February 13th

Tuesday, February 13^th

Mark your calendars. Today was my official seasick day. I headed over to the union for Global studies, which was my first class. The union, as I have mentioned, is probably the rockiest place on the ship. I was really hungry and I guess that made things worse, but I was definitely not feeling well. I tried to focus on the lecture, but it was getting harder to do so since I felt so nauseous.

So after global studies I hurried back to my room, ate some wheat thins and took a nap. After I got up, it was time for lunch and I managed to eat an ok amount. I had two cups of soup among other things so that was pretty nice. I took a seasickness pill and took another short nap. So much for the plan to get some work done.

I was actually planning to just sleep through my issues of the twentieth century class, but I forced myself to go and it wasn’t bad. Yay.

Those seasick meds do wonders. I try not to rely on it much, but days like this you just have to.

At 6:30 I had my first meeting for the GLBTA group leaders. I’m really excited for this group. The people I’m gonna be working closely with are great. Professor Murphy and her partner Sue, along with the registrar Dia seem like amazing people. And of course, Ryan and Drew are great. One of the big things we’re gonna try to do is connect with members of the GLBT community in each port. That would be so cool. We could learn about the challenges in each country, as well as inspire them with the situation in the US.

After the meeting, I treated myself to a pizza dinner on the 7^th floor deck rather than the usual dinner in the dining hall. Yummm. I had a good talk with the people who worked there (a guy from Jamaica and a girl from the Philippines) and I also met this guy named Vince who was from Hawaii. He was pretty cool. Talked about Japanese food and stuff.

And then another meeting, this time for the diversity committee leaders. There were a few girls I had already “met” via facebook. One of them had stayed in Japan for 2 weeks with her relative when she was in elementary school. She attended a public Japanese school for those 2 weeks and it was fun to talk to her about that. Then there was this other girl who had dated Andre that just graduated from LFC. She knew all the buildings and stuff which was weird in a way. You just never know who you’re gonna meet in life.

The day ended by having to move our clocks forward an hour AGAIN. It’s our third time in the voyage doing this, and it always seems to happen the night before the day I have 8am classes. This is just so mean. I want my sleep.