Italy

June 24^th

This trip began a little over a week ago.  Today is only day eight but I feel as if I have been with these people for months.  Last night Tim, Jordan, Cherisse, Nexus, Grace, Tia and I met up around Midnight and sat and talked about subjects from parental relationship, social relationship, school, beliefs religion and so much more.  It was a very interesting conversation, and it made me feel so proud that a group of intellectual young majority African American young adults can have so many differences but still come to a medium. This conversation lasted until a little before 6am, and Jordan and I went to his room, to get a book and we looked out of his window and saw LAND!!!  It was so amazing to see land after seven days at sea. 

We as a group went outside and my professor Angela Davis was up there as well ahead of us looking at the land.  I feel like it is so crazy how even though she is our professor, she was just as excited as we were being that it was her 1^st time at sea.  We stayed up there until 7am, then sat and ate breakfast on the dock.  It is truly amazing watching a sunset overseas.  I realized once again how blessed I am along with all of these other students to see such a sight.

After breakfast I showered and took a much needed nap, for my long day ahead of me. At 10am I had a Activity called History and the Role of Women in Cadiz, Spain with my Professor Angela Davis. The rest of the day was basically leisure, I walked around the city and basically got a feel for it all.

June 25

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEXUS!!!

Ever wonder why America does not enforce students to learn a second language??? Well I did this weekend, the language barrier is very interesting and it really doesn’t help when 12 year olds are speaking three or more languages. Today multiple plans were made but for the majority plans went through. Tia, Shanae, Jordan and I went looking for a bank and post office and of course got lost because these streets are worst then the village. They twist and turn and they have random dead ends. Finally we went looking for a electronic store because my camera broke L…  I have been in love with my Nikon S60 and now I had to downgrade to a Nikon S210.

A group of us too many to name took a ferry to another beach on a different island of Cadiz and this was one of the windiest beaches I have ever been to, two people in our group went topless as well, I am not that brave!  Towards the end of the night Tia and I finally found a restaurant of food we really enjoy.  We thought we would NEVER find one! Wine here is usually only about 1.25euros a glass which makes it maybe 3 American dollars so that is a really god thing about Spain.  Later on some of the crew went to a club but I was so drained that I just decided to Spain in and take a nap.  That nap ended up being a full blown sleep and at 4am Tia called me hysterically crying because she heard the nerve of Michael Jackson’s death. I was up until about 7am and then it was off for Sevilla.

June 26^th

Last night well this morning was a blur, I watched Kill Bill about three times in a row because it was on loop on the ship’s channel.  When I finally awoke I got dressed an ready or the trip to Sevilla, we took the bus which was a smooth ride and finally I was in a city I could say I would LOVE to come back to. We went and saw the outside of the Cathedral in which Christopher Coloumbus’ grave is.  We went and saw the Garden and played in the park like big kids with locals.  We basically just saw pretty touristy things until night time when we went to the club I can honestly say I had a blast. Some man basically took us in so we did not have to stand on line and he gave us all two shots to start. We partied until 4am, and when we decided to leave the people thought we were crazy for leaving so early being that usually clubs don’t shut down until 7 or 8am. 

June 27th

Around 6:30am Tia, Sherese and I walked the 35minute walk back to the bus station, and saw all of the party goers in the streets heading home.  When we got back to the port I basically just finished contacting my family, uploading and sending pictures, and just the little random things I love to do with my spare time. As of right now I am sitting in Nexus room about to complete this assignment for Global Studies, this class is definitely getting the best of me.