Spring 2015 - Day 12
Today I needed to blog as soon as I got up. Usually I will sit in my room and just knock it out but I was really hungry. So I formulated the plan to get oatmeal and settle into the computer lab. But as soon as I had the oatmeal in my hand and was walking toward the computer lab I suddenly had doubts that I wasn't allowed to have food in the computer lab. I walked back and forth between the computer lab and the campus store multiple time like a spazz until Jen intercepted me. She was just getting out of class and wanted to do her reading for class so we made our way to the deck 6 dining room and found a table.
I sat there and blogged while she re-wrote something for her Sacred Spaces class back into her journal. Eventually she left for her next class and we made plans to meet on deck 5 for lunch at 12:05. As soon as I finished blogging I went back down to my room and worked on my landscape for my mixed media class until lunch.
In the afternoon I actually managed to find time to lay out on deck 7. In a few days it is going to be too cold for it to be comfortable to be outside. It was uncomfortably windy but the wind did help compensate for how warm it was. It did make reading difficult though and I turned in early to get ready for my class.
In drawing we went outside on the side of deck 6, we have been forever banned from working on deck 7 after the ink incident. We were working on using contouring to define the shape of an object. Ignoring where the light source is coming from the parts of the object that are closest to you will be lighter than the parts that are the farthest. I attempted to draw this huge barrel that was out on the deck but it ended up looking more like a bumblebee. It wasn't until I drew a section of the railing that I understood the assignment. It looked more like a railing than the barrel looked like a barrel.
We got out of class a little early, which was good because I needed to get to the alumni reception right at 5. It was in Tymitz square and was just a gathering of all the alumni on the ship. It gave us a chance to see who had sailed before and on what voyage. They had light snacks for us and John, the hotel director, made the lighting in Tymitz blue! It was beautiful, I hadn't seen it like that before.
We also got a Semester at Sea pin! I already have it but I will never say no to a free pin. It was a lot of fun to see all the people that have sailed before in one place, there were a lot of us! Some had sailed recently, others hadn't sailed since they were in college. One student we talked to hadn't actually sailed before by herself but had been on the ship 3 different times because her dad is an alumni. Semester at Sea is such an amazing community of people, I am blessed to be a part of it.
Eventually Jessi and I snuck away to go to dinner. It as right when they brought out the cake to celebrate a few people's birthdays. We are having cake tomorrow for mama Shelley's birthday so we didn't want to eat it then too!
As soon as we walked into the dining room we were unimpressed. Dinner just didn't look appetizing at all. We made the executive decision to eat on deck 7. We stopped by the desk right outside the deck 5 dining room to use the phone to call the other girls. There Jessi found a barf bag that someone had drawn a neck tie on. She attached it to her shirt and pretended to be a concierge at a hotel. I think she kept the necktie barf bag and will find future uses for it.
Turned out calling the girls was pointless because they walked up right at that moment. We told them our deck 7 plan and they walked into the dining room and then right back out saying we convinced them. It was really that bad of a dinner.
I had a caesar salad, which was delicious. I wish they had caesar dressing downstairs all the time. But then I guess it wouldn't be special to buy it on deck 7. we sat there for a while, talked, and laughed, and people watched.
By the way, when you don't know how to spell caesar because your email confuses you and makes you think that it's just completely not a word no matter how you spell it, and then wikipedia is so confused because it is spelled wrong and by the time you figure out the right way you have looked at it a million times, even the correct way of spelling it begins to not look like a word.
Anyway. I went to the gym by myself because Jessi was too full from her vegeburger to move. Then I worked on my landscape a little more.
Tonight is the night that we are going to cross the international date line. We were instructed to change our calendars to Tuesday the 20th before we went to sleep. But I realized that if I was to go to sleep before midnight and make my calendar the 20th then when my clock clicked over to midnight it would change the date to the 21st and I would wake up all confused. So we really need to change our clocks to the 19th before we go to bed. I thought I was so intelligent when I realized this but apparently it is common knowledge and I am not special. But they at least should give us better directions because if someone just blindly follows but we were told to do then they are going to be very confused.
So tonight we change our calendars but we don't change times at all. That means that starting tomorrow we will be 17 hours ahead of the east coast. We will them lose three more hours by the time we get to Japan bringing us to the necessary 14 hours. And I will just not live the 19th of January. So if anything interesting happens tomorrow make note that I will not have lived the day it happened on.
Its really weird if you think about it too hard.
But regardless, I'm a time traveler!
I sat there and blogged while she re-wrote something for her Sacred Spaces class back into her journal. Eventually she left for her next class and we made plans to meet on deck 5 for lunch at 12:05. As soon as I finished blogging I went back down to my room and worked on my landscape for my mixed media class until lunch.
In the afternoon I actually managed to find time to lay out on deck 7. In a few days it is going to be too cold for it to be comfortable to be outside. It was uncomfortably windy but the wind did help compensate for how warm it was. It did make reading difficult though and I turned in early to get ready for my class.
In drawing we went outside on the side of deck 6, we have been forever banned from working on deck 7 after the ink incident. We were working on using contouring to define the shape of an object. Ignoring where the light source is coming from the parts of the object that are closest to you will be lighter than the parts that are the farthest. I attempted to draw this huge barrel that was out on the deck but it ended up looking more like a bumblebee. It wasn't until I drew a section of the railing that I understood the assignment. It looked more like a railing than the barrel looked like a barrel.
We got out of class a little early, which was good because I needed to get to the alumni reception right at 5. It was in Tymitz square and was just a gathering of all the alumni on the ship. It gave us a chance to see who had sailed before and on what voyage. They had light snacks for us and John, the hotel director, made the lighting in Tymitz blue! It was beautiful, I hadn't seen it like that before.
We also got a Semester at Sea pin! I already have it but I will never say no to a free pin. It was a lot of fun to see all the people that have sailed before in one place, there were a lot of us! Some had sailed recently, others hadn't sailed since they were in college. One student we talked to hadn't actually sailed before by herself but had been on the ship 3 different times because her dad is an alumni. Semester at Sea is such an amazing community of people, I am blessed to be a part of it.
Eventually Jessi and I snuck away to go to dinner. It as right when they brought out the cake to celebrate a few people's birthdays. We are having cake tomorrow for mama Shelley's birthday so we didn't want to eat it then too!
As soon as we walked into the dining room we were unimpressed. Dinner just didn't look appetizing at all. We made the executive decision to eat on deck 7. We stopped by the desk right outside the deck 5 dining room to use the phone to call the other girls. There Jessi found a barf bag that someone had drawn a neck tie on. She attached it to her shirt and pretended to be a concierge at a hotel. I think she kept the necktie barf bag and will find future uses for it.
Turned out calling the girls was pointless because they walked up right at that moment. We told them our deck 7 plan and they walked into the dining room and then right back out saying we convinced them. It was really that bad of a dinner.
I had a caesar salad, which was delicious. I wish they had caesar dressing downstairs all the time. But then I guess it wouldn't be special to buy it on deck 7. we sat there for a while, talked, and laughed, and people watched.
By the way, when you don't know how to spell caesar because your email confuses you and makes you think that it's just completely not a word no matter how you spell it, and then wikipedia is so confused because it is spelled wrong and by the time you figure out the right way you have looked at it a million times, even the correct way of spelling it begins to not look like a word.
Anyway. I went to the gym by myself because Jessi was too full from her vegeburger to move. Then I worked on my landscape a little more.
Tonight is the night that we are going to cross the international date line. We were instructed to change our calendars to Tuesday the 20th before we went to sleep. But I realized that if I was to go to sleep before midnight and make my calendar the 20th then when my clock clicked over to midnight it would change the date to the 21st and I would wake up all confused. So we really need to change our clocks to the 19th before we go to bed. I thought I was so intelligent when I realized this but apparently it is common knowledge and I am not special. But they at least should give us better directions because if someone just blindly follows but we were told to do then they are going to be very confused.
So tonight we change our calendars but we don't change times at all. That means that starting tomorrow we will be 17 hours ahead of the east coast. We will them lose three more hours by the time we get to Japan bringing us to the necessary 14 hours. And I will just not live the 19th of January. So if anything interesting happens tomorrow make note that I will not have lived the day it happened on.
Its really weird if you think about it too hard.
But regardless, I'm a time traveler!
