Hey All (930PM or 2130):

 

So first day of classes is all done and accounted for, whew. Today I started the day off with global studies at 920AM local time (instead of writing it out everytime, time will always be local time, I will tell you when we lose/gain an hour), and then following that at 1215PM I began my Intercultural Communications class. To be honest, I fell asleep during my global studies class, but from what I heard and understood, conciously, it will be a great course.

 

My professor for Intercultural Communications is phenomenal. He engages the classroom unlike any other teacher/professor I previously had. Also, another trait that makes him so great is he is an Eagle Scout. He stated during a story he preached during class, that he "...took my boy scout hatchet and cut a hole in the ice." You are probably wondering how such an obscure comment made me formulate in my head, and another guy in the class who also is an Eagle Scout, that he is an Eagle Scout. To anyone that is not an Eagle Scout, this comment would have flown by in the conversation that you would not have even given such a comment a second look. But to a fellow Eagle Scout, we only know that if one accomplishes this task, you have the knowledge ingrained in your head to call a "hand-axe" a "hatchet." Also, by saying "boy scout hatchet" gave me more insight into who this man really is, for anyone but an Eagle Scout would not refer to an inanimate object in such a way. I can already tell that this semester with Professor Mcelmore, will be a fantastic one. I also have him tomorrow as my Rhetoric of Film professor.

 

Besides my classes, it was another full day of meet and greet with other students. I met a couple more people who are from Rochester, New York and play basketball for them as well. Also met a guy from La Jolla, California who even knows a few I know, small world eh? Apparently San Diego is the most represented town/colleges on the ship, with USD having more than one hundred fifty students. I am just waiting for the sport teams to start up, playing soccer/dodgeball, so I can have mroe opportunity to meet people on the ship.

 

Nights here on the ship consist of everyone getting together and playing card games, board games, or socializing. Tonight I played a couple people at ping pong (what sucks is there is NO BILLIARDS TABLE!!!!), lost once but won the rest. However, going to bed to early over summer break, the time change, and moving forward in hours kills me and I normally pass out, or begin to, around 930, 10PM here. Which sucks since it seems that everyone is on a nocturnal schedule and I start dozing off as we play some the games. It is ok though, I am getting better with the time change and I am adjusting. Well I am off to walk around for a bit before heading off to dreamland and get some Zs. Good night

 

Until my next post,

 

"Anything that happens once, will never happen again. Anything that happens twice, will surely happen a third and fourth time."

-Paulo Coelho