happy fathers day!

So I realized last night as I tried to fall asleep that it was in fact Saturday yesterday and not Friday like I had thought.. crazy. Meaning today is Sunday! Even crazier! I mean there is like no way at all to tell what day it is on this boat.. I mean for goodness sakes I had class today! It’s Sunday and I had class!!! So I’m sitting in Global Studies this morning and someone goes “oh it’s father’s day today” I totally forgot that, I never would have remembered that, and then they made an announcement before class started to tell us the same thing so that everyone remembered to email home =)

So I emailed.  But in any case happy fathers day dad. =)

More classes today, Yippee.  We had lunch on the deck today! It’s been a beautiful day out for like the first time! It was only 68 degrees today..  we got royally rejected by some girls when we tried to sit down at a table.. it was rude, I told you groups have formed..  it’s alright we got our own little table and then two people came and joined us. 

After we ate we and grabbed some homework and went out on the deck! EVERYONE was out there today all the chairs were taken but we were lucky enough to find one so we just shared until Kristi had class.  I sat out there for another 45 minutes after she left, it was so nice out!  I wore my sunscreen though so im not burnt thank god! I do wish however I had a bit more color than I do.. oh well that will come. 

Oh other big factor of the day, how could I possibly forget??! I woke up this morning and saw LAND!!!  Im dead serious too!  Yesterday during our 5:30 announcement they told us that at 6 am we would be 6 miles off a coast of an island (I don’t know what the name of it was though) but I didn’t wake up till 730 so when I woke up and just happened to glance out the window I was very surprised when I saw the island! Anyways then this afternoon at the noon report they told us we were going to pass another island.  So as we were sitting out on our lawn chair I saw it! It was much farther away though and like behind fog it was harder to see but it was still there! It is kinda weird not seeing anything but water when you look out so seeing land is a big deal! And a bit reassuring too.  There have been 3 boats spotted today as well that I am aware of (I’ve seen 2/3)

Eventually I ran out of homework to do outside and I had spent time sitting outside I wanted to come in and take a nap and do some more work.. so I was studying my map quiz for awhile and decided it was nap time.. as im turning to fix my pillows I again just go a glimpse of the water.. and I see a jumping fish and then another.. and by this time Kristi was back from class so I of course exclaim Oh my god there are jumping fish!  So we both are looking out the window now her from her bed and me awkwardly leaning over her in mine and there are not jumping fish I saw but MORE DOLPHINS!!! And all of a sudden wait there is another and another and another!! No joke we saw at least 50 dolphins jumping outside of our cabin window!! IT WAS SOOOO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!  And because the water is starting to turn colors and become bluer and clearer we could even see them swimming right under the surface!  It was just really cool!

I took a nap after all the dolphins were gone until it was time for dinner.  Tonight for dinner I met with my extended family for the first time!  I cant remember if I posted about how they gave us rubber duckies to bring along to so that we were in the family.  So rubber duckie in hand I headed out to dinner. My extended family moms are Amy and Debbie and I believe I have 5 sisters.  No brothers.  Matt you are still my one and only lol =) don’t you feel so special!

So I had to eat real fast with them because at 6 was the meet up for Big Brothers Big Sisters so that we could get assigned to our little siblings!!!! Man my family just keeps growing and growing today.  Well one of my “sisters” Danielle also was doing BBBS so we were talking as we headed over the classroom, turns out shes in my global music class. Also turns out we sat like right next to each other today, pretty funny.  Well anyways I now have a little brother! A little brother who is TWO!!! =) =)  he actually just turned 2 the 16th, we sang him happy birthday during global music =) his name is Cash.  The thing is though that I haven’t ever actually seen Cash before.. but I’m still really excited to get to spend some time with him!
Last event of the day map quiz at 8. Went very well, I’d be very surprised if I miss one.

There are storm clouds outside (yay to my weather and climate skills) .. and thunder hopefully it doesn’t get to rough out tonight, the waters have been really really calm the past couple of days!  I just looked out the window and there are already bigger waves out there. Oh boy.. might have interesting stories about the night if this keeps up.

Time change AGAIN tonight!  So new total 5 hours ahead of Ohio and 6 ahead of Sean.  I believe there is only one more of these this trip, I hope so because they are exhausting!