Day Nine at Sea

Day Nine at Sea

This morning we went to class, ate lunch, took our usual one hour nap, then we went to trivia. Oh, trivia. We bombed it. We finally lost something haha a lot of us had a sufficient amounts of random knowledge but most of the questions were more for the elderly people on the ship. I guess it’s understandable since 90% of the people on this cruise are over 50 and you really can’t please everyone but I definitely wish we had had some more relevant questions that we could’ve gotten. Then we went to flash mob dance class so that’s always fun. After that, Sam and Caitlin and I went and got some food then Caleb and I attended Samba class. It’s kind of frustrating sometimes because they just teach the basic steps to every dance since the clientele is again mainly older. But he and I usually just make up our own stuff and dance around the floor. I don’t have much experience doing Samba so that was good to practice it.

After Samba, Caitlin and Sam and I went and hung out and just talked and wrote our journal stuff for a little bit before bed. Then it was dinner time. The boat was really rocky today so I actually got a headache from how much it was rocking so I skipped dessert and went back to the room to sleep. Apparently sea sickness can come in a variety of symptoms such as allergy-like symptoms, nausea, and severe headaches. That was one of the worst headaches I’ve ever had in my life but once I got some food in me and then went to sleep for a little bit I felt a lot better. We take naps literally every day at this point – sometimes for 2-3 hours but if you think about it, we’re all still catching up from a restless semester, and we’ve already lost 5 hours so far as we change time zones slowly – not to mention the fact that we go to bed pretty late at night and have to get up for class every morning. I’m just thankful we have the opportunity to take naps while we’re on the boat because I know we’re going to be a lot more pressed for time once we’re in Europe!!

After I woke up from my evening nap, we went to karaoke round 2! Mark dominated with some awesome Frank Sinatra renditions and then I closed the evening out with Alicia Key’s “If I Ain’t Got You”. I’m pretty sure attempting to sing Alicia Keys is a death wish but I think I held my own J Then after that I was wide awake from sleeping for two hours after dinner so we went and watched our friends play pool for a little bit then we went to the pool solarium for a late night snack and we ended up having really deep conversations about relationships for like 2 hours. Taylor, Tyler, Caitlin, Ari, Alex, Eric, and I all sat around over pizza and hot chocolate sharing the stories of how we got into the relationships that we were in and it was so awesome to get to know more about these people and get to know deeper things about them. I love this part of study abroad trips like this. Some people were more open than others but it was just fun to hear and obviously I love hearing romantic stories J And Austin, you got talked about so hope you don’t mind :P

That was it for day nine! Until next time,

MC