The past couple of days the weather has been phenomenal-- sunshine
and blue sky as far as the eye can see! I've read a whole book on deck
two days ago, and fried myself in the sunshine. I've watched every
sunrise and sunset on the boat, but the best time is sitting under the
stars and talking for hours with friends on the back deck.
The other night a bunch of my friends and I went to pub night on
the 7th deck (the drinking age is 18 under International Water Laws),
and right after went to a Salsa dancing class in the Union. There was a
ridiculous amount of people trying to learn Salsa dancing, but it made
the night that much better. My friend Richie and I were learning the
dances together and then inevitably started making up our own moves.
He's actually really good, and I don't think I'm too bad thanks to Danza
Kaduro, Freshman year, Lexi and Reema! haha Anyways, there was a
competition at the end and of course we were all in. The next thing I
know around 100 people or so were surrounding Richie and I in a circle
and we were salsa dancing around acting like we actually knew what we
were doing. I mean, I don't want to reveal all of our dancing secrets
but one of the best moves was Richie ripping his shirt open and
shimmy-ing while I walked around him and clapped, and spun and dipped
(if you can imagine any of that)!
We definitely laughed the night away.
Something really exciting that happened today was that I went back
in time! SAS told us that when we went to bed it would be Monday, then
when we woke up in the morning it would be Wednesday! We didn't actually
cross the International Date Line at night, but they said we did for
class purposes the following day. But at 2:40pm we passed the Date Line
and we all ran from one side of the ship to the other and technically
"went back in time"! (;
7 DAYS TILL JAPAN
"Wherever you go, go with all of your heart." - Confucius