C9- Uh... My boring days are better than your best?

Yes, the title was pretty bragging. But wait, I have justifications.

So today was the first day of class almost two weeks. I woke up and enjoyed breakfast outside with the view of the ocean, joined by my friend and fellow French student Michelle. She was very worried about French class. Admittedly, I was a bit too, feeling like I forgot how to produce French while trying to figure out how to ask a girl out in Italian ("Volete andare al cinema?", admittedly not that hard, we're up to three!), but I kept a cool exterior as I helped her do the French homework for the day.

The day passed as usual, sat through French, sat through Psychology, ate food with the Bahamians, went to Global Studies, took a nap. Nothing spectacular.

When I woke up, I looked out the window and we were passing by a volcano. It wasn't very big, but it was really cool, because you could see smoke come out of the top. Apparently it's called Mt. Stromboli or something. I would've hoped it would be more epically named.

While I was sitting down with the Bahamians as they badgered one another, all the white people gathered around one area of the boat. Confused, we walked over, only to find dolphins! Dolphins! DOLPHINS! They were jumping in and out of the waves the boat was making. You don't understand how shocked and happy I was to see them, because I had been missing them several times before. Dreams do come true, ladies and gentlemen. I have pictures to prove it, too!

Then we got closer to the Straits of Messina, the area between the Italian peninsula and Sicily. Straits make everyone excited. Conveniently, the sunset went down, and I had my camera. And now my bucket list is lighter...

Also, we watched Harry Potter.

Ending the day with a Filipinos At Sea story.

afrancisco@semesteratsea.net