downward dog

Monday, September 19, 2011 (9:50pm) - Atlantic Ocean

so i don't really have anything new or insightful to say. today before dinner i went to yoga for the first time on the ship. yoga can be difficult on land... try doing it when the ship is rocking. not great. i'm gonna be sore tomorrow from trying not to fall every two seconds. but it was really fun. nice and relaxing... when i wasn't about to fall and die. the ship is really rocking right now. and i'm SO sick of the food. tonight i had the rice & vegetable soup with about a bottle & a half of tabasco sauce so it would taste like something. delicious. i don't think i could possibly eat another salad or tomato. wah.

we're in the southern & eastern hemisphere right now. so on neptune day i was in two places at once. even though that's already been crossed off our bucket list, i get to say the same thing. but i didn't realize how immediate the change in weather would be when we crossed the equator. i knew the southern hemisphere is in winter when we're in summer... but i didn't realize how cold it would be as soon as we crossed. the seas are really rough and it's really windy outside. so much for tanning.

last night i had family dinner. it was really fun catching up with everyone after ghana and hearing their stories about their adventures. consensus was that everyone loved ghana. and it was courtney's 21st birthday so i got to steal some ice cream cake!

tomorrow is our first global studies test. everyone has the test at 9:20am and then we have the day off of classes. it's going to be really nice, even though we just had a day off of school for neptune day. kind of a bummer we won't be able to lay out. but as of today we are a third of the way done with classes. how am i getting credit for this? i don't know. but i won't complain.

anyways, i should probably go study. which really means go to bed. we set our clocks forward another hour tonight. that makes it 8 hours ahead of SD!

goodnight