never go anywhere alone & don't blackout too hard

orientation all day long. i'll spare you the details, because if i'm this bored... i can't imagine reading about it. but since we're officially sailing the rocking of the ship is putting everyone to sleep. and the fact that they close all the blinds so it's dark for the projector. orientation is slowly turning into nap time for everyone. not sorry. and sleep is becoming valuable as we have to set our clocks forward for the first time tonight.

brewha and i are already doing magical things. so, like all of you SAS alumni told us we ripped the picture off the wall and read all the great things past voyagers wrote to us. we found our motto of the trip: "never go anywhere alone and don't black out too hard." um. life lessons people. i wish we could read the guys last name who wrote it... but kevin, whoever you are, i think i love you. it's pretty valuable information whether you're on a boat or on land. also, we had to sign a roommate agreement form, but us idiots didn't know we actually had to write notes on it... so we just checked everything off. "hygiene... check... public space... check". yeah we rock. we're also supposed to figure out how to resolve conflicts. and since i didn't have room to pack my lightsaber a la 732 1/2 jamaica... we had to brainstorm a little bit. final answer: walkoff... zoolander style. michael will be the judge. you know great things are happening in 3011. at dinner yesterday we were also deciding who would get the door if we sank like titanic. we agreed we'd go halfsies instead of rose letting jack freeze and die like a selfish bioootch. woopsies. anddd our light went out yesterday mysteriously when michael, brew, and i were sitting in our room writing blog posts. i think we have a ghost. we all agreed, as long as it's nice it's okay with us.

yesterday before the lifeboat drill the captain got on the intercom to talk to us. and he has a british accent!!! (saw him today... turns out he's a british ginger. i died a little.) brew, michael, and i decided he needs to do story time every night to rock us to sleep with his crazy sexy cool voice. if not story time, maybe fireside chats or something? we set sail yesterday , but we're in a river (St. Lawrence River) so the ship isn't rocking very much. but it does move a little bit and the san diegan in me thinks it's an earthquake everytime. keeping things interesting. speaking of san diego, tyler repstad was right... we're already being known as "those kids." and by those kids i mean USD kids. there are 62 of us on the ship. with only 447 students, that's a pretty solid percentage. lots of delts onboard.  my email address on the ship is free. please feel free to email me. it's nice hearing from home. my email is shslavinsky@semesteratsea.net.

loving life so far. kinda want to be like dj pauly d and run around yelling "THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!!!!" all the time. but i figure that's not a great way to make friends.

signing off from the pool deck. life's rough.

peace & blessings