Greetings!

So today was the first day of classes!  The classes I’m taking are global studies, human voice in performance, anthropology of food and sacred places.  Today I just had global studies and the human voice in performance.  They both seem like cool classes.  Global studies has almost 300 students in the class though because only 2 sections are offered and the whole ship has to take it.  It was overwhelming though because I am not used to having classes that big since the max size at Monmouth is only 37 students and I never had a class that big.  My voice class seems awesome.  We sat on the floor in a circle the whole class and she told us to wear gym clothes or sweats and be barefoot for the class because it is a lot of breathing and stretching exercises.  My classes ended at 12:15 and then I went and grabbed some lunch.  After that I just sat in the piano bar and sent out some emails and what not.
Let me back track though….
I flew into San Diego on Saturday and met my roommate Tess, who is actually one of my friends here on the ship.  On Sunday we took a bus to Ensenada, Mexico, and my shuttle was at 8 am and we got there around 11.  Sunday was spent moving in, meeting people and orientation.  My roommate is Neha, and she is from Michigan.  We were supposed to leave on Sunday at 5 but because of immigration issues, we didn’t leave the port until around 8ish.  It’s crazy that this is where I’m going to be living for the next 100+ days! 
Yesterday was filled with orientation… aka lectures.  It got pretty boring.  At night though was our involvement fair.  I signed up for pretty much everything!  I signed up for extended family which is when you get set up with a lifelong learner or  a professor on the ship and other students and you start a little family and eat meals together whenever.  I also signed up to hang out with the kids that are on the ship, so I will be doing anything from babysitting, tutoring, or just hanging out with them.  I also signed up for yoga, meditation, students of service (which is we do a bunch of community service projects in port) and chi guong (?) (I don’t know what it is really called cuz I kept calling it the wrong thing last night, but its apparently a dance meditation type thing).  Last night was trivia night too!  Our team was pretty good but the last 2 rounds we totally fell apart. 
That’s pretty much it for me!  I can’t wait to get to Hawaii and get tan!