Greetings to all:
I'm currently writing you from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean as I sit in my cabin. Things have been great so far. My roommate's name is Maribel; she is from Newport and goes to Colorado, Boulder. Our room is quite small but we were able to fit everything we brought and still managed to save some space for all of our clothes and souvenirs we are about to buy. We're really getting along and she already knows tons of people. (There are 36 Colorado kids on the boat... and tons of So. Cal kids too) Its kinda nice to have a popular roommate so she can introduce me to a lot of people. I've located all of my fellow Hoosiers and I'm glad to see that they all made it aboard. I also ran into a fellow Langley kid aboard as well. Not sure if any NoVA people are reading, but Tyler Beale says hi. There were about 45 kids missing as well as 100 bags of luggage around 5pm Sunday. We pushed back our departure time til 7pm, at this point we had all 583 students aboard. I think there are about 20 people waiting for their luggage in Norway.
We had some meetings last night and learned a lot of statistics about the boat. There are 583 students aboard, 450 of which are of the female gender. Let's just say my odds do not look good. There are 50 Pitt students, 36 Boulder, 20 UVA, and about 15 from San Diego... Its nice to be a minority with only six Indiana kids. There are 1000 people total on boat which include faculty, staff, crew, lifelong learners (elderly people who are on the boat just traveling with us), and families of the staff.
Classes start tomorrow, not sure how I feel about them yet. My anthropology and education teacher seem great. The global studies teacher is a little imitating but since all of us will take this class I think I'll survive. Most of the professors are from UVA, so unfortunately they have the Wahoo-state of mind. I may have gotten off onto the wrong foot w/ some of the UVA kids by commenting on the Hokie blood in my family. But I'm not too concerned.
Well I'm going to go walk around for a bit. I'll post again after a few days of classes.
2 comments:
Sounds like you are off to a great start. Glad you like your roomate- that seems key when living in tight quarters. We can't wait to hear about your first stop and all that you are learning in your classes. :) Take care and have fun!
Amanda,
So glad you're having a blast!!! Heard you had some rough seas......Becki just got back from Paris, so check out her "facebook" (I'm trying to whisper...it's not for everyone to see!!)
love,
Aunt Steph
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