Off to Spain!

After an entire week at sea, it is so exciting that we will be arriving in Spain tomorrow! Finally! This trip has been amazing so far, and I wouldn’t change anything we’ve done so far, but I’m definitely ready to get to port. We’ll be arriving in Cadiz tomorrow morning, and as soon as this boat is cleared by customs- I’m off to explore… with all our new friends of course ☺

As much as I miss all my friends and family back home, the people we have met on this trip have been amazing. The guy-girl ratio on the ship is 23-77. So it’s pretty safe to say the guys are outnumbered! But even though it’s so unbalanced it hasn’t been weird at all. The friends we’ve made are from all over, and we’ve become close already. Taylor, Elaine, and I have met on other guy from UW named Zack, and there’s two other huskies on here that we’ve yet to meet but I’ve been trying to figure out who they are! I’m bound to meet them at some point though so I’m not too worried.

Classes have been going pretty too well. If I had one complaint about it- it would be that the ones I signed up for are almost too easy! I know that sounds like a weird thing to be whining about, but it’s really hard to focus on meditating ( in my stress management class) or on analyzing my personal beliefs ( my beliefs and perceptions class) when all I want to do it travel and experience things. I am really grateful for them at the same time though, because there’s practically no homework in two of them. In our global studies class( which is my favorite by far, and is really interesting/applicable to the places we’re going) we have a midterm and paper due soon. It was so nice to write the paper today sitting out on the back of the ship and watching the sun on the water and the ships off in the distance. I still can’t believe I’m getting college credit for this!

Tonight we’re going to be preparing for tomorrow and heading to bed early. We want to make sure to get the most out of every minute of the trip, even if it means getting up at the break of dawn! The time difference has been killing us so far (it’s about a 9 hour difference), but we’re wanting to catch up on as much sleep tonight as we possibly can!

Miss you all back home, and I’ll try and keep updated as soon as I can!

Adios ☺