3rd Day at Sea

The weather was back to being dreary today, and it was just another regular day of classes.  In global studies all we did was learn a map of the Mediterranean – good thing I love Sporcle and learned it already :o)  Some people are freaking out that our teacher goes like really fast, but I think it’s fine.  Then in Stress Management we just laid in the big student union and “meditated” for like an hour.  Everyone just fell asleep with the rocking of the boat.  It is like a main area of the ship so other people would like walk in and be like wow what is going on?  I’m pretty sure everyone is jealous of our class since we get naptime everyday.  My last class was just a normal lecture, but we already had to start doing group meetings tonight and I have a great group so that is a relief.

The food on the ship is pretty decent.  I have never made it to breakfast (it stops serving at 8:30am and my first class isn’t until 9:20am) because I would clearly have to make the effort to get up almost an hour early.  The lunches and dinners always have a lot of variety – usually salad bar, a pasta, potatoes, steamed veggies, and 2 types of meat to choose from.  It’s not the best food but it is definitely edible and the pastas are always pretty good since that is hard to mess up.  I’ve been trying to eat the salad these first few days because pretty soon the lettuce will most likely not be fresh anymore.  The best part of the night is snack time which is from 10-10:30 every night while we are at sea.  The have little triangular PB&J, chicken salad and tuna sandwiches, veggie wraps, and also a different variety of sweets every night.  There is also a pool grill/snack bar that is open from 8pm-midnight that has burgers, hotdogs, pizza, candy, chips, pop, etc. but those all cost additional money and I haven’t eaten anything from there yet since I go to the free snack time!

Our clocks moved forward an hour last night and they jump forward again tonight!  We are losing so many hours but at least none of us will have jet lag.  It is kind of weird to be having 23 hour days on the way there and then 25 hour days on the way back.  Also sort of interesting – I heard that the captain pretty much gets to choose when we move the clocks since there aren’t really specific time zones as we cross.  I guess it makes the most sense to just change an hour every day.

On another note – we reach Spain in only 4 days!!  We will be docking in Cadiz (where I will spend 1 night) then heading on a SAS sponsored trip to Sevilla, Granada, and Cordoba.  I have free time for one afternoon in Sevilla and one evening each in Granada and Cordoba.  Let me know if you have any suggestions of things to do or great spots I should visit!  Thanks for the comments!!