Day 2- orientation

Another long day…

So woke up today and still feeling the boat a rocking =/   I took another motion sickness pill and tried to get ready although I was really feeling all the movements.. then Kristi and I went to get lunch at like 8:10 and we had to kind of hurry because it  is over by 8:30.
I was hardly able to eat my fruit loops because I was feeling so sick.. I decided I best go talk to the medical center to see about getting that behind the ear patch to help ease it all.  I told her that despite my taking one of my pills everyday and wearing the wrist bans that are like cutting off my circulation I still feel awful.  She asked me to get my pills to show her what they are and see if I should maybe instead take the ones that they provide that they say to take 2 every 6 hours.  The patch not really being an option at $20 a piece and needing replaced every 3 days.   After returning to the clinic with the box the nurse told me that the pills I have and am taking one a day are really the same exact thing that the are giving out to everyone and saying to take 2 of every 6 hours… so with that being said I’m trying to up my dosages and see if that works better.    I went back to my room took a second pill for the day and headed to the union for our meetings…

The meetings were very, very long they talked about the honor code, plagiarism, our global studies course, and field trips that sas does for 3 HOURS! Straight!!!!  All the while my motion sickness pills are kicking in.  I feel the gentle sway of the boat which is now much better, but I am now extremely tired at this point because the pills make you drowsy.  I closed my eyes a few times and came really really close to actually falling asleep. 
Once the meetings ended we went back to our room to the room for like 10 minutes and then went off to lunch.  I had pasta salad, pork chop, rice, vegetable soup and rolls.  Surprisingly I really don’t think ship food is that bad at this point, it is much better than BG’s!!! hopefully it stays this way! Then after lunch Kristi and I spent a few minutes outside but it was really windy and kinda cold =(  so we took the time to do some emailing/ I started writing this to this point.

Next up is a few more hours of meetings!!

Before meetings started up again Kristi and I took a quick 15 minute “nap” sooooooooooo tired!!!!

Then 2 ½ more hours of sitting and listening to people talk and talk and talk… I guess they have to get this all out there but still…  after the second sets of meetings we got to sign up for activities on the ship.  I signed up to get a “family” and Big Brothers Big Sisters and Babysitting.  On the ship the life long learners and faculty/staff “adopt” students to become a family for the voyage.  We do different things with them throughout the voyage such as eating with them playing games or doing anything really that we decide we want to all do together.  Faculty and staff are allowed to bring along their spouses and their kids.  I believe I heard there are about 19 kids on the ship this summer.  So I signed up to do big brother big sisters with them along with babysit them periodically throughout the summer! I’m really actually super excited about this, go figure right =)
During that whole process it was complete chaos and I officially lost Kristi for the first time haha but that is totally fine I walked past a group of people playing PHASE 10 and there was an empty seat soooo of course I asked to play too! That only lasted for like 20 minutes though because then it was time for round two of sea meetings.. and that one was surely very interesting..  we came up with a sea chant.. it’s great… gives a great chuckle but I see it as not fitting to post here.

One thing we learned yesterday  is that on top of the 3 scheduled meals we have each day we also have a half hour snack time from 10-10:30 at night!  Kristi and I scooped it out tonight but weren’t too thrilled by anything so then we went outside to see if we could see the stars but it was cloudy so we just hardly saw the moon… I tried taking a picture with Kristi and it and it looks like a star…  now finishing emails and then taking my first risky shower on the boat.

Oh last interesting fact of my day… I got yelled at today =(  okay not totally yelled at but still.  When we were on our computers earlier I was sitting cross legged on a chair and the “voice” guy asked me to put my feet down because the captain doesn’t like that ….  I totally respect the captain and all but you guys all know me well enough that I am totally incapable of sitting properly in a chair for more than a minute at a time.. it’ll work out though

THINGS I FORGOT TO MENTION YESTERDAY:

The ship is 75% female and 25% male

The stairway I couldn’t think of the correct name for is the Gangway

There was more that I remember trying to tell myself not to forget so that I could post them. Guess what. I forgot them…

First day of classes is tomorrow!!!!!! Scary stuff! But im excited to see what they will be like.