From the Middle of the Atlantic...

Greetings! I am sailing on the beautiful MV Explorer in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, sitting on Deck 6 in the sunshine and spray, looking out at nothing but water all around us. It’s strange to think of how far we have come already and how we still have a week before we get to Spain! The Ship itself is beautiful though; everything is new and clean and my room is quite bigger than I expected. My roommate is a very nice girl from MA (who didn’t know any of my family on the East Coast, believe me I went through you all). We had our first day of classes today and I’m really excited. For the one class that I had my professor seems very nice and he speaks Russian too so I’ll be able to practice while I’m here!
I thought I had escaped the motion sickness that seemed to catch everyone else… until last night when I got sick before I could find my Dramamine. O well, it seems to have passed by now. This is our second full day at sea but it seems like it has been so much longer. The rocking of the ship (which is much more violent than I thought it would be) makes walking during the day a bit difficult but is nice to rock you to sleep at night. Everyone is really nice on board and I can’t wait to get to know them all better.

We were able to stream the inauguration live yesterday and the whole ship was celebrating. We had a party last night too with fake champagne (not so good) and cake and desserts (very good).
Last night and the next couple nights in a row, we have to turn the clocks forward. Losing an hour of sleep for four nights consecutively is not very fun! On top of that I have never been so tired in my life. I just keep wanting to take naps the whole day. At least I’m not the only person falling asleep in Global Studies though;)

Well I’ll be sure to update later this week with how classes are going but nothing too exciting is going to be happening until we get to Spain next week where I’ll be turning 20!!!

K, I must go read some now… Goodnight everyone!

Much love always