Bahamas

Sunday, February 04, 2007 @ 23:42

Well the past few days have been fun spending time in the sunny weather with dad. How can you beat 85 degree weather over Rochester weather? We had some great Bahamian food and drinks down here. I must say one thing about the Bahamas, the people are amazing. I was very surprised at how helpful and open they where.

I’m officially on the MV Explorer and as I write this we are moving at a slow 19.4 knots toward Puerto Rico. This whole trip didn’t set in. I was having dinner on the back deck as we pulled out of the Bahamas and a few of my new friends and I realized that this was day 1 of 100. I can’t even explain what’s going through my head. This ship is amazing and the crew is even more amazing! Just one example is sitting at lunch; they take our plates from us, get us drinks and even offer to carry our plates out to our table. The food… all im going to say is it’s the most amazing food and I get to eat it for the next 100 days. This is college? I’m on the fastest passenger ship afloat, a ship traveling around the world with 700 other college students from all different parts of the US. My mind is blown away right now. Putting the icing on the cake, running into Desmond Tutu in the dining room? What is going on right now? I feel like im in a dream.

Now as for adjusting to being on a ship. Well im starting to feel what its like to be in open sea. It’s fun to walk down the hall as everyone kind of shifts towards one way and then back the other way. I feel better relaxing out on the back deck as the ship cruises, inside you feel thrown off. As I lay here in my tiny but comfortable bed I can hear the engines cranking away and a slight vibration. What boggles my mind is that we are only moving at 19.4 knots and it seems fast. I’m tired, tipsy and headed to bed.