sailing...sailing...and two November 22nds?!

Hi everyone!
Today is the first November 22 for me…tomorrow will be the same day, all over again! We’re crossing the international date line, so we get to repeat Nov. 22! Today I don’t have classes, and tomorrow is a no class day for everyone, so it’s kind of like a weekend for me! But unfortunately I’ll be doing homework and writing papers most of the time. Sigh. But I just thought I’d take a little study break to write a short blog about how I’m in the middle of the ocean, on my way to Hawaii, and we’re having two November 22nds! haha…

We have 5 more days at sea, we arrive in Hawaii on Thanksgiving day! We spend the day there, and then we sail away again that night. So I’ll be spending my Thanksgiving on the beach hopefully! And apparently they’re making us a Thanksgiving dinner on the ship, yay! I hope there’s mashed potatos! And pie!! :-) I’ll be missing my family lots, but in just a few weeks now I’ll be home, and I get to spend Christmas with them. Speaking of Christmas, I just walked by the student store on the ship earlier and they were playing Christmas music! Yay Christmas season. I’m hoping there will be snow when I get home!

So not a whole lot is going on right now on the ship, everyone is writing papers and doing lots of homework. The weather outside is really nice! It’s sunny and not too hot. The seas are pretty calm which is good. I don’t remember if I mentioned about the day before we arrived in Kobe we had a crazy bad night where we had to put everything on the floor of our room because it was all falling off anyways. I’m hoping in the next few days to get some pictures of the inside of the ship and the nice ocean view! I guess most everyone at home is almost on their Thanksgiving break, so I hope you all enjoy your time off from work/school and please email me so I can have things to read during my study breaks! :-) I want to hear what’s happening with everyone at home! My email is jmturcios@semesteratsea.net