Settled in...well sorta...

*insert StarTrek sound*

Captain's Log: 

We’re through our first two days of class and I feel like I just read the ‘S’ encyclopedia.  Both Mal and I have successfully missed part or all of a class due to unsuccessful alarm attempts.  Unfortunately, (or fortunately…however you look at it) the ship has a nice rolling feature that gently rocks you to sleep. 

Classes are a whole different animal… 
Because of the short time given to learning (it’s still not a cruise) professors feel the need to assign countless pages for reading in order to properly turn your brain to a gray-ish mush.  Each night has roughly 60-90 pages of reading for the next day and some studying for quizzes and papers.  Also, we've been loosing an hour every night...this makes the natives quite restless.

Now that I’m done complaining about being on this ¾-size cruise ship sailing to the Mediterranean, I’ll move on.  Both our roommates are pretty good people…luckly.  I just discovered my roommate enjoys eating Trisciut crackers at 12:30 pm while lying in bed…that was a nice touch…  Mal’s roommate is a nice girl from Nebraska (who is CU’s rival…so I’m all for them!).

The food is pretty much awesome!  They have been very good about having a variety of things to eat for different people.  You can also have lunch with the captain if you have the juevos (indirect Spanish translation: “courage?” ;-) “hey Swap, how bout another brewsky?”

But for now it’s time to tackle another handful of pages.

I hope everyone finds something more exciting to do in their lives than read this shoutout to the galactica!


Lovin’ it,

John and Mally

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