Hey everyone!  The rest of my day yesterday was someone uneventful.  A large group of us ate dinner together and we managed to stuff 16 people at only two tables.  I think we sat there for at least an hour, just talking and getting to know each other better.  After dinner we went our separate ways, expect for Jeff, Nick, and myself who went to the Piano Lounge to do some studying.  An hour later Laura, Colleen, Jill, Colin, Jeff, Nick, and myself (I know their names don’t mean anything yet but I’ll post pictures when I can) all met up in Laura’s room and watched Wedding Crashers on a computer.  Laura’s room is an inside room so she had a third bed we pulled out of the wall to give us more sitting space.  It was a fun time.  The rest of the 16 who ate with us went to the Union to watch a movie that they were showing on the big screen.  It is cool to find a group of people who isn’t eager to rush to Pub Night.  I hear the “Pub” is fun, but I am just happy that my new friends don’t have to engage in drinking in order to have fun.  Today I woke up at 7am, but we lost an hour so it felt like 6am.  Today was also the first day that I got up in time for breakfast.  They stop serving breakfast at 8:30 so most people miss it, but since I have an 8am class I figured why not, and I just skipped my shower this morning.  I had orange juice, fresh fruit, scrambled eggs, and a small and extremely yummy bran muffin.  I wasn’t hungry for lunch so I only had some pinto bean soup.  Yum.  I had all 4 of my classes today and was done that by 2:50 and have been studying and doing homework ever since.  My hall doesn’t get internet in our rooms because of the fireproof doors so we all sit out in the hall to get online and to email and to access our Intranet system (ship wide system).  It is funny I am actually done my homework for the next two days now so tomorrow I plan to lay out at the pool, something almost everyone has done except me!  I am going to meet some people for dinner now, and then we are going to take swing dance lessons in the union!  It works at well because there are an even number of guys and girls in my new group of friends, so we are all forcing the guys to play along! HAHA!  Tonight is open mic night at the “Pub” so I think we are going to go there after.  Should be fairly entertaining!  Including the day of departure we have been on the ship for 5 days, and we only have 4 more days to go until Cadiz.  We are all excited and anxious to see what the first port brings.  The first day in Cadiz I am doing an FDP (faculty directed practicum) called Observational Learning.  It is a requirement for my Cognitive Psychology Class.  That night I am doing another FDP that is not required for any my classes but that I am using as an elective FDP for one of my classes that is more lenient with the FDP requirements (all classes have field requirements, some require you to do the FDP’s for that particular class, some require you to do any 3 FDP’s taught by any professor, and some classes require you just to write papers on anything you want write on).  So the FDP that I am taking that night is a Flamenco Night which should be amazing.  The rest of my 3 days in Spain my friend Chris from home and I are taking a train to Seville and just doing whatever!  Miss ya!

 

 

I didn’t post this blog yet because I didn’t have time to get to a place that had internet in the ship, but now I am done dinner.  I forgot to say that today is Nick’s (from Cabrini) birthday so last night before I went to bed I wrote “Happy 20^th Birthday Nick!” (one letter per sticky note) and put it on his door.  At dinner his mom must have bought a cake because they brought him out a ¾ of a sheet cake…it was hugeeeeee!  So yummy though.  After dinner we laid out on the deck and relaxed on lounge chairs in the dark before swing dancing.  Dancing was so much fun.  There were about 75 of us, and they are going to have classes every week!  Anyway, I’m about to play cards in the Piano Lounge and then there is open mic night and the “Pub”!