Today was our last full day on the ship.. which was kind of bittersweet. I had been ready to come home once we set off from Morocco, but now that I'm almost home.. I kind of don't want to get off the ship. I really can't wait for things like my own bed, American food, my car, seeing my family and friends and such.. but this was such a great experience that I'm not ready for it to be over.
I woke up early this morning for breakfast.. and then I got to work on packing up all my stuff!! Our luggage had to be packed and ready by 1pm today so we could drop it off so the crew would have it ready for us when we get to Norfolk. Packing was interesting... but I got almost everything to fit! I still have some stuff left in my room that I either will be using/wearing tomorrow or just throwing away.. so I hope I judged everything right and I don't have a lot of extra things tomorrow that I don't know where to put! hahaha. It's soooo weird opening my closet and seeing nothing because it used to be stuffed full of clothes and shoes.. I don't like it. I don't like my luggage being away from me.. I hope I didn't pack up anything that I need!!
So after I had all my bags packed.. I went to lunch and then back to my room to wait for my Sea to be called so I could take my luggage down to the 'designated area' .. My Sea got called around 2ish I think and I took my extermely heavy (3) suitcases down the hall and then didn't know exactly what to do because the elevators were stuffed and I only needed to go down 1 floor... so thankfully my cabin Steward Shane was there to save the day.. so he carried my heaviest suitcase down the stairs for me and I took the other two which weren't nearly as heavy! Yay for Shane.. I'm surreee gonna miss him!!
Once our luggage was delivered we went all the way upstairs to the faculty/staff lounge to get our passports and our certificate of completion of the Semester at Sea Program... and then at 5 we had Convocation or 'Commencement' where we all graduated from Semester at Sea! It was kind of long and boring, but it was cool because now I am an SAS Alumni!!!
After I graduated, I walked around the ship and made a sort of video tour of most places of the ship so people could see what my home for 67 days looked like! It's gonna be a gooood one!
Tonight at 9 we had our last Pre-Port which was really funny because we got a green sheet which we always got for the other countries that had the trips that were going on.. the currency exchange, customs and things like that... and the green sheet for Virginia had things like 'homemade meal' and 'tour of Norfolk Airport' and just random stupid things.. it was really funny! Pre-Port was good.. a few people cried, so that was cute!?? After preport we had a multi-media show where we watched a video and slideshow of the voyage which were both really good. Then after that was over.. we had an iPod Dance Party.. our IT guy, Casey came up with it.... basically you had to download the mix he made and put it on your iPod, but we weren't allowed to listen to it yet.... then all at once the about 60 or so people who did it, all pressed play and you danced to the song playing on your iPod. Everyone's was the same, but if you took your iPod out, it looked really funny because everyone was dancing together, but there was no music! The dance lasted for about 34 minutes and every once in awhile an instructor would come on the song and tell you to do things.. first it was just jump, or wave your right arm.. then it split us into 2 groups where one group threw 1 shoe in the middle and the other group got it and you had to dance w. whoever had your shoe! hahaha... then we had to go around dancing to different parts of the ship.. that part was HILARIOUS becasue some people had no clue what was going on.. so they looked at us like we were crazy! It was soo much fun!
The iPod party ended on deck 7 way at the front of the ship outside which was nice b/c our captain again shut off all the outside lights so we could stargaze again... and this time i saw a shooting star!!!! It was sooo cool and I got to make a wish! haha. Also, I saw Mars, which is soooo bright because apparantly it's the closest its been in a really long time. So that was neat.
And now it's 12:30 and I'm about to go to bed, because our wake up call tomorrow morning is going to be before 6am!!!!!! Breakfast is only running from 6-7, so we've gotta get up and get to breakfast in time. Then, I'm going to come back to my room, shower, get ready, and pack up the rest of my odds and ends, and then it'll be a waiting game until I get to get off!!!
I can't believe I will be back in America tomorrow.. it's soo weird.. but as I said, I'm excited to be home, but sad to leave the ship :(
Next time I write, I'll be in the USA!
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