Hey All:
So in this post I wanted to explain how classes will work on the ship. Everyone on the ship has to take four classes at three units each, so a total of twelve units (the exception is those people who decide to sign up a fifth class, but have to talk to the dean [the environment here on the ship creates a very personal and direct contact with your professor, dean, assistant dean, and any other official within the organization of the college] and register for their fifth class). Of those four classes Global Studies is required, every person, ALL six hundred four of the students, have to take this class. This class encompasses curriculum focused on global problems, and how to attempt to solve them. For example today, Professor Sanchez talked mainly about how most of the world is very unequal within the boundaries of wealth distribution and development. Farther along in the semester he will be talking about these subjects in a more magnified lecture, but since it is only the first true class he had to start of broadly.
Now your classes are split between two days, Day A and Day B. On these days are two sections of Global Studies, they cannot accommodate all six hundred four students in a single room for an hour and a half, so half of the students go to one section on Day A, and the other half of the students go the Day B section. During the period of class (920AM to 1030AM) there are no other classes.
Your elective classes, the other three classes, are on set days already. For example, I have three other classes besides Global Studies. I have two classes on Day A, Intercultural Communication in the afternoon and Global Studies in the morning. On Day B I have my other two classes, Contemporary Social Issues at 1455PM and Rhetoric of Film right after that class. The Day A & B switch off, so today was a Day A day, or Day A2 since it was the second day I had class for the Intercultural Communication and Global Studies. Tomorrow, September 1st, will be Day B2 since tomorrow will be my second day having Contemporary Social Issues and Rhetoric of Film. Remember, while we are at sea, we have class EVERYDAY unless we are in port in which we do NOT have class for the duration of time in port. This week will end with Day B3, since Thursday will be my A3 day and Friday being my B3 day. Is that too confusing?
Today was yet another awesome day, went to class, chilled with some people I have come to hang out with everyday. I taught them Killer, if you do not know what it is, I will save for when we are in person or ask around, I will bet someone will know what it is, besides those on the ship. I got them hooked on it now that is all they want to play, and it is a fairly good sized group too. We advance yet another hour tonight, which right now it is 0:49 or 12:49AM. We still have to jump two more hours until we reach Spain.
Well it is late and I am off to bed. Good Night everyone,
Until my next post,
"When the wind changes direction, there are those who build walls and those who build windmills."
-Chinese Proverb
What about the girls?
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