March 15, 2007
Today is my sister’s birthday, so Happy Birthday Lauren! We’re finally arriving in Mauritius today, but since we got a day-late start in Cape Town, we’re arriving about 6 hours later than expected. I was supposed to ‘hike in the mountains and swim in the waterfalls’ today, but unfortunately that was canceled and we’ll just spend the day exploring this little island. It’s going to be like our Spring Break, and once we get back on the boat, we don’t have class the 18th because its Sea Olympics! I will be competing with the Red Sea in the ping-pong tournament because everything else filled up too fast and for a girl, I think I can swing the paddle pretty well. Our Resident Director bought us all Santa Hats because he figured that would be the best way that we could represent our ‘red-ness’ for a price he could afford.
This past week on the ship was rough. As my roommate put it, the ship isn’t ‘cool’ anymore and the honeymoon period is over. I’ve got 3 class I like a lot: Food and Society, African-American Literature and African Drums. There there’s Abnormal Psychology. 8 AM on A days is my least favorite time of the week. The tests are hard and we have the most ridiculous field assignment for that class- we have to interview people in Asia (who probably don’t speak English) and ask them about random, odd mental problems and then write a 10-20 page paper on it. Everyone else on the boat gets to write a journal for their field assignment…I just hate the class. But we’ve got one more long trip (to India, 7 days) and then April will just consist of us bouncing around Asia. We only have 9 class days in the month of April, which is awesome. I can’t wait for that.
Mauritius is a small island, about 30 miles across and I think 720miles2. Our Mauritian student who joined us in Cape Town informed us all that there is free WiFi across the whole country. Free! We’re all so excited and can’t wait to be able to get free internet so we can finally not worry about ‘wasting minutes.’ I personally plan on connecting to iTunes and buying every episode of ‘The Office’ that I’ve missed and I have to find classes that I want to register for, for fall semester.
The trip to the island has been so, so rocky. Things are falling in our cabin, people can’t walk properly and are running into walls. It’s all very amusing, until you try to go to sleep and your stomach starts to rise up to your throat. But finally, I can see the island out of my window, and am very excited to start my little 3 day vacation.
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