Life on board the Explorer

A typical day on the ship for me is as follows:

I usually wake up around 7:15 go to breakfast and then go to the gym for an hour and shower and go to class. Depending on the day I either have 2 or 3 classes. I am typically done with class around 12:30. Then go to lunch and usually go up to the top deck to lay out in the sun and hangout at the pool. Dinner is around 5:30. After dinner they usually have events and learning seminars, so sometimes I will go to those. Then I do homework and hangout and play games or got to pub night and then bed. There is not a ton to do on the ship, so we have to make our own fun. We have been playing a lot of cards and board games to pass the time. I usually hangout with my CU friends: Suzy, Tessa, and the Boulder boys, but we have met a bunch of other people too. We hangout a lot with some boys from Penn State and some girls from Wisconsin, Bucknell and Vanderbilt, all over really.

Some of the kids have "extended families": basically, you are just adopted by one of the families on board the ship. They have things like family dinners and get togethers every once in awhile, but that is basically all there is to it. I don't have an extended family, but I know a lot of people that do. It may have been nice to be in an extended family, but I'm doing just fine without one.

Classes are going well. I just had three tests a couple days ago, so it's nice to be done with those! I got 100% on one, our global studies test was pretty hard, but I did well on it with the curve, and I haven't gotten the other one back yet.

There is a registry of people who have been on the ship before: I haven't looked for Mom in the yearbook yet, but i will. I have to register for my CU classes on april 13th and that's when we are in Ghana, so i will have to figure out when and how will be a good time to do that.

Just got back to the ship in Mauritius!!! It is beautiful here!!! Today we spent the day at the beach snorkeling, tubing, kayaking, paddle-boating, and playing volleyball. It was an amazing day!!! Cant wait to get to South Africa! I have not been able to put pics up because my computer is too big to carry around and we haven't had free wifi at any of the ports.
Love Em