside)
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