The alarm went off and I turned it off, so Lauren attempted to pull up the curtains so it would wake us up more. Well, it didn’t work, so I reached from my bed to try, and we determined they were broken. So she climbed up on our bedside table to manually pull them up, slipping and kicking the alarm at my head. In the few seconds that took, I had dozed back to sleep and was awoken by my alarm hitting me in the head…and that’s how today started!
We got ready quickly and went off to class. I wore a maxi (long, for you guys out there) dress to cover my legs, since I was sick of wearing leggings to cover up my diseased-looking, bug-bitten legs. They are getting better, but slowly, so it still looks gross. I was surprised to get a lot of compliments on my black & leopard print dress! :) Who knows what I’ll find tomorrow…I’m hoping one of these days my legs will be looking human again and I’ll be able to wear shorts.
I sat in the front in Psychology, meaning not by the windows so I did get a bit dizzy at some points. It was crazy!...in one class period, my professor integrated things I learned in two different completely unrelated classes I took last quarter. We talked about individual analysis in psychology, so sexual reproduction and its processes, including all the genetic combinations possible. A little over a week ago, I was taking a biology test on the details of this! Later, he was showing us different graphs and we were looking at standard deviations, correlation coefficients, significant differences that I learned all about in last quarter’s biostatistics class. Also relating to my UCSD classes, someone asked the Captain yesterday how far out we can see. He said it depends on your height, but usually about 25 miles. I did a physics lab similar to this in the fall, analyzing the sunset and finding the radius of the Earth. A little different, I know, but still kind of similar!
In my Natural Disasters class, we started by doing a “free-write.” It sounds just like what it is- we have a couple minutes to just write. If we run out of things to say, we have to keep writing regardless- even if it is “I don’t know what to write. I don’t know what to write. I really don’t know what to write,” until the next thought pops into our head. Today in class, we talked about heat waves and fires. Well, I sure had a lot to contribute to that topic! One other girl lived in Southern California during the 2007 wildfires, so our professor was very interested in hearing about our experiences.
At lunch at I didn’t see my friends, so I sat with and met two new girls. After that, I bought a map from the bookstore and went and hung it in my room. While I was at it, I decided to finish unpacking and “clean” my room, since I was pretty rushed moving in the first day. I covered the random painting on my side of the room with my new world map, so we have 2 maps now! Lauren’s side already has a map. I’m planning on mapping our progress on the map, then having friends sign it at the end! :)
Global studies was from 1335-1450, and rocked me to sleep once again. I actually videotaped out the window because the horizon was rising from the top of the window to the bottom and showed how much we were rocking!
Finally, it was time for the bridge tour at 1630. I hurried up to the activities desk and chatted with the woman who was going to bring us up while we waited for the other people in our tour group to join. She said if we thought this was rocky, just wait until we’re right in the middle of the ocean. Uh oh! I thought we were pretty rocky right now- walking up and down stairs and down hallways, everybody just goes from side to side simultaneously. They weren’t joking when they said to hold onto the rails!
We were brought up to the bridge and got to go into “restricted area”- so exciting! The third captain, Cristian, gave us the tour and was very nice and informative! He let us look at all the computers and buttons and equipment as long as we didn’t push any buttons. He showed us the GPS, radar, steering equipment, backup equipment, etc., along with who was in charge of each and how they controlled everything. It was about 30 minutes and I learned a lot! At the end, I got to sit in the Captain’s chair and wear a Captain’s hat for a picture. :) I’ll post it when I get internet in a week!
After the bridge tour, Kelsey, Brittany, and I all went out onto the front deck—our new favorite place! We took some talked, relaxed, and took some pictures. Then it was dinner again…I feel like I’m always hungry and always eating! I’ve heard lots of rumors that the potatoes are the first thing everyone gets sick of. Well, today was the first day I started getting sick of them, and I’ve only had to have them 8 times! I’ve been taking full advantage of their decaf coffee, so I had some for the second time today. If anyone knows anything about overdosing on decaf coffee, let me know soon before it’s too late…….I’m kind of an addict.
I came back to my room after dinner and have been listening to Jack Johnson while updating my blog. I was good about it yesterday and today, but I actually have some catch-up to do from a few days ago. This blog’s going to sit until I finish the others so I can post them in chronological order!
I’m about to go snap some pictures of the sunset, then go to a nighttime learning session. I might watch Inception afterwards…OR start some homework. We’ll see! :)
Here I am again! It’s 0016 and we have to move our clocks forward AGAIN tonight. They’re just jipping us of our sleep!
Tonight, I went to a seminar about Esperanto. It was really interesting! Esperanto is a “universal” language- it is meant for communication with anyone who knows one of the Romantic languages. I have a little background in Spanish, but Sign Language was my primary second language throughout high school. When I walked into the room of the seminar, I was surprised to understand almost everything the lecturer was saying! It’s really neat. It’s extremely simplified, with very few rules about grammar and conjugating verbs and all the annoying stuff other languages involves. I haven’t decided if I’m going to look further into it- the lecturer and some other students are going to try to learn it this voyage. We’ll see!
I finally figured out what the darn course folders are and how to access them! All the teachers have been talking about them and telling us we need to get information out of them, but it’s just been this big looming unknown to all the students. I finally accessed it! And I thought it was a big enough deal to share. :)
I just finished my planned “homework session.” Did I do any homework? None. But hey, at least Lauren and I got to talk for the hour and get closer as roommates! I really need to actually get work done….I’ve been so bad with my schoolwork! There are just too many people to meet and too much to do!
Okay, so maybe I got a tiny bit of work done. It was actually really weird reading about learning and memory as I was studying it and trying to learn it…it’s like I was reading about what was currently going on in my brain! Trippy.
Alright, it’s time for me to do my daily calamine lotion routine and get to bed. Till tomorrow!
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