Back on the Ship

We are back on the ship and sailing from Vietnam. We had to be back by 8 pm last night and took off at about 5 am this morning. We make a stop in Singapore to refuel I guess, but aren't allowed to get off. Kind of a bummer but oh well. India in 7 days so that is plenty of excitement.

 

It is really weird to think about school right now though. We have been traveling so much that now when we have a stretch of 6 days of class in 7 days, it seems like it is going to be a pain. When you think about it though, this is basically a normal week of school for most people, so we really are incredibly fortunate.

 

My Vietnam blog is going to take a couple of days. I have a big class project tomorrow and still need to get rested back up to 100%. After I do that though I'll get my blog put together and submit it. It will definitely all be posted before we get to India, probably even sooner. I think I've done a pretty good job of staying up to date.

 

I really enjoyed Vietnam a lot but wish we had more time there. Like I said before, it is so incredibly different than the US that it is overwhelming to the senses. The people are incredibly nice though, the stuff is cheap, and there is a lot of fun to be found there. Cambodia was entirely different than Vietnam, so I can't wait to tell everyone about that too.

 

Everything here is going to be mundane for a while. Just classes to deal with and the usual stuff. We DO have the Sea Olympics in a few days so keep my sea, the Baltic, in your thoughts because I fully expect us to win.

 

Oh and while on my Cambodia trip I had the chance to meet Luke, who works for Semester at Sea back in Charlottesville. Really awesome guy, but anyway I was telling him about how I had read on other blogs before I came that Global Studies was impossibly hard and boring. He requested that I mention how it is not that way anymore, so here that is. The class has been improved a great deal from what I can tell, and if any future SASer stumbles upon this, don't dread Global Studies, it is really pretty interesting and not bad at all from a difficulty standpoint.

 

Look for my first thing about what I actually did in Vietnam in a couple of days!

 

Thomas