Cabin Fever

All is well on the MV Explorer but I'm ready for land!

Last night we met our "Extended Families." Its a really neat program you can sign up for that connects you with a couple other students and either a life long learner, staff or faculty and you sorta make your own family group out of it! It was really nice and I'm meeting with them again for dinner befor we get off the boat in Barcelona.

The boat however was not so nice yesterday. After dinner I had to take a bonine (motion sickness tablet) and I wore those pressure point bracelets. I ended up passing out about half hour after taking them at 7:30. Hahaha good thing there were no madatory meetings last night!! I slept for 9 and 1/2 hours last night. Totally didn't even study for my midterm which I had this morning because I just fell asleep. OoOopsiesS! But no worries Mome and Dad the test wasn't bad at all and allegedly there's a curve. Yay

But then after my test, I slept for another 1 and 1/2 hours, went to lunch and then slept for 3 more hours!! So I've got about 14 hours under my belt right now, though most of them were probably to make up for lost time and also because of the bonine.

Supposedly the boat has been extra dicey because we were so close to the opening of the Mediterranean. All of the water bottlenecks in the strait of Gibralter and gushes out, creating fast choppy waves.

Speaking of the strait of Gibralter - we are there now! Refueling for about 4 more hours right under the rock. Pretty exciting to not be moving right now. And even more exciting SPAIN IS IN 2 DAYS!

I'm a little nervous for Spain tho because they have the worst pick pockets in the world - even worse than Naples (they're 2nd worst...so happy to be going to the 2 top pick pocketing cities on earth). According to my one Professor, last year when SAS made this trip, 10% of the students were pickpocketed THE FIRST DAY. Whatttttt. And he said he personally saw a girl get thrown onto the street when a thief on a motorcoach grabbed her purse (that was around her shoulder) and yanked it off her - taking her face first into the pavement... Ummmmmm. So basically I'm just gonna cry and put everything in my underwear or the bottom of my shoe or that super akward money belt I bought.

As for an update on the rash - it has spread to my stomach, but is less severe overall. So yay!

Wish me luck & I hope all is well in the US - specifically BelleVernon, York and of course Lansdale.