Friday Jan 22, 2010

Global Studies was cancelled for today, which was nice because seas have been very rough and the Union (where that class and a variety of other events are held) is the most nauseating place to be on the ship.  Last night was probably the worst we’ve had it so far, I think it took me three hours to fall asleep, and then I had a class at eight to wake up for.  That class too, is in the Union, but there are only five of us so we all opted to sit on the floor. 

Immediately afterwards I returned to my room and passed out until lunch.

 

It turns out everyone else is still just as amazed by the whole “niceness” thing as I am.  I sat with a group of students I didn’t know or recognize at all, and all anyone asked was “so are people always this nice where you come from?” and all anyone answered was “no…”  To me, it seems everyone really does just want to meet and love everyone, they’re just too afraid to because they’re aware of their societal norms and social boundaries, and this is so new and so brief an experience that everyone figures they’ve nothing to lose.  Hopefully this voyage if anything, sets more people out into the world that are newly confident in bestowing huge and open love everywhere and with abandon.

 

This afternoon I had a meeting with the Wellness LLC about that Foodies Club we had conceived the other day. Um, I’m kind of overwhelmed but then again maybe not.  I’ve just never really been the head or chair of anything really.  Usually I’m side help.  And then today Rob (the LLC) was talking about maybe securing a minute-long spot during the pre-port cultural meetings to talk about what food to eat, avoid, etc in the various countries we’re visiting, and we went to the library to check out their resources and met up with the Dean of Students and all in all I just was feeling really weird, I really never have experienced that much followthrough on any idea I’ve ever put forth. And I have a lot of ideas, I just don’t really commit to them I suppose.  So I feel overwhelmed, because I want to be involved in so many other things and to still have time to breathe, but we haven’t actually had a “foodies” meeting so I don’t know, maybe I’m just being a baby. I probably am, I am pretty sure babiness has thus far been my comfort zone.

 

There was speed-friending tonight, I went to evening snack, went to bed, lalalala.