1st Day of classes!!!!

September 1, 2005

Well I have finished my first day of classes today and just got back from lunch. The food on the ship is really good, there are two dinning rooms one formal and one that has inside and outside dinning on the back of the ship. There is also a snack bar by the pool, and all the bars serve like popcorn and candy. The food is really good (which we were all pretty surprised about for example last night they had a full salad bar and then for dinner there was steak cooked medium, grilled Mahi Mahi potatoes wedged steamed broccoli and cauliflower, greens beans, fresh breads, cheeses, and fresh like grapes and bananas and chocolate cake.
As far as my schedule on A days I have class from 8 to 10:45 am and on B days I have class from 8 to 12:00. It is funny because today both of my classes were held in the show room/lounge. Both professors are very interesting my business teacher is originally from London and went to school at Cambridge and has lived mainly in Australia for the past several years. I am actually already learning a lot. One such topic that we have learned is the concept of a main principal that Americans hold so dear to them being Equality. But we were asked well what exactly is it, and which particular one is the one you wish for your home land. Although there are several different types we came to the conclusion there were two main ones: Equality opportunity and Equality outcome. Personally I think Opportunity is the best and something truly America is doing really well. Now this can get pretty touchy but think of with the student loans available a lot of students are able to chose (in some cases bring on debt) weather or not to work or study or do both. Anyways.
Back to the trip, I am meeting amazing people from all over the place a kid that lives down the hall is from New Delhi, India who has been giving us a lot of advice on the India adventure we have planned. As well as people from China, Venezuela, Mexico City, Monterrey Mexico and California, Peru etc. etc. and all over the US ranging from schools from Yale MIT, etc. etc. Overall there are 683 students 66% female and 34% male with about 6 people so far that are from Texas.
Oh and having the Suite 3001 has been so awesome it makes traveling the world so awesome. There is so much room, closet space, desk space, two TVs/phone etc. It is pretty cool on deck at night as well because until really late we left at around 11:30pm last night and the people were still a ton of people out on deck and socializing. The only problem is that there are so many people that want to work out that you have to sign up for the machines early so I have a treadmill reserved today at 3:00 and you have to sign up at least 24 hours in advance to get one. It is pretty funny because they have a full spa available onboard with massages, sauna, and all the salon services at pretty reasonable prices. I did my first batch of in room washing yesterday witch was pretty interesting I had a close line run all over the room. Well today is Thursday and we get into Venezuela on Saturday not too long yet. Tonight we have our first pub night so that should be fun. The cabin Stewart just came in to clean the room so I am going to run, talk to you all soon miss you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!