Day 36. Back to Reality. Indian-Style.

First, I know I still haven’t posted my South Africa blog. I started writing it today, and I’ll have it done tomorrow. I had to postpone finishing it because of a significant event on the ship that is tomorrow: our first global studies exam.

Global studies is the class taken by everybody aboard the explorer every day. It is all encompassing and highly detailed. Most of the time, it’s pretty interesting as well, as it follows our itinerary and focuses on each country.

However, today has been less than great, since we have the exam looming tomorrow. For that reason, much of the day that we weren’t in class we spent studying…or trying to at the very least.

We were delayed 12 hours coming out of Cape Town and didn’t pull out until 0800 this morning. We were told, however, that as long as the weather cooperates, our arrival into Mauritius in 4 days should be unchanged. Speaking of weather…we can feel a lot of it. This afternoon, we officially rounded the Cape of Good Hope, marking the southern-most point in our voyage. We are heading north once again, and for the first time, we are NOT in the Atlantic! Hello, Indian Ocean! The Cape of Good Hope is notorious for jostling ships of all sizes as two major oceans collide together, and we’re certainly feeling it.

For now, wish me luck on tomorrow’s exam, and I’ll try and get that blog out afterwards.

Talk Tomorrow,

Greg.