First Day of School

And it's not over yet!

 

So far I had my first 1/2hr of feeling sea sick this morning, but no worries - I held myself together and felt much better after breakfast. (So then I was thinking maybe I was just really hungry..lol)

 

Started the morning off bright and early at approx. 6:45 (but we lost an hour of sleep so it was more like 5:45 body time). Got breakfast with my roomie at 7:30 and then went to my first class at 8:00.

 

My 8am is Green Urbanism which is pretty freaking cool cause its all about the sustainable (and non sustainable) aspects of cities; and how the structures and layouts of citiies affect behaviors and lives.

 

Then I went right into my Global Studies class that everyone has to take. The main point of the course is to learn about all of the different countries befor we visit them so that we have a better understanding of their culture/ history but today we learned all about the ship we're on - the MV Explorer. That was actually really interesting becuase they talked about all of the different regulations, why we're registered as a Bahaman ship, how they treat the waste, how much fuel we use, etc.

 

And thennn I went to the gym. And my gym I mean the closet with no air ventilation and so many sweaty people. You have to sign up for 1/2 hr slots because of it's size. It was so hot though!! I'm about to buy a fan in Barcelona and put it in there just so that no one dies!

 

Then I got lunch. I had cream of vegetable soup, a salad and egg & olive salad on rye bread. Yumm

 

After that I layed out and read my 100+ pages of reading that I had already been assigned..

 

The reading for my Green Urbanism was on waste pollution and water pollution. It basically talked about how cities can't handle their own waste so they usually try to export it to other poorer places (whether that be in the US or in developing countires) . It also talked about different waste and water treatment option, and their pros and cons. Plus the book which is called Sustainable Urban Development (by Wheeler) is nice because it's a collection of different articles by different authors and theyre all written so that they're really easy for non-technical people like myself to understand.

 

I read some of my Global Studies but it was a struggle.

 

Then I went inside and didn't recognize my self becuase I look like a Mexican!

Heeheh a slight exaggeration.

 

Thennnnn I had my Water Sanitation and Supply class.

Ok so the teacher that was originally suppose to teach it had a family emergency last week so he bailed. But the substitute prof seems awesome. He was teaching on the May-mester and they just asked him to stick around for the next 2 months and he agreed. I can't wait til I'm retired and can pull that off!

 

But thats gonna be a crazy class, very informal (in a good way), very malleable, and very independent.

 

I just had dinner and in 10 minutes I start my Brush up on Spanish class and then head to the activities fair!

 

Peace love and miss you all,

Vicki