I'M ON A BOAT (correction: Ship)

Hello everyone! So I know I haven't written in a while, because the Internet here is noooo bueno and you have to pay for it and I am scared to use my minutes! But this is now the fifth full day on the ship, but it feels like I've been on this ship foreverrrr! Like you know when you’re at summer camp and every day feels like a week? That's exactly how it is here. I pretty much have a set schedule, so I will explain it all here!

I wake up at around 8:10 when my roommate Jordan wakes me up. I roll out of bed so we can leave the cabin in time for breakfast, which ends at 8:30, so naturally we roll up at around 8:25.  I then eat breakfast which consists of the same thing everyday. There are potatoes, runny scrambled eggs, some type of omelet that is also made with runny eggs, a  mystery meat, French toast, oatmeal or something similar, fruit, danishes, bagels and or toast and of course coffee. That might sound good but considering it's the same thing everyday, it gets really boring, oh I forgot to add that there are hard boiled eggs. My breakfast consists of hardboiled eggs, toast with peanut butter (sooooo crucial) coffee ( just as important) and cereal normally to eat or take it as contraband back to my room because we aren't allowed to take food from the dining room but naturally I feel the need to.

After breakfast we go back to our room and get ready for our classes at 9:20. Jordan has some awful Econ class and I have global studies which is where I'm writing this blog post. It's the class that everyone is required to take, and it's pretty boring. Hence why I'm not paying attention. It's all about the Mediterranean so it's kindaaaa interesting but normally not.

So after global studies I go to the gym at 11. You have to sign up but a lot of times people don't go at the time they sign up for, so I just kind of show up. I work out and then do my stretching routine on the deck which is awesome. Stretching outside definitely trumps stretching inside. Depending on if I'm planning on laying out later in the day,I might or might not shower. I then meet my group of friends for lunch at 12:15 for lunch. If you think my rant about breakfast was long, GET READY for the other meals.

So SAS (semester at sea) has a strange obsession with potatoes. Lunch and dinner always have potatoes!!!!! But in addition to potatoes, there is some variety of pasta, rice, mystery meat, salad, steamed vegetables, soup of some sort, sometimes a hummus wrap if I'm lucky and a questionable dessert that is good on occasion. The meals (all on different days... You can't have all the good food on one day, it would just be a crisis)  that were the most exciting included rice with chicken in it, fried rice with eggs in it, hummus and lettuce wraps, and these delicious devils food cake brownies that I put peanut butter on and it was like a Reese’s brownie and def top desert on the ship so far. So for every meal I'll have salad and rice, but last night I hit a wall and just couldn't eat anything in the dining hall so I had a PB and banana sandwich. There's a grill that serves pretty good food but you have to pay for it so you need to make sure that you don't eat at it everyyyyy day. The reason I'm going on about the food is because it is just soo terrible!!!!!! And like its just the same thing everyday and ive never eaten so much salad in my life!!! No joke.

Okay so now after lunch, I either read for class or lay out by the pool ( except not today because it's cloudy) until 2:55 when I have my intercultural communication class. It's kinda boring but kinda okay because ive never taken a communication class before so I like learning about the different theories. I also made a friend with some girl yesterday so that's good because there are a lot of serious beezies on this boat. Then right after intercultural comm, I have my water sanitation class. Originally I was going to drop because like, water sanitation? Come on that's boring. But the teacher is a substitute from the previous voyage and js awesome. Because he makes the class a lot more ISCORy (for the non-aztecs reading my blog, ISCOR is my major and it stands for International Security and Conflict Resolution) and I like that. He's great. Also there are actual boys in that class, and with the 75% girls vs 25% boys, you can imagine the conflict.

So moving on..... Most of my friends have reading to do, but because all my classes are pass/ fail, it's really hard to motivate myself to do work. So I don't! Then after class I have dinner at 6:15 with the same group from lunch ( my roommate Jordan, Jessica Christman, and these two awesome girls Katie and Erica and occasionally other people). Dinner is the same as lunch pretty much, so normally I just drink wine instead of eating. I'm ONLY kidding but perhaps while in other countries, I will do that :).

After dinner is normally do whatever you want. People congregate on the deck, and sometimes it's daunting to meet new people, but that's what you gotta do! Okay global studies is over and now I'm going to the gym :). I will post more later, especially when I'm in the countries and have wifi!!! 

In case you were wondering about the title, it's because we aren't allowed to call the MV explorer ( my new home) a boat because it's a ship. It's kind of a funny joke

The Bahhhhhaaaaammmmmaaaassss

Hellllooooooooooooo....

I'm sure you are wondering why i'm dragging everything out, but its because everything in the Bahamas is muuuuuuuch slower then it is in the States. Like it is crazy how much slower everyone moves. And it's not necessarily a bad thing, but allow me to give you a few examples. Before I say anything, I have to say that all of the Bahemians (idk if thats how you spell it...) are super sweet! Always helping you out and wishing you good morning and good afternoon, definitely something I'm not used to... but could GET used to :). However, at dinner last night, I had just arrived from my flight at like 7:30 and was so hungry because I hadn't eaten all day. We go to this famous fish fry place and dinner literally took 4 hours. It was ridiculous.... but it was pretty good so I can't complain.

The Bahamas are beautiful and it's been really fun meeting all of the SAS'ers! This hotel is pretty much overrun by them, so basically any college student I see is probably going on my ship. I board tomorrow at 8 am....which is QUITE early but at least I'll be on the boat. There are also quite a few fellow Aztecs that I've been meeting! It's crazy that there are people from State that I don't even know. 

I feel like there's more that I should say but i'm REALLY tired so i will just list some highlights:

-I bought a floppy hat that is a cross between a grandma and a horse race type hat... aka its AWESOME

-Everything is VERY pricey because it's imported (a grande sbux ice coffee was like $4.90)

-A lot of SAS peeps went to Senor Frogs tonight and it was verrryyyyy fun

-I ran into a kid from my high school so that's random

-The Bahamas is really humid, everyone speaks english and I have listened to Lil John more on the radio here than I have at home.

Okay well it's my bed time now!!! Next time I post I will be on the boat :)

And so it begins....

Hello blog world!!


This is my first time ever having a blog, but i figured Semester at Sea is a great time to start one. I am currently sitting on my bed NOT packing....and writing this blog instead. But i mean once a procrastinator always a procrasinator, right? Whatever it's cool. Now you can all read about all of my adventures!! 


So my flight leaves on Wednesday, June 15th at the crack of dawn and arrives at the Bahamas at 6 pm. I will be staying with Jessica Christman and her mom! So i'm very excited because then I won't be so nervous. I then board the ship on June 17th, and set sail that night. Now for you stalkers.... here is my exact itinerary so you can see where I'm at: 

Depart June 17th from: Nassau, Bahamas

July 27-30: Barcelona, Spain

July 2- 8: Naples / Civitavecchia, Italy

July 11-14: Dubrovnik, Croatia

July 17-21: Piraeus (Athens), Greece

July 24- 27: Varna, Bulgaria

July 29- Aug 2: Istanbul, Turkey

Aug 8- 12: Casablanca, Morocco

Arrive August 20: Boston, MA USA


So basically, I AM SO EXCITED! I am currently listening to some new house music I downloaded to prepare for my stay in Ibiza, Spain! For those of you that only know of it as a word in one of J-Lo's songs, it is actually an Island about an hour plane ride outside of Spain. And during the summer it is simply known as the party capital of the world. So OBVI I had book a flight. I'm superrrr excited! I'm going with a couple girls and I know it will be a great time!!


Alright, well that's all for now! I will try to update as much as possible....but no promises :)