Over Halfway to Spain!

6/20

Last night, I had a five course meal and a variety of wines with our English officers. Definitely a lot of fun. If you ever have the chance to dine with a British seaman, do it.

I woke up this morning and showed up to my 0800 class ~15 minutes early. My professor is in there already. “Have you looked outside this morning? The Azors are visible from the port side window.”

LAND! There is this overwhelming feeling of excitement when you see land after a week of seeing nothing but ocean. At this point, we are now over halfway to Barcelona. We are scheduled to arrive at 0800 on Thursday, in 4 days.

On another bright note, today is the first day it is actually warm enough to go outside without a hoodie. During my first sunbathing session of the year on the 7th deck (pool deck), a girl yelled out “DOLPHINS!” Sure enough, a large pod of dolphins played in the wake of the ship.

Class is tough but super interesting. Imagine your typical graduate course load and reading assignments, but imagine having class every day, including Saturdays and Sundays. That’s a lot of reading. The past two days haven’t been so hectic, but things are starting to normalize on the ship too.
Alright, time to attend a surprise birthday party for a seahort member and take a test....yes, on a Sunday :-(. And we enter another timezone tonight, so we have to wake up an hour earlier tomorrow...

Ooh! I purchased a calling card today and called my family to wish my dad a happy Father’s Day. That was exciting.

Holly.