Saturday March 5th 2011

Boo…Today is precisely the first day of the second half of my journey around the world.  Woo…we will be in India tomorrow!!!! asdijg[iovaoie4r[.  Holy shit am I excited.  What an insane country India is.  Over 1/6th of the entire world’s population lives in this country...or about 1.2 billion people.  310,000 live in the US.  The country is 1/3rd the size of the US and contains about 3 times as many people.  It’s crazy to think about. You know what else is crazy to think about?  How easy it is to get some serious runs in India.  Tonight in pre-port Dr. Laura and Dr. Bill rapped about diarrhea.  Apparently it is very hard to avoid it in India and we should be taking Pepto on the reg. I’m sure the food will be fantastic but the after effects may do some serious damage on my body…and my toilet.  It’s funny that today is also crew appreciation day.  Semester at Sea strategically plans this so we can thank our cabin stewards for cleaning up our rooms every day of the voyage thus far, then dumps us in India the very next day.  Thanks for the first 52 days Rene…sorry about the next week…here’s 10 bucks.
We are over 75% done with our classes already because we have had so many sea days. That means the second part of this program is just going to fly by because every few days we are in another country.  Over the next 5 weeks, I have each of my classes only 4 times!  That’s less than once a week per class.  I will attach my schedule but it is funny how quickly the countries come now.  We are in India tomorrow then a few days of class then Singapore, 2 days then Vietnam, a few days then china.  And so on.  Everyone is looking forward to this leg of the trip, but unfortunately I am afraid it will go by a lot faster.
7 hours outside Chennai, India.  Wish me luck.