First Day at Sea

Hi to all; I'm extremely frustrated because I just typed up this HUGE long email/blog update and somehow it deleted the entire thing and didn't save it. I'm a little hacked off. :( Lets see if I can remember what it was I said.

I'm already annoyed because I can't figure out how to select all my contacts to send an email to nor can I find a way to even find my contacts to send anything to. I ended up just putting all the emails in a word doc and copy/pasting.

Day 1: LONG. Orientation: We started off pretty early with some presentations on safety, who is who in staff and faculty and then a live feed of the inauguration on the big screen in the Union (which is our largest lec hall thing). We had lunch and a couple twenty minute breaks when everyone seems to flock to the decks in the back to lay out and soak up the rays as well as try to gulp the fresh air and get rid of their sea sickness. I don't know if this amount of rocking is normal but a lot of people seem to be getting sick. I haven't yet, but I keep getting bad headaches. I'm drinking water and trying to stay hydrated. :) More safety presentations and then a depressing showing of the trailer for the Movie HAZE about the hazing and incident of the student at CU who died in a Frat rush. The most represented university on the ship is CU with 80 people. Everywhere you look seems to be a CU or Boulder piece of paraphernalia. The stats are 73% girls and 27% guys. The guys seem mostly cool but there are a few womanizers for sure. But that's the same anywhere you go.

There are also families of the staff on ship and the kids (about 20 of them) range from 10 months to 17 years old. They are all home schooled and are VERY lucky. hahah. In addition to that there are the life long learners who are older people who are graduated and still wanting to learn. They range from 26ish to 60's and above. The ship has about 730 students and 300 faculty, staff, Life-long learners and crew.

My roommate's name is also Emily and she is from (I think) portland. She's also from a small university and we seem to be pretty compatible. I think it will be good.

I am running out of battery so I'm going to cut it short. But if you didn't get this as a blog update and email then pleace send me your email because I don't have it.

Love you all and hope to hear from you soon.


Love,
Em

(Update: Since this wasn't posted right here is another update. This is my 2nd A day (we have A and B days and basically no weekends. We have different classes on each day other than the Mandatory Global Studies class which everyone takes and its everyday. My classes seem to be going well but I can't really tell because I've only had one day of each and that's the typical set up day. We're deciding what trips we're going to take through SAS for a couple of upcoming ports today. TOUGH DECISIONS! More on that later!)