Spring 2015 - Day 5
The ship makes me lazy. I don't know what it is, probably the rocking, but I feel like I could take a nap. Or at least go to be really early. I have been waking up natural around 7 every morning. But I feel fully rested, which is totally not me at all. I think that I have been sleeping really heavily because my cabin is pitch black. So I am getting really good sleep and waking up feeling rested. It's a different experience.
Today I forced myself to sleep past 7 because I had absolutely nothing to do before Jessi and I went to the gym at 10:30. When I finally did get up I still I lots of time so I went and got oatmeal with the intention of sitting outside on the 6th deck and reading a book on my Kindle. My plan was foiled, it was raining. So I settled inside on the 6th deck and read Harry Potter just because. I have almost 200 books on my Kindle but I just read Harry Potter over and over again. It's an illness.
While I was sitting there the ship did this heavy shaking that happens all the time. Basically the entire room vibrates and shakes heavily for a while. It's loud and pretty unnerving if you don't know that it's totally normal. The vibrations can damage the hard drive in laptops so while it was happening everyone in the dining room picked their laptops up off the table and held them. I think we are far enough in that people are used to it by now but it was pretty entertaining the first three days when everyone would freak out.
In my drawing class today we did blind line drawing. Everyone brought in objects and we set up a huge display of still life objects in the middle of the room. There were shoes, cameras, boxes, tiny bowls, backpacks, towels, keychains, stuffed animals, other random items. It was a lot of items and we all sat around them in a circle so we each had a different perspective. We then had to stare at the display like our eyes were laser beams and follow the lines of the items slowly. As we looked we would draw wheat we were seeing with our pencils. And we weren't allowed to look down at our paper at all. My drawing is interesting. But I can totally pick out what some of the items amongst all the squiggles.
Our second exercise was using charcoal and we did the exact same thing except we were to focus on one item instead of the display as a whole. I chose a shoe. Still blindly, we had to draw the item in more detail. Mine actually looks like a shoe, a really messy shoe, but definitely a shoe.
It was a great class and I am excited for what we will be doing moving forward. My homework is to do 5 blind drawing of my hand in different positions and a blind drawing of a corner of my room. The point of the blind drawings is to help you understand that an object is made up of shapes and lines. So when you try to draw something you are not drawing that object you are drawing a bunch of shapes that together look like that object.
The rest of my day was pretty lazy. I finished the Harry Potter book I was reading (Don't worry, I started 4 chapters from the end) and then decided to read something I have never read before. So I chose The Shining. Because why not read a horror book. Sounds good to me. So I started that and got sucked into it and was going to go to Trivia Night but missed it because I was reading. Whoops.
It's alright, I still haven't been in the most social mood.
The other day Jessi and I talked about whether or not we were making less friends because we came already knowing each other. We decided yes, we are, but we also decided that we don't mind. We came to see the world, not to find our BFFs. I found my BFF last time and if I tried to find someone who would be exactly like Molly than I would fail, so I am going in with a different mindset.
Don't get me wrong, we aren't being recluses holed up in our rooms, but we also are perfectly content sitting out on Deck 7 talking about life with each other. Also, we have made friends. Andi, Jen, and Annie are pretty cool. We eat most meals together and are signed up for a few of the same programs. So I think the fact that I am already at that point and it is only day 5 is pretty good.
I also think that really good friends pop up when you aren't expecting it. Molly and I became friends so gradually I don't even know what happened. We met because we had the same class together and then happened to both be signed up to go to Paris. I made most of my friends last time by traveling with them and experiencing things together, not picking a random table at dinner and talking to someone new.
So I am perfectly content sitting in my room or in the dining room reading. I am confident that after Hawaii and probably even after Japan I will know more faces and more names and be ready to go to more things. I just know that after how I felt the first few days I shouldn't push myself.
Today I forced myself to sleep past 7 because I had absolutely nothing to do before Jessi and I went to the gym at 10:30. When I finally did get up I still I lots of time so I went and got oatmeal with the intention of sitting outside on the 6th deck and reading a book on my Kindle. My plan was foiled, it was raining. So I settled inside on the 6th deck and read Harry Potter just because. I have almost 200 books on my Kindle but I just read Harry Potter over and over again. It's an illness.
While I was sitting there the ship did this heavy shaking that happens all the time. Basically the entire room vibrates and shakes heavily for a while. It's loud and pretty unnerving if you don't know that it's totally normal. The vibrations can damage the hard drive in laptops so while it was happening everyone in the dining room picked their laptops up off the table and held them. I think we are far enough in that people are used to it by now but it was pretty entertaining the first three days when everyone would freak out.
In my drawing class today we did blind line drawing. Everyone brought in objects and we set up a huge display of still life objects in the middle of the room. There were shoes, cameras, boxes, tiny bowls, backpacks, towels, keychains, stuffed animals, other random items. It was a lot of items and we all sat around them in a circle so we each had a different perspective. We then had to stare at the display like our eyes were laser beams and follow the lines of the items slowly. As we looked we would draw wheat we were seeing with our pencils. And we weren't allowed to look down at our paper at all. My drawing is interesting. But I can totally pick out what some of the items amongst all the squiggles.
Our second exercise was using charcoal and we did the exact same thing except we were to focus on one item instead of the display as a whole. I chose a shoe. Still blindly, we had to draw the item in more detail. Mine actually looks like a shoe, a really messy shoe, but definitely a shoe.
It was a great class and I am excited for what we will be doing moving forward. My homework is to do 5 blind drawing of my hand in different positions and a blind drawing of a corner of my room. The point of the blind drawings is to help you understand that an object is made up of shapes and lines. So when you try to draw something you are not drawing that object you are drawing a bunch of shapes that together look like that object.
The rest of my day was pretty lazy. I finished the Harry Potter book I was reading (Don't worry, I started 4 chapters from the end) and then decided to read something I have never read before. So I chose The Shining. Because why not read a horror book. Sounds good to me. So I started that and got sucked into it and was going to go to Trivia Night but missed it because I was reading. Whoops.
It's alright, I still haven't been in the most social mood.
The other day Jessi and I talked about whether or not we were making less friends because we came already knowing each other. We decided yes, we are, but we also decided that we don't mind. We came to see the world, not to find our BFFs. I found my BFF last time and if I tried to find someone who would be exactly like Molly than I would fail, so I am going in with a different mindset.
Don't get me wrong, we aren't being recluses holed up in our rooms, but we also are perfectly content sitting out on Deck 7 talking about life with each other. Also, we have made friends. Andi, Jen, and Annie are pretty cool. We eat most meals together and are signed up for a few of the same programs. So I think the fact that I am already at that point and it is only day 5 is pretty good.
I also think that really good friends pop up when you aren't expecting it. Molly and I became friends so gradually I don't even know what happened. We met because we had the same class together and then happened to both be signed up to go to Paris. I made most of my friends last time by traveling with them and experiencing things together, not picking a random table at dinner and talking to someone new.
So I am perfectly content sitting in my room or in the dining room reading. I am confident that after Hawaii and probably even after Japan I will know more faces and more names and be ready to go to more things. I just know that after how I felt the first few days I shouldn't push myself.
