Day 98. Global Ends!

I was awoken this morning very abruptly by none other than Captain Jeremy.

He alerted us as soon as he was done talking, we would have a mandatory all-passenger muster station drill. We're fairly used to these by now, and the whole routine is down- grab your lifejacket, put on warm clothes, and go to your muster station (mine is A1). We're required to do a drill once a month so this was our 3rd or 4th time shuffling up there, and the urgency has definitely disapeared. Instead of freaking out when the ship's general alarm sounded, I moseyed out of bed, brushed my teeth (I figured my morning breath would be the biggest health hazard of the ship), and then ran upstairs to the outside deck.

Ahhh, mornings aboard the Explorer.



The rest of the day was spent cramming for our global studies final, which happened at 1600. It was tough. I was annoyed at a lot of the questions, but I'm not getting too worked up about it. After the test, we had a great sunset-filled dinner and just hung out all night laughing, playing scrabble and talking. The ship also showed 3 new episodes of 'The Office' as well. It was nice to do anything besides study. Tomorrow is a "study day" and I plan on sleeping in and relaxing. I have a short multiple-choice test the following day, so I'll review some of that, and we'll be in Guatemala before we know it!

Thanks for all your emails, as always.

Talk to you tomorrow!

Greg