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Friday, September 2, 2011 (10:35pm) - MV Explorer

landdddd hooooo! okay, not really cus it's pitch black outside right now. and i don't really know how far we actually are from casablanca. slash, how far away is the horizon? don't be a smart ass, i realize it moves as i move towards it. i mean, if i stand here... how far can i see? someone figure that out and report back asap. but according to the map on one of the tv channels, i feel like we should at least be able to see portugal, if not morocco. even though i've felt that all day though we definitely cannot see portugal at all. we did see another ship though! so reassuring that human life exists outside of this ship. it's finally starting to hit us that in less than 12 hours, we will be in casablanca. so naturally, maddy, michael, and i are sitting in our cabin watching casablaca before we get there and i'm painting my nails. priorities. humphrey bogart, let's be friends. i'm so anxious to just get there already. we just voyaged across the entire atlantic ocean and it was absolutely amazing, but i'm ready to get there. i thought i would be hating life right now and be ready to kill everyone in sight, just to get on land... but i'm more just super excited since all anybody's been talking about is casablanca. so stoked. it was really exciting to land in montreal, which was my first time out of the country... but montreal was still north america. but as of 0800 tomorrow (yayyy for military/maritime time!) i will be in AFRICA!!! is this real life? i'm gonna go with NO. final answer.

tonight we had our logistical preport meeting. nothing really too crazy. but at dinner, the lady who is in charge of taking care of the dependent children (fancy work for saying the staff/professor's kids) sat with us and told us that blonde women are at high risk for kidnapping. byeee brewer! just kidding. but most of the stuff they said was common sense. "never go anywhere alone and don't blackout too hard." and there was a pretty lengthy discussion about traveler's diarrhea which was just lovely.

other little things before i get to our first port... today was pretty rough for me. i thought i was tired yesterday. yeah, not even close to today. our alarm went off this morning for us to get up and go to breakfast. brew & i looked at each other and were like "not a chance" so we just reset our alarms, rolled over, and went back to sleep. poor michael came knocking on our door to get us for breakfast, but he just went back to sleep too. then we had global studies, and i went straight back to sleep after class. you know that awkward period in your nap when you're half asleep and can't figure out where you are? that happened to me and i could not figure out where i was and was so confused as to why i wasn't waking up in my jamaica ct. house in mission beach. that hasn't happened since i moved out of that house in may. just shows how much i'm missing all you usd people! but what is nice about living like 2 decks below the classrooms is that i can lay in bed until literally 1044 for a 1045 class and still be on time... maybe even early. so great! another good thing is that i can roll out of bed and go to work. nike shorts and rainbows to work... right up my alley.

alright, casablanca tomorrow. i'll be in morocco from september 3-6. i can't believe this is my life.

"louie, i think is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"
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