Entries tagged with "ship"
Good Morning Internet!
posted by srah on June 24, 2007 5:51 PM
Tags: in spanish, language, language week, memes, ship, spanish, travel
Or rather, good evening. But I've been so lazy today it might as well be the morning for all that I've gotten done. Anyway, I'm back in the USSR. Photos from my voyage can be found here and videos of fascinating things like whales spouting and cliff divers cliff-diving can be found here. Now I must go and prepare for Language Week! All this time in Mexico and in on-ship Spanish classes has inspired me not to devote the entire week to Arabic. Soy hispanohablante, yo! Por el momento. Hasta que yo olvido todo mi español¹. Ha! What I love...
Walk the boat
posted by srah on June 16, 2007 5:16 PM
I was sad to discover that this ship doesn't have a walking track so I can't do laps around the deck. But thanks to that treadmill, I was able to get to 10,000 steps yesterday. You haven't lived until you've tried to walk on a treadmill on a ship that's anchored out at sea! I stumbled from one edge of the belt to the other and back and forth. It was quite an adventure in balance!...
We're sailing with a cargo full of love and devotion
posted by srah on June 14, 2007 2:45 AM
Tags: music, ship, sleep, travel
Hi! I have had about 8 hours of sleep in the last 48 hours! That actually sounds like a lot more than it feels. I have been really stressing out about this trip: packing, making my connections, adjusting to life on the ship, worrying about seasickness, etc... all while dealing with a lot of other stuff like finding a new apartment (done!) and keeping up with students while I'm out of the office and while the university changes email systems during my absence. So with all the things to worry about (and I love to worry!) I haven't been sleeping...
You say oyster and I say erster¹
posted by srah on June 13, 2007 11:30 PM
Tags: a night at the opera, movies, pirates of the caribbean, shall we dance, ship, texas, travel
I was surprised, as we started our descent into Houston, to see lots and lots of forests of green trees. Everything I know about Texas I learned from the movies, so I expected it to be all brown and sandy with little scrubby bushes, rather than huge forests of green trees. I expected it to be more like the Australian Outback, which I am also very familiar with from my vast experience of... watching The Thorn Birds miniseries once. Also, I didn't see Rock Hudson or James Dean or even Sal Mineo. All of my lifetime experience with Texas (2.5...
