So the past few days have been a whirlwind but AMAZING! I have been hanging out with a bunch of different people and my days on the ship consist of this:
A DAYS:
Wake up and if its still early (before 9) I go to breakfast
Around 11 I go to the gym normally with becca and a few other girls who we met and are free at that time.
Maybee do a bit of reading and then just go lay out and chill on the deck, maybee go swimming etc.
B DAYS:
7:30-wake up and rush to breakfast
8:00-Women in National Development
9:15-Global Studies
10:30-Global Capitalism and the Economy
12:00-Lunch break and also a chance for me to do reading or whatever
2:55-Natural Resources and Social Conflict
4:00 till bed-basically studying and hanging out on the deck.
Now onto better ish…We have left Dominica and are on our way to Brazil! Dominica was amazing! Never have I met friendlier people in my entire life! Before we go into any port we have a thing called pre port lecture where they go over what is expected of us/teach us about the culture. Its nice because then we don’t go completely blind into a country. The first day we were there we went on a bumping tour. We got to go to some of the prettiest places in all of Dominica we started our tour by heading up to Middleham Falls. On the ride there we saw so much vegetation it was incredible! It was a tour hour hike completely uphill (no joke felt like I was on a stair master and my butt has been hurting ever since) but it was soooo pretty the waterfall is gorgeous and is surrounded by vegetation on all sides we went inot a little cave and climbed up and did a bit of cliff diving which was really awesome but a bit scary. After that we went to Trafalgar falls which is actually two waterfalls right next to one another they call them the mama and the papa. The papa waterfall is long and skinny but slow moving and lazy while the mama is a lot fatter but has all the power haha. Then we went to the hot spring sulfur baths which are known to clear a ton of different ailments for your skin. I loved it there bit I had to move to a different pool because Patrick (one of the guys who came) found a dead lizard floating in ours ewwwwww. After that we were supposed to go snorkeling at a place called champagne reef . Its called champagne reef because of the volcanic activity which causes bubbles to rise up from the ocean making it look like your swimming in a glass of champagne. However, we didn’t end up going because they wanted us to pay extra. Then because our guides felt bad that their boss gipped us they took us to a local bar to dance we had such a good time! I dance battled a lady who was probably 45 and she could break it down! It was a really fun night then later we went out to a club called crazy coconuts which had been specially opened just for semester at sea, it was one of my friends’ Jackson’s bday so it was really fun! The next morning we woke up semi late and me, Becca and her roommate Krystal really wanted to go ziplining so we went on an adventure to find a company to take us. On our way we asked for directions from this guy who was so nice and ended up not only taking us to the company but also skipped work to take us to the zipline place and then filmed us the entire time! His name was Dexter and he was our age studying tourism at the local university. He is a prime example of how nice people are on Dominica it was no big deal for someone to go out of there way to be nice to you and really make sure you enjoyed your stay . Anyways we got to the ziplining place and I learned that we were not only ziplining but would also be doing crazy ropes course things. If you know me well you would know that I hate ropes courses and this one was gnarly with logs suspended in the air and weired things that zigzagged but guess what I did it and I only almost cried once which is quite the accomplishment. After that we didn’t have a lot of time but we did go get a local sandwich of curried cod fish. Getting back on the boat was a pretty big bummer but all of us are excited for Brazil! Today I did nothing. The waves are huge and im sick once again which sucks but we are going so fast! Where I am in the boat (the front) makes it so that I am actually getting raised out of the water and crash back down which makes my stomach drop. I put on a sea sickness patch yesterday which has been helping but its still pretty bad. Write more soon!
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