Where's the land?!

Hi from the middle of the ocean!!!!!
I’ve been at sea for 10 days and I’m ready for LAND! Specifically, the land of India! We arrive in Chennai on Tuesday morning (for most of you that will be Monday evening, haha). I’ll be ready to stand on ground that’s not rocking...the seas were pretty rough around Africa, but it’s getting better as we get closer to India. The weather is also changing a lot as we get closer to India. It’s very warm and humid outside, as opposed to Africa which was colder than I ever figured Africa would be!

So it’s been a while since I’ve written a blog, partially because well hey I’m a little lazy sometimes, but mostly because we’ve been having midterms (yeah, really, I’m going to class every once in a while amidst all these adventures!). I just had my last midterm this afternoon and I’m SO glad to be done with all that studying madness until finals! I’ve still got a couple papers to write and tonsof reading to do as always, but I’m also ready to enjoy India!

Life on this ship for the past 10 days has been fairly boring actually. Well maybe not boring but confining, haha. It’s tough to be stuck on a ship with 800 other people and not get a little tired of it all. But after India the trip really starts going by quickly I think, because we will only have a day or two between most ports from now on. Malaysia is next, then Vietnam and then China and Japan. After Japan is Hawaii, then Costa Rica, then home! Crazy to think my trip is half over.

Oh, I thoght I’d mention something pretty cool that SAS has been doing on the trip so far. Between each country we have one or two “interport students” and sometimes also an “interport professor”. These students and professors are from the countries we are on our way to at the time and sometimes give guest lectures in classes and help with the “pre port” presentation about each country like giving tips on places to go and things to see, food to eat, food not to eat...etc. We’ve got two guys right now on board from Chennai, they’re fun to talk to and it’s been cool getting to know them as well as our interport professor who is a tiny, sweet Indian woman who tells us to call her “Anu” which she says means small! Anyways, it’s pretty cool to have that opportunity to meet some students and professors from the countries we visit. I know that one year recently Archbishop Desmond Tutu sailed the entire voyage, I’m so jealous! BUT, I was lucky enough to hear him speak while we were in Cape Town, which was so cool.

I think that’s all I’ve got for now. I hope everyone is well back home! I miss you all, and keep sending me emails!

*peace*