I'm ON A SHIP!!!!

I know, I know I haven’t put the addresses on yet, but I will do it in time for all of you to try to send me letters to me in either China or Vietnam. Or should I say you can try to send me letters. I know I need to send emails to people but I’m having a hard time remembering who.

Hears a little on the shiplife so far:

All hallways look the same so getting lost is quite easy

My roomy is nice fairly neat and doesn’t snore (insert collective YAY! Here)

The ship does rock and some people are getting seasick but not many. I took a non sea sick thing last night and that seems to work for me. Something about laying in bed while the boat rocks made me think I might need one. Eating food helps too. And I guess after a few days you get ur sea legs or whatever. In the mean time I’ve learned to enjoy this whole side to side motion.

The ocean is pretty

I’m already getting tired of pasta of any kind and the grill is look good

Our first “aft-ter hours” pub night thing is tm but most of u no I would rather get a large ice cream than a bad beer for 250 any day : )

Me and this girl named Ruby are going to start a self defense class. She’s a third or second degree so she could kick my but and I’m really excited to get back into tae kwon do.

Rooms are small, but there’s a place for everything. It gets pitch black because there’s no window, the beds are okay and I’m really glad I brought my pillow (I’m not the only one too), small fridge for cokes and things, the tv plays the same two sad depressing documentaries over and over and over not to mention the map which is kind of cool (it shows the location of the ship in the world)…

Today was all orientation and it couldn’t have been any more boring. Informative but boring. We had an orientation on activities, classes, global studies, field excursions, and I think one more, and they were all an hour long. I cant wait till class starts tomorrow.

Anyway, I feel good today, I went to the gym and worked out a bit, but discovered you had to sign up for a machine b/c there are only so many. So I settled for the thingy and reserved the other thingy for tm morning. I don’t wanna come home fat! :)

Will update soon (maybe). Mom Dad Chrys luvluv y’all. Call u wen I reach Hawaii.

Mom I had to use ur credit card for my appstate application bc it wouldn’t take amer express. But don’t worry the amer express is hooked up to all charges I make on the ship!! :)

Melody