January 19, 2011

Entering the Amazon River.  Kind of a big deal and this is the first year that Semester at Sea has attempted to do it.  Didn't know this little bit of vital information before embarking on this wonderful voyage, but turns out it worked out really well.  It was pretty entertaining listening to all of the crew warn us about standing on the top deck of the ship, and if we were to do so that we needed to hold on tight to the hand rails.  Captain Kingston came on the loud speaker and warned us that "the ship might roll a bit", due to them taking off the stabilizers for the ship so that we could enter the shallow waters of the Amazon River.  So yea, Mr. Captain could we please use another ship term to substitute rolling?  Though it was kind of funny, and it turns out that we had the smoothest sailing yet once we entered the Amazon.  Anyways, that was the night time fun of my day, and during the day was just a regular old two classes a day, lunch, gym, lay out(which I only did for 30 minutes because we are currently directly on the equator), and then dinner.  Ship life = incredible.  Every single day on and off the ship is so fascinating that I have such a hard time choosing what to blog about.  Over-privileged is an understatement.  For anyone back home who can't decided where to study abroad or deciding if it's financially possible, make it possible.  We all live once and this is truly the best gift anyone can receive from their college life.  I'm going to get back to studying for my classes, a.k.a. sitting out by the pool reading a book, so until next time blog readers.

And by the way, for a little fact of the day...the Amazon river is super brown and really wide.