Just South of Saba

Sooo, it's Saturday night and the second day of classes is over. We've passed land twice today, the first tiny island being Saba. After a bit of research I found out it is owned by the Netherlands, has a land area of roughly 5 square miles, and a population of a little over 1,000 people of whom live in four towns. It also features as medical school. And that's Saba. Oh! And it's home to the western hemisphere's shortest landing strip. Couldn't forget that! We also just went by another island. Rumor has it that it might be St. Lucia but no one knows for sure.

We'll be porting in Dominica either tonight or early tomorrow morning and I'm excited to get off for our first stop! We'll be there until ship time at 1800 Monday night and all I have planned is an FDP for my Oceanography class tomorrow. Shouldn't be too tough, all we're doing is taking a hike, visiting some bubbling lakes, and then going snorkeling at the Champagne Reef which I'm pretty excited for. I hope I don't get burned again though! The weather is so perfect it's hard not to be out in the sun all the time. We keep laughing that this is our school for the next couple months!

Speaking of, I've had all my classes now and I'm really excited for most of them. Global Cultures will help prepare us for each country and the generalities of the trip. My Food and Culture class is what I'm most excited for--the readings have even been interesting! Oceanography might be kinda of sciency for my taste but it will be interesting to learn about the oceans while traveling across them. Journalism and the Future of Democracy is my fourth class. I think it would be interesting if I was on the reporting side of journalism...too bad I'm not. But those are my classes! Like I said, the readings have been fairly interesting so far and while on a boat there's not much to do other than homework. I think I can handle laying out with a book for an hour or two anyway. =)

That's about it. Seasickness completely gone for now. I'm hoping it doesn't come back when we board after Dominica again! Oh, and the sunset tonight was gorgeous as we were eating dinner! What more can we ask for!?