One word: BREAKFAST!
This morning, I woke up for breakfast for the first time. And let me tell you---- it was AMAZING! I never want to miss breakfast again! Seriously, breakfast put me in a good mood for the entire day. What did I eat, you ask? A TON. In my PJs, I enjoyed an omelet with cheese and bacon, 2 thick pieces of French toast, 2 hard boiled eggs (only the whites), yummy bacon, a warm chocolate croissant, 2 glasses of orange juices, and 2 mini boxes of cereal to go (Pops & Captain Crunch—don’t tell!). And after I was done eating all of that, I was STUFFED. So naturally, I went back to the room with Lauren and slept. :) We only had 20 minutes for a short nap before getting up and ready for class, but it felt great! I went to class and was ready to learn. Psychology was interesting as usual, and where did I sit? Front. You can just go ahead and assume from now on.
In Natural Disasters, I was still thinking about breakfast. We learned about plate tectonics and the make-up of the Earth. My professor said to think about the Earth as a hard-boiled egg- a sphere with a core and mantle, and a cracked shell around the outside. I had NO problem thinking of the Earth like one of the delicious hard-boiled eggs I ate earlier! Also worth noting in class, someone legitimately raised their hand and asked if it snowed last night. Now, I’m no weatherman but I’m PRETTY sure it hasn’t been even close to freezing. And last time I checked, it had to be freezing to snow. My professor took the next ten minutes to confirm what I was thinking. I was slightly shocked that conversation had to be had in a college course. Later, I found out that my Global Studies professor had mentioned something about it? I’m still confused as to why. Other things worth noting in Natural Disasters: she used an overhead projector (old school!), she said “that’s rubbish!” (how adorable), there were a couple anxiety-inducing booms heard from above (not something you want to hear in the middle of the Atlantic), and my chair was clicking obnoxiously again (it was like Chinese water torture…but not. Point being it drove me crazy).
Oh, guess who forgot to take her bug bites pills this morning. THIS girl. I was so enthralled in the whole breakfast thing, it completely slipped my mind. Let’s hope that’s okay? On the topic of my bug bites (since you’ve been asking)…..(drumroll please)…they’re getting better! I wore shorts for the first time today! I have a theory that calamine lotion not only soothes but also heals. The tops of my legs and knees that were once home to the worst bug bites are now almost clear! And the bottom of my legs, which showed when I wore leggings (so they didn’t always get calamine lotion) still have deep red circles scattered on them. Not nearly as bad as before, but I see the trend! I like my theory. And if it’s already known that calamine lotion heals, then I guess I just supported that.
Let’s see...lunch? No lunch. Pops, Captain Crunch, and a long nap instead. In fact, I almost slept through Global Studies! My travel alarm clock has 4 different settings, and when I wake up and want to set my alarm for a little later, I almost always end up changing the time and that’s the end of an alarm going off. When I woke up, it was 1334, one minute before Global Studies started. Yes, it is only 3 floors up on the front of the ship, but I was soo sleepy. I tried to watch it on TV, but it didn’t work. :( So I dragged myself up there, still wearing my PJ shorts. Oh and guess what clicked today. My chair. Surprise, surprise, huh? Maybe I’ll start getting used to it!
In the afternoon, I decided to go out on the top deck and get some fresh air while I got work done. At first, it was very sunny and there were skinny tan bodies laying all over. I pulled my little lounge chair into my stair shade and started working away. Soon enough, the sun disappeared and so did all the tanners. Kelsey came out to join me, and it was just us working out there for awhile on the side deck. A little while later, a guy with a ukulele came wandering on out to the deck and met a girl there. At first, I was peeved at the idea of someone disturbing our peace and quiet, but once they started I couldn’t have cared less. The guy sat down and started strumming away at his ukulele- I LOVE the sound of ukuleles. It helped that he knew what he was doing. He started with Somewhere Over the Rainbow. We figured he was maybe serenading the girl, and thought that was really cute. All of the sudden, the girl started belting out the lines in an amazzzzzzing voice. We were in awe! And boy were we happy to be the only ones out there enjoying the show. They continued on, playing and singing a medley of What A Wonderful World, She Will Be Loved, You Found Me, I’m Yours (Jason Mraz), TITANIC (so good), and various other similar songs. They have GOT to get married. We asked them if they were planning on being in the talent show, and they weren’t. We strongly recommended it (slash begged them)! But really, if they don’t get married and live happily ever after…..I don’t even know. They just need to. They were adorable and amazing, and I’m hoping they’re planning on making a routine out of their music-making because I can sure be out on deck 7 when they are. At the same time, two guys came out and were doing P90X on the other side of the deck. It was a really neat moment, sitting out there in the middle of the overcast Atlantic. There was a constant mist of salt water, and it was the perfect comfortable temperature. There was us, studying away, the couple (I’m hoping) playing music to our left, and some guys working out on the right. It was such a good image of simplicity and ship life.
Tonight was The Amazing Race. We weren’t too sure what to expect, and hadn’t heard all that much about it. All we knew was that if we wanted to do it, we had to sign up with 8 people and a team name and that it would be some kind of scavenger hunt or race around the ship. A couple of us had talked about it, but none of us got a team together to sign up. This morning, though, my roommate said her friend had signed her, me, and a couple of my friends up with her in the hopes that we’d want to do it. We all talked and decided it would be fun—after all, the prize was FIRST ones off the ship in Barcelona! And so, I was a part of The Land Ho!s. Notice the “s” after the exclamation. Not the other way around. Anyway, it turns out that there were 60 teams and everyone gathered in the Union at 1930. Well, only 5 of us showed up. We had 5 minutes before the race started, so we all ran out to find some people. We found the girls who were supposed to be doing it with us, but they said they had too much schoolwork. We somehow found 3 more people just in time, got our envelopes, and were off!
I’ll spare you the details, but it was 18 different clues that led us around the ship. All 8 of us had to be present at each checkpoint, in the order of our clues. There was no running allowed, or your team was disqualified. Well, we started off and were struggling a bit. We were figuring the clues out but other teams seemed to be way ahead! We got to about clue #3 and had to figure out this crossword puzzle. All 8 of us were trying as hard as we could, and failing miserably. There was no list of words. We just had to find words, and they were clues to lead us to the next place. We got “SALT” and “LINEN” and realized it’s probably the kitchen or dining halls. We were about to run up there, but decided that we’d probably have to present the completed word search. So there we sat for the next 25 minutes, stumped by the stupid word search. Finally, we were frustrated and decided to just check where we thought it was. We made our way up there and sure enough, that’s where the clue led us to. The girl at the checkpoint didn’t need to check our answers because she hadn’t even figured them out. After that, we had ALL the other clues figured out. Since we couldn’t run, we had to walk to the rest of the 15 clues and get signed off. When we finally finished, we were the 4th team in. We highly encouraged them to let the first 5, rather than 3, teams off the ship first but to no avail. Oh welllll, at least we tried. And 4th out of 60 was still pretty impressive! We took our “#4!” team picture and sat down to wait for the rest of the people. Once everyone arrived, we were announced as team #3!!! Apparently the real 3rd place team cheated and got fake signatures, and were disqualified. Honesty really is the best policy, isn’t it? :) Because now we get to get off the ship FIRST!!! (Well, “third” but all top 3 teams get off at once).
I want to end with a shout out to the nice girl who lives somewhere on my hall! She was walking back from the gym as I was desperate for internet in the hallway, and (in a quick whisper) informed me that the crew member walking behind her just screamed at some girls for not wearing shoes. I quickly jumped up and ran inside to hide my bare feet. Thanks random girl!!
Well, that pretty much sums up today. :)
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