So I just woke up in my cabin (3045) with the ship gently rocking from side to side. My roommate Miles seems to be an early riser, that’s probably a good thing. I missed breakfast since it only goes till 8:30, but lunch is at 11:30 so I’ll manage. I have my first class at 1pm, or I should say 1300 hours. It’s World Theatre and Performance. I met the professor yesterday and she seems very nice. I think people are beginning to relax a little bit, realizing that we’re all going to be with each other on this ship for quite a while and we need to help maintain each others sanity.
Yesterday was quite a long day; full of orientation meetings, health and safety stuff, and leaving Nassau, coming back to Nassau, and leaving again. We’re now actually on our way to Dominica and the ship seems to be going full speed to make up for the lost time. This 3 square meals regimen is certainly putting my eating schedule back in order, and my sleeping pattern seems to be adapting as well. I went to bed at midnight and woke up at 9:30. We’ll see how long that lasts. Last night I had dinner with a few friends and then a professor and lifelong learner joined us. We started talking with her and boy has she had the life. She seems at least 80 years old now and in those 80 years she was a civilian working as an anesthesiologist in Vietnam during the war with some German peace organization. And in 2004 she was in Afghanistan doing the same thing. She was such a quite and unassuming presence until we started talking to her. My eyes widened as she explained her stories to us. Rebecca told me these lifelong learners were fascinating people and boy was she right.
I’m very eager to get to our first port and really get this trip started. It’s still pretty hard to imagine that this boat with all these people is going somehow make its way all around the world. They say it’ll happen. I guess I should believe them.
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