we get to japan on tuesday!! woohooo!so here is a quick little update about what is going on....our voyage theme is sustainability and in global studies we have to do a group project and if it wins the grant, it will be used to teach high school seniors about sustainability. my groups project is going to be about poverty, and we are going to try and live off of 2 dollars for 1 day in each country and document it to show that there is a little less than 50% of the worlds population living off of 2 dollars a day. thats insane! i'm doing it in south africa, and i plan on doing a district tour also to get some great footage and what not.we have a test in global studies tonight. boooooo tests! it's so hard to get any studying done because it is so distracting on this boat aaaaand we are having rough seas.our captain actually went 190 nautical miles out of the way to avoid rough seas and what not. there are so many rumors going around about what is causing the rough seas. nauturally, the seas are going to be rougher as we get to japan because we are out of the tropics and it is cold in japan which makes the sea rough. but there is also a rumor that there was a volcano erruption in japan, which is causing mini tsunami's and if we went on the path we were supposed to go we would have hit them. there was also another rumor that the coast guard was going to be coming onto our ship until we got to japan. so now we are going to japan, and instead of the waves hitting us broadside like they did from mexico to hawaii (broadside means that the ship rocks from left to right)... we are now hitting the waves head on. so the ship will hit a wave and come right back down... its almost like when you float to the top of a wave before it breaks and you like flop back down on the other side... thats what we're doing. oh and my one professor had dinner with the captain one night, and they asked the captain that on a one to 10 scale, how bad was it from mexico to hawaii... and the captain said a 3! a 3! i dont even want to know what a 10 is.. its probably abandoning ship! and that won't happen.speaking of the captain though... i saw him today! and he said hello to me! it totally made my day! i woke up all early today to go to breakfast and then i sat in the 6th floor dining hall studying for my class and test, and then i got cold so i went to go down to my room to get a sweater, and i was walking down the steps and he was walking up them and i said hi to him and hten he said hello to me. it made my day. hahaha. well thats about it for now. nothing really has been new. just everyone wants to get to land and have this trip finally start! ok see yaaa!