I spent the next couple hours (and classes) trying to keep the food down. There were some very close calls. Luckily, my psych class got out early because it was a review session for the test tomorrow. Not many people had questions, so he let us go and I took the opportunity to catch a quick (really quick) nap before Natural Disasters. In Natural Disasters, we are studying volcanoes….like Mt. Vesuvius, the volcano I’m going to hike up while in Italy on an FDP! Yes, IN the crater. Let’s hope that’s not when it chooses to erupt. Anyway, I am on a ship. I learned all about the different kinds of volcanoes, how they occur, and what they’re like. Like I said, I’m on a ship. Ocean volcanoes are very peaceful. Land volcanoes are violent and dangerous. I’m on a ship, in the ocean, over water, where peaceful volcanoes occur. All the sudden the ship started vibrating/shaking quickly. What was happening? What did I assume? VOLCANO! Seriously. My heart started pounding for a split second as I legitimately thought a volcano was going to erupt. I guess I was really into it? Hey, at least I was learning!
I went to lunch and got some of a PB&J down, then went back to my room to study. God bless Katie for giving me her seasick wristbands that got me through the afternoon. I sat on my bed for the next hour, studying as much as I could. I went up and took my Global Studies test, and it was actually a lot easier than expected. I’ve never been one to like history tests…ever. I still don’t like history. I like learning about it when I’m seeing things that pertain to it, but I don’t like being tested on it. At all. Hence why I refuse to take a history class in college. But here I am, taking a REQUIRED one. :( Oh well, at least I got the first test over with! And my grade ended up being much better than expected….whew! And RIGHT before I went in to take my test, people were gathered at the windows so I peeked out too. What did I see? AFRICA!
We were just entering the Strait of Gibraltar. LAND was such a good sight! After I got out of my test, I went out onto the deck. It was SO cool. When I looked to my left I saw Africa. All I had to do was turn my head to the right, and I saw Europe!!! It was awesome. I could see 2 continents at once! We were passing through the narrowest part of the Strait. After taking a billion pictures, I ran down to take a quick shower. I didn’t even want to dry off in the bathroom because it was so hot and steamy, so I just stepped out into our room and I was going to dry off there. Right away, there was a knock at the door. Lauren opened the door and Brittany was standing there yelling at me to get clothes on because we were refueling! I dried off as fast as I could, threw some clothes on, grabbed my camera and ran up to the top deck. I didn’t see the refueling ship actually attach to us, but I did see the Captain out on the little extending-out platform which was pretty cool. After taking a billion more pictures, we went down to our rooms to finish getting ready. The second I got into my room, my phone was ringing and Brittany was eagerly telling me to run up to her room because the refueling ship was attached literally RIGHT outside her room. I went over there and saw, then decided to go up to the higher decks to get better pictures. We discovered the 5th deck that we didn’t know existed, and ended up being at the same level as the bridge of the other ship. I was taking pictures of the other ship and all of the sudden the people in the ship refueling us started waving and smiling for our pictures! It was so funny! Finally I got to go down and get ready. I didn’t need to dry my hair, though, thanks to the ridiculously strong winds. We all had to hold onto the rails so we didn’t blow away. They were crazy!
After dinner, we all ended up sitting at our table staying awhile talking. We were there for 2 hours, then went to our Cultural Pre-Port mandatory meeting. We learned all about the culture in Barcelona, and how to be careful of pick-pocketers. We stayed after that too, and asked tons of questions. We tried to study for awhile, but were distracted. Of course right when we started focusing, it was 10—snack time. I studied for about 20 more minutes since I had just gotten in the groove of it and a few of us went up then. Darwin works snack as well as dinner, and was really excited to see us. I saw that there was one brownie left, so I told him to save it for me! Just as a girl was going to take it, he grabbed it and put it at the back of the tray. She was really confused so he put it back- it was really awkward! I wouldn’t have asked if I knew someone was in the process of getting it! She ended up not wanting it and I split it with the girls. He scolded us (jokingly) and told us to get there earlier next time! We studied for awhile longer and went to bed pretty late. For some reason (engines changing probably), the ship was shaking/vibrating like crazy again which made it impossible to write!
Happy Birthday, Syd!!! :)
^ Captain!
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