Hey Everyone:




Sorry I did not post last night, after yesterday I clonked out at 10PM local time (2200 since we have to start getting used to military time). Yesterday was a jam packed day full of orientation and signing up for clubs.



Orientation was nothing special. They just went over the honor code and to be careful with alcohol since we are all over the age of eighteen. Orientation went from 9AM to close to 9PM, with two, two hour breaks for lunch and dinner.



Food on the ship is pretty good. I mean, if you ask a fat man if he likes food he will always answer yes so whenever we eat it yummy. Last night's dinner was a steak dish with potatoes (which we have with every meal), a salad, and for dessert banana nut bread. The only bad thing I can say about all the food/drink on the boat is that you can only drink water and the other drinks at dinner IF you did not bring a water bottle, otherwise you can drink whenever. That is one object I am going to have to buy once the campus store opens up today at 8AM (which it already is, it is 9AM local time, we lost an hour last if anyone is paying attention to the time change).



Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke at our orientation last night, what an amazing human being he is. The best compliment I think anyone our age can get is when he said we, the students as a whole, give him a "high" and he started dancing around. He always seems to be in a fantastic mood, day in and day out. Sometime in the near future (probably when I read some more of his book) I am going to introduce myself to him. This voyage will be an interesting and wonderful one with him on board.



Last night I signed up for numerous groups on board. Before I got on the ship, I had already signed up for a group called Vicarious Voyage, in which students studying on the ship send postcards/pictures/blog posts to a school in America, and it just so happened that I got paired with my high school french teacher, Stefanie Gaines. Other groups I joined are intramural sports (dodgeball, soccer), a career services group (because within this group there is a woman who worked with the Secret Service for over thirty years, so I plan on striking up a conversation with her), a community service group, and the cardio club. We shall see how all this works out, I might have to drop a a few, or keep them, but who knows, today is only our third day at sea.



Well I got to run, class starts in twenty minutes, our big class, more on that for tonight's post.


Until my next post,



"Sorry no quote today for right now, I cannot get online"

-Drew