Day One

I’m alive!

Things have been going great since day one (some sarcasm). After I met a few other Semester at Sea kids on my flights over to Nassau, we immediately bonded as about 15 of us had our bags lost by the airport. That’s a great way to start out a three month voyage. But everything eventually worked out, and my bag was returned about 30 minutes before the ship left the Bahamas.

It’s really odd living on a ship. Everything here is so fancy. We have maids that clean our room every day and waiters who serve us drinks during our mealtime. I feel bad, because I’m used to doing all of that by myself, but I suppose it’s not so bad… The ship rocks so much more than you would think, and a lot of people are starting to get seasick. I haven’t had to take anything yet, but apparently these waters are a class 1 out of 10 as far as roughness goes, so I’m thinking that I’ll probably have to use a patch or three once we start trekking to South Africa. Puerto Rico is tomorrow morning, which is our first port. I’m signed up to go on a trip to Bioluminescent Bay and El Yunque Rainforest/Liquillo Beach with Grant, my roommate. I’m so glad that Grant is on this voyage with me, because it makes meeting people so much easier. Those of you who know Grant should know why. We feed off of each other pretty well, as he says, and Grant is Grant. It’s tough to meet people too, because once you meet them, you never know when you’ll see them again, unless you set up a meeting time for the future. There’s no cell phones or facebook or anything, but I like it that way. The ship is huge, and if you want to see pictures, you can go to the semester at sea website, because those pictures are better quality than anything I would take. I’ll update sometime later. Take care!