Tomorrow we arrive in Spain, I think everyone is very very ready to get off the ship. I’m most excited for the food, and judging by the continually decreasing amounts of peanut butter and jelly sandwich supplies at dinner, I’m not the only one sick of the cafeteria options. But eating is always my favorite thing to do in foreign countries; one of the best ways to experience the culture and meet people. We arrive in Cadiz tomorrow morning and I have the day free, then tomorrow night we are going to a Flamenco night event through SAS, and Thursday we are going on a tour through the white towns in the mountains. Friday we are going to visit Mallory in Sevilla, then the ship leaves Saturday night.
Thanks to everyone for the comments! I love reading them! The classes Im taking are Intro to drawing, Biomedical Ethics, and World Religions. There are about 722 students, and everyone on the ship also takes Global Studies, which just goes over the countries we are visiting. In world religions today we are having a guest speaker who worked as Desmond Tutus assistant for a long time. So that should be interesting. Not much else is happening on the ship. It seems to have become increasingly rocky the past day or two, last night things were flying all over our room, and my bed slid away from the wall a bit. It sounded like we were going through a storm, but my judgment when I’m half asleep is not the sharpest. Anyway, Dana and I were talking with a woman at the spa and she said it is so rocky because we are “traveling at the pace of the lobsters crawling across the bottom of the ocean”. Our ship, the MV Explorer, is the fastest on the ocean and apparently is able to travel much faster than we are, we could have made it to spain in 4 days, but they slow down to make time for classes, but I said they should go ahead and speed up because I don’t mind if we miss a few days…
And also apparently some of the emails we have been sending from our semesteratsea accounts are going into people’s junkmail as spam, so if you are waiting on an email from me us check those! Time to go back to bed now, we are still losing hours. Maybe I will have something more exciting to report later.