MARCUSSSSS!!!!!!

Friday, September 9, 2011 (11:09pm) - Atlantic Ocean

SO i can't believe i forgot to write about this yesterday... but lunch yesterday was... wait for it... TACOS!!!! wait. beef tacos. this is such a buzz kill. so i got to eat beans and rice. which isn't bad.... when you're eating beans and rice in san diego. but hey, i won't complain too much. anything other than a salad is fine by me. fake guacamole has never tasted so good!

last night, brewer and i spent like an hour in the computer lab. no, not being studious... filling out immigration/customs paperwork for all these crazy countries. who knew we had to do that? so official and stressful since there aren't any extras so you can't mess up. there was a whole powerpoint they sent out giving step-by-step directions. too much work if you ask me.

anyways, not much new going on today. woke up with a million emails about the power outage most of you guys had the pleasure of experiencing. free day off school is always a blast. tonight our "sea" had an ice cream social. i don't know if i've said it before, but brewer and i are in the "yellow sea." it's pretty much just what hall we're on, so like RHA but on a ship. we have an RA (called a Living Learning Coordinator - LLC). i'm pretty sure ice cream has never tasted so good! but we didn't stay for the annoying ice breaker activity... instead we joined chris, james, molly, heidi, and joel for a game of apples to apples. LOVE that game. so that was really fun. now i'm in bed watching food inc. on loop on our tv. oh how i wish i had cable right now! BUT fun fact.... some of you guys were concerned with the fact that i won't know any of the popular music when i get back. but don't you fret, we have a fake vh1 channel. anyone who's lived with me (which narrows it down to melissa & my fam) know that i watch/listen to vh1 in the morning when i'm getting ready. though i have to go without the actual music videos, they play music on the map channel on our tv which shows us where we are in the world at any given point. kind of like in fancy airplanes that have the map showing your progress. but my fake vh1 plays such random music. i think this morning the playlist went maneater by nelly furtado, we are the world, some gospel song, paramore, then michelle branch. so yeah, i won't know any popular music. but at least i  have something!

other random things about life on the ship... i got an alarm clock on the ship. because turns out, living without a cell phone is way more inconvenient than i thought. anyways, back to the alarm clock. every single day, this clock moves 5 minutes fast. so i change it back to the right time every night. and the next night i'll come back to my cabin and sure enough, 5 minutes fast again. now. who remembers marcus?! brewer and i found him. MARCUSSSSS!!!!!!! he followed us around the world. so, now we've figured out who our "ghost" is. so glad he's a familiar old friend.

alright well that's all i got today. keep on keepin' on.