02.09.12
Time is so lucid while on the ship. We do not have weekends and we have lost 4 hours in the last seven days. I have sent some emails to people about how I am spending my time on the ship and I wanted to elaborate.
The Atlantic crossing passed quickly. We have had eight days of classes which is the longest stretch of classes by far. The work is not really that difficult or time consuming and I have plenty of time to socialize and to rest. Everett and I have been waking up for 6:30 for an Insanity fitness class since the Feb 6th. We are both pushing each other to get up.
I am learning sign language from a girl on the ship who is deaf and her translator. They have started an ASL club! The translator also Ballroom dances, so she joined our little informal group to teach those who find us and want to learn or to just dance and have fun. One of the girls is from France had found us dancing by accident and she was thrilled to learn ballroom and expressed that excitement to me.
I also attended a Spanish club, where I got to talk to other Spanish speakers and my professor! I am really excited-I will continue to use this as a way to preserve my Spanish.
We spend a lot of extra time playing card games like Egyptian Ratscrew, Rummy and Hearts. We played Cranium a lot at first. There are different programs put on about music or other different topics. Also different movies are played in the Union (auditorium area) and on the TVs. We have seen Hangover, Toy Story 3, and Pirates of the Carribean. The TVs for awhile marathoned Shrek, Pirates 2 and Tarzan. On the day of the Super Bowl, we all had to give up four hours of internet for there to be enough ban width for them to show it. I watched up till half time!
The ocean is really calm and we can barely feel the boat rocking which is unfortunate because I enjoyed being rocked to sleep at night. The weather has been significantly cloudier than the past weeks in the Caribbean area! We get rain almost every day and the decks are constantly wet. On the 9th we got to see a lightning storm and I had a great view (Note to Daddy and Uncle Don). It was exhilarating. Everyone is feeling better (as far as sea sickness)! We also had about 16-20 people quarantined for a day. Many of them were simply sea sick but the crew was not taking any chances with norovirus (often called the "stomach flu").
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Neptune Day
Neptune Day-Wednesday Feb 8th-The Day We Crossed the Equator!
Today was “protocol day” and while we were not sure what that meant, we knew we didn’t have classes today. Everett and I have been waking up at 6:30 am for an Insanity fitness class since the Feb 6th. At 7:45am, there was an announcement from Neptune telling us that we had to report to the 7th deck aft in bathing suits. I was already awake because of the exercise class. They had current music on the sound system and 4 large trash buckets with their tops on.
A drum line of all the cabin stewards travelled through the hall and eventually made it up to the 7th deck with our dean (without a shirt) covered in green (Neptune) following in the rear. They talked to us and had us say an oath ( I wasn’t able to really hear it to know what was said). But to pass the ritual, we had to have slime poured over our head, jump into the pool, kiss a fish, kiss King Neptune’s ring and we were then knighted.
People had the option of shaving their heads. I am really bad at guessing but a little less than half of their guys are either bald or have Mohawks. I believe six or seven girls shaved their heads; none of them had really long hair. I thought about it for a moment because the excitement of everything but my friend Chelsea and I vowed to each other we would resist the temptation.
The way the heads were shaved was the people sat down in a row- there were 4 chairs- and people that worked on the ship (not hairdressers) shaved people’s heads. A lot of the jobs were very uneven-the guys can fix on their own. They did a better job on the girl’s heads. The salon offered to fix the uneven haircuts for $5. It is hard to recognize people that we have just met and it is also the norm to see a lot of guys sitting around that are bald. When the people stood up from their haircuts all their hair was on their back, it was so disgusting. There was so much hair on the deck… I think 40 lbs all together. I left around 9, I think it went on till much longer and people hug out in the pool, but it was too crowded.
Today was “protocol day” and while we were not sure what that meant, we knew we didn’t have classes today. Everett and I have been waking up at 6:30 am for an Insanity fitness class since the Feb 6th. At 7:45am, there was an announcement from Neptune telling us that we had to report to the 7th deck aft in bathing suits. I was already awake because of the exercise class. They had current music on the sound system and 4 large trash buckets with their tops on.
A drum line of all the cabin stewards travelled through the hall and eventually made it up to the 7th deck with our dean (without a shirt) covered in green (Neptune) following in the rear. They talked to us and had us say an oath ( I wasn’t able to really hear it to know what was said). But to pass the ritual, we had to have slime poured over our head, jump into the pool, kiss a fish, kiss King Neptune’s ring and we were then knighted.
People had the option of shaving their heads. I am really bad at guessing but a little less than half of their guys are either bald or have Mohawks. I believe six or seven girls shaved their heads; none of them had really long hair. I thought about it for a moment because the excitement of everything but my friend Chelsea and I vowed to each other we would resist the temptation.
The way the heads were shaved was the people sat down in a row- there were 4 chairs- and people that worked on the ship (not hairdressers) shaved people’s heads. A lot of the jobs were very uneven-the guys can fix on their own. They did a better job on the girl’s heads. The salon offered to fix the uneven haircuts for $5. It is hard to recognize people that we have just met and it is also the norm to see a lot of guys sitting around that are bald. When the people stood up from their haircuts all their hair was on their back, it was so disgusting. There was so much hair on the deck… I think 40 lbs all together. I left around 9, I think it went on till much longer and people hug out in the pool, but it was too crowded.
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