Okay, so now I’ve been at sea for a few days, and we get to Honolulu on Sunday which should be awesome. Right now, we have traveled 1200 miles, and still have 1000 more to go. As for the boat….
This thing rocks all day long. It definitely isn’t as smooth as I thought it would be. However, I haven’t gotten sea sick which is awesome, I thought I would get really sick on this ship. However, the seas have been smooth the whole time, so I wonder what its going to be like when we get some rough seas. It probably won’t be that good. Also, you can hear the engines roaring in our room, but luckily its not too loud so you can sleep through it.
Classes are good so far. Nothing seems like it will be overly difficult. It looks like there will be a decent amount of reading but it doesn’t have to be done anytime soon.
Also, its definitely cool just seeing the ocean. Its always awesome looking out and seeing just ocean…I don’t think I’ll get bored with that the whole time I’m here, especially since I go to school in the desert where there is no water whatsoever.
For whatever reason, the A/C is always pumping on the ship so its always freezing. I have no idea why they do that. Also, the internet on here is terrible and it takes 4 minutes to check up on the latest Mariners scores (who, by the way, still have the lead on the Yankees for the wild card as of last night), but I knew that coming into it.
One last thing….the funniest thing that has happened on here is when they tell us to turn back our clocks. They make announcements saying “the clocks need to be retarded one hour tonight.” Since we are all immature and in college, we all think its really funny. We have already “retarded” our clocks one hour (the direction we are going is awesome because we gain an hour once every few days) and are “retarding” them another hour tonight.
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The ship is kept cold to keep down germs and illnesses. Having that many people crammed into a tiny space for so long germs get spread easily so the temps are kept down to kill them. (Anyway that is the story I was told LOL). Funny you are an Mariners fan my best friend is also and she turns into a horror if they lose. Enjoy Hawaii and your voyage.
Dude...i am so insanely jealous of you. I sailed this summer and its the way to live man. Some tips:
-Its a ship, not a boat. They will engrain that into you.
-The ship is cold to help control the spread of germs (or so i hear...)
-The internet sucks ass...but bring your computer into the stairway outside your cabin late at night and it will be better. Pretty soon everyone will be doing it.
-Snag boxes of cereal from breakfast, save them in your room. You will be happy.
-Find a happy balance of SAS trips and indy travel, for the last section of trips, get together with your friends and decide what you want to do and do it together. You'll be happy you planned ahead.
any questions, hit me up at carvill77@mac.com
also, go say hi to cabin 3029 for me...i miss it.
Tell Mezraim and Marlon in the dining room hi for me, get to know these guys. They're the best.
Good luck and bon voyage!
Mike Carvill
Summer 07
haha and wow...looks like tish and I think alike
Hey Max,
Great to read your blog! Love your enthusiasm for the trip.
Hey, sounds like you're a Mariners fan...so are we. I think there must be at least one another one on board as well... Go Mariners!
It may be "immature" to keep reminding you to retard your clocks...until you forget to read the announcment and end up missing a class or more...and be thankful that you are "retarding" and not fast forwarding like spring does (or any voyage that goes EAST instead of WEST), and lose hour after hour of sleep until you think you could sleep a year at a time.
WTF it already knows my name is danny, how do i have an account.... weird...
anyhoo, Yankees are 2 games up on the mariners for the wild card so =P to you. Second.... I just find it hilarious that you are blogging. Its sooo not Max Baez..... and then the tone in which you write, makes it even funnier. But, good hearing you are having fun, in a few hours im going to be at UMass!!!
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