Yep! I made it on the boat!! (Except technically its a ship with boats on it..)
I've officially been onboard for 33 hours.
The Bahamas was great until the lock on our door didn't work so we had to change rooms. And then my dad and I went to the casino for a while because we got a promotion card for 5 FREE dollars to play with. But it was very confusing and also unsucessful!
I got on the boat yesterday around 8:30 with no problems! Then I met my roommate (who is from California, but was born in Poland and is fluent - I know, right?) and lots of others, ate lunch with everyone (which was really good and very vegetarian / pescatarian friendly), unpacked, participated in the lifeboat drill, got my email and internet set up, layed out for a lil bit and went to a few general meetings.
Also, to anyone that was involved in taking the "passport style picture" of me or taking me to walmart to print it - HAHAHAH they blew up the picture and used it as my photo id. I would post a picture but it would use all of my internet bandwith. Wah.
To the best of my knowledge we've exited of the Bermuda triangle, but I'm unsure.
We have been in safety/community/informational/boring/long/dark meetings all day. Don't get me wrong, it needs to be done, but I definitly have a sorry case of "fanny fatigue."
Something to think about - since we are going east, we lose an hour of sleep every other night basically due to time zone changes!
Tonight is one of those nights we lose an hour and tomorrow is the first day of classes! I have a Green Urbanism class at 8am tomorrow, Global Studies at 9:20, a Water Supply and Sanitation class at 4:15 and then a 1credit Brush Up on Spanish class at night. VERY excited.
Dinner is in 1/2 hour. Yay I'm hungry. :)
Best,
Vicki
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