Long stretch

Not too many things to say, but it's been a little while since I've written so I just thought that I'd give a little update. We've been at sea for almost a week now and the life on the ship can get a little mundane at long periods of time. Easter was pretty normal, they didn't really do too much, both days were filled with the same things as any other day, including classes. We didn't have class two days ago because they were taking pictures all day. They took college pictures; each college got their own picture. And they took the group photo, which was at 8 am, so probably only 2/3 of the students showed up, but oh well, I doubt we would have all fit if everyone did show up. Then Jaclyn and I had our Towson picture later in the afternoon, and we represented Towson, just the two of us.

The weather was pretty cold when we departed Yokohama. It was really rainy, windy and the waves were really choppy the first two days. So the ship in return was really rocky. It was a rough few days because everybody was exhausted from Japan already, and then we were losing hours for time change, and to top it all off, most of us were seasick. Not in the sense that we were throwing up, but another symptom of seasickness is being tired, all the time. So it was hard getting back into routine the first couple of days. Also, this stretch has been filled with tests and papers, which doesn't always help.

 

But on a lighter note, yesterday was beautiful out, and the weather has gotten a lot warmer. Yesterday was 70 degrees and today is about 75 degrees. People have moved back up to the top deck to lay out and hang out between classes again so it's always nice to just relax outside. We arrive in Hawaii in a couple of days on Sunday, but we are only there for 2 days and one night. I am extremely excited to just be there though. It's like a little taste of the U.S. but still a completely different culture. The first day I'm going skydiving and then the next day I'm not too sure what I will be doing. Probably just laying out on the beach like everybody else, work on my tan that I lost in China and Japan.

 

Tonight is the talent show and I think they have about 18-20 acts, so it'll serve for a little entertainment for us and it's about time. I think we're all starting to get a little stir crazy. Jaclyn is performing a dance. We have a little less than three weeks left in the voyage and I think that all of us are having mixed emotions. It's been an exhausting last 3 months, but exhausting for all of the right reasons. I wouldn't change a single second of everything that we have done, all the sleep that I have lost, all the times that I've gotten lost, all of it. But another part of me is definitely ready to come home and try and make sense of all of this and to see everybody again. At parts it has flown by, but thinking back to Spain, it seems like years ago.

 

Well, just thought I'd give a little update. I heard that the weather is really nice at home today and I hope it continues for you all!