Today was my first full day at sea. We departed from Nassau yesterday at 5pm sharp. Or should I say 1700. We are on maritime and I'm still getting used to that system. My boarding time yesterday was at 8:20am. I was in my hotel lobby at 7:15 because I wanted to get breakfast and go online before I left. There was another girl from SAS there and I asked her taxi driver how much it was to get to port. He just said "Come on." So I hopped into the taxi and then I found out that this girl (I have now forgotten her name-- I've met too many people in the last 2 days) had a voucher of some sort so the taxi driver just charged me $5 for me to join. The drive was like 5 minutes and we arrived at around 7:30am. There was only like 4 people in line because boarding actually started at 8am. But the line got HUGE in literally 10-15 minutes so I was happy I was one of the first people in line.
Anyway this is getting lengthy -- to make a long story short, I made it through security and finally boarded the ship. The check-in process went pretty swiftly and I came to my cabin on the second deck. I was VERY, VERY surprised to find out that I have a WINDOW!! Yay-- it really does make a difference. My roommate had not arrived so I just unpacked some and took pictures of the cabin. I wish I could post them but uploading pictures online is way too much for the ship's internet to handle.
Today we had a FULL day of orientation-- from 9AM to 10PM. I came to my cabin after dinner and accidentally slept through some of it. I'm still getting adjusted to the time change since we've lost 3 hours. I'm still getting used to the ship-- but I'm getting there.
This morning we found out that we had to go off course 75 miles due to a storm. I read a little bit about it online and read that it's a pretty big deal. But when they announced it when orientation started they just casually slipped it in and then started talking about something else. So the ship has picked up speed to make up for the deviation. As long as we're okay! Tomorrow we stop in Puerto Rico for a fuel stop but we won't be getting off the ship.
Tomorrow is our first day of classes. It's so weird going to class on a Sunday! But there are no such things as weekends and holidays on Semester at Sea.
That's it for now! Miss you all!
