Days at Sea—From San Juan, Puerto Rico to Salvador, Brazil

Saturday-Friday, February 10-17, 2007

So this is our first long stretch at sea. It is very weird having classes on Saturday and Sunday. I found myself emailing my dad on Sunday morning and almost emailed him at work before I remembered that it was a weekend. So yea, I have been going to all my classes, which should be of no surprise to anyone, and I have been doing so much reading! It’s ridiculous, I really did not expect to have to do to much work for this experience, but my 400-level anthro class is kind of insane!

Right now it is Valentine’s day! And I know I am going to post this after the fact, but HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!! For v-day today we passed the equator!! So now only am I writing to all of you from the middle of the ocean, but I am also in the southern hemisphere! Tonight we are having a dance on board. It is a stop light dance! So everyone is wearing red, yellow, or green depending on their relationship status. It’s very funny being on a floating campus, I feel almost like I am in high school because everyone is like “are you going to the dance?” “oh really! Me too! What are you wearing?” It is quite interesting.

So yea, as for the days at sea, we have class everyday, including weekends so it is really hard to keep track of days. Between classes I usually go to the pool deck and lay in the sun while reading for classes. Majority of the time I end up taking a nap, haha. Sorry if this makes anyone jealous! But I am not missing the Ithaca weather at all!!!