On Ship - Update 1
Spain to Morocco (2010/08/27 – 2010/09/03)
A few days have now passed since embarkation in Halifax. I have had two sessions of each class (two A-Days and two B-Days), and already have a fair idea about each of my classes. The mandatory Global Studies class is tedious but I have had much more boring classes in the past. The material is taught strait out of the book so most people either do the readings or attend class; I chose the latter. Managerial finance is the business class I’m taking and it may even prove useful in the future. There are a lot of finance/business terms that I need to memorize but the mathematical side of the class is elementary. Globalization is taught in seminar format but the class in unfortunately boring and the professor mediocre at best. The one class that I was most interested in, Sustainable Communities, turned out even better than I had initially expected. Rocky Rohwedder is a very engaging professor and clearly has a lot of experience in the area.
Life on the ship (not boat as we are often corrected) has already become routine despite us traveling for less than a week. We experienced rough seas the first few days as a result of a nearby hurricane. A lot of people got sea sick and I decided to take the free medication until the seas calmed down. After a day or so the captain engaged extra engines in addition to what we normally cruise on. This means we covered a lot of distance much faster than we were scheduled to so, as a result, we have slowed dramatically over the past couple days.
There are many toolbags on the ship, herein referred to as SASsholes, but there are just as many nice and interesting people. I am glad that I came to the ship without knowing a single person as it would be easy to fall back into the comfort of people you know.
The next post will cover Spain and I will hopefully have some more internet to upload pictures with.
