Thursday January 28th, 2010 - Honolulu day 2

 

I slept in for awhile, deposited some money into my shipboard account, and was supposed to meet honey for lunch or Yogurtland or something.  That didn’t work out, but I did end up getting lunch at a Mediterranean café with Nat and then hitting the beach for half an hour.  The water felt fabulous, but again with the rocks, I was not going to swim out too far and cut myself on all the coral and rocks, so I stayed in the shallow area and got safely and painlessly wet and salty.  On our way back to the ship we stopped at Haagen Daas and I got a brilliant chocolate peanut butter milkshake.  I love peanut butter chocolate anything, and am not sure what they have in the way of shakes in other countries, so this was a nice time to indulge.

OH, and let me fill you in, Hawaiian water is the best I have ever tasted.  Straight out the fountain.  I think I hit up every single water fountain on the way to the beach.  It was so pure and revitalizing,  I’m kind of pissed about it in an inexplicable way. 

            Later that night I called some people on the seventh deck, and then found that a bunch of students were outside waiting for the boat to leave.  I did too for awhile and then went back inside to my room.  By this time the boat was getting kind of rocky already and everything smelled like sulfur, so rather than do homework I just went to bed very very early.  Or like, eleven pm.

I’m really excited for the rest of the trip.  Not for the twelve day stretch we’re facing of classes and boat swaying, but Hawaii was a really good honeymoon phase for what’s to come.

A lot of students or people not on SAS have the impression that this trip is just a glorified booze cruise, and I have to say that may be entirely true.  For some people.  Which is silly.  But for the rest of us, or perhaps I should just speak for myself and for some of my friends who agree, this is a really godo opportunity to apply lessons in real situations.  I feel like it helps me learn a lot better to be able to do things like learn about Polynesian families and then go out and be able to compare them for myself.  It’s really cool, and a really ideal way to learn for the students who look at it in such a way.  Or, the way it’s intended to be.