Today was the only full day we had between Barcelona and Naples so we only had one class- global studies. We ended up just going to Nikki’s room after breakfast and watching it on the TVs, since it streams. I fell asleep at least 4 times it was soooo boring. Then, instead of having all our other classes we had Sea Olympics!

Basically, each hallway is a different sea (I was Caribbean Sea!) and they compete against each other not only for the title, but for the honor of leaving the ship first in Boston! So there were loads of competitions- volleyball, tug of war, boat building, a relay race, and limbo… to just name a few. It literally lasted all day long and was wayyyy fun. Amanda and I are in the same sea so we signed up for the relay team. We had to play flip cup (with water), move a folder using only our backs, and dig for coins in the pool. We were super awesome at it all and ended up winning the entire race! It was awesome. The limbo was hilarious cause all the kids on the ship were playing too… and comptletely dominating (well, duh). Our sea has this massive 6’2” guy who decided to play… and got 4th place!!! It was nuts. He is incredibly flexible ahhaa. The last event was a synchronized swimming comp, which turned real raunchy real fast. All the good teams had all boys dancing to girly songs. Ours was NSYNC “Bye bye bye” hahaha and it was awesome. We won that as well! So when the scores came up, we were tied to the Baltic Sea. Naturally, the only way to solve such a problem is a dance off!! So, we did. Baltic went first, and totally BLEW. So we had it in the bag. We kind of cheated though, cause we used the kids for cute factor, but who cares. So yayayyayay we won!! Except, I don’t know if I’m gonna like getting off first before everyone, it makes me sad to think of it. But yeah, brag rights. CARIBBEAN SEA ROCKS.

At about 11pm today we finally started planning Italy, which is tomorrow. We kind of have leeway (not really) cause we are staying in Naples for 2 days for FDPs (Pompeii & Herculaneum and hiking Mt Vesuvius), but no way. This is gonna drive me insane. The only thing we have booked for sure is seeing the Vatican at 1300 on the 4th. Woohoo. No trains, no hostels, no nothing…. Oh well, see where Italy takes us I suppose!

On a slightly more depressing note, Greek riots are making me nervous. The dean already gave a speech about the safety of the student’s being the greatest priority, so not a good sign. Plus, where would we even go?!? Israel? Ha, right. So bummer to the max, let’s hope it doesn’t come to that!

Well, full day in the morning- filming a piece of our volcano documentary for the geohazards course, visiting Pompeii and Herculaneum with my prof and Nikki in the morning from 0930-1730 and then going out for Andrew’s birthday (who totally walked up as I was taping a happy birthday card to his door, oops…)- so peace out. Ciao!


Ps. None of us know Italian. We are totally screwed. ZOMG hahahaha