Midterms!

What a busy few days! Midterms started today, and leading up to midterms we had... sea olympics, gods and goddesses dance, sea meetings, all ship picture, study groups, group meetings, and our sea's social in the faculty lounge! Needless to say I'm exhausted and am going to sleep in tomorrow on my "day off." In about an hour I'll be half way through with midterms, I took one this morning already- and have one more. Tomorrow I'll finish writing a midterm essay, and on my next class day I'll pass that in and take one more midterm exam... which should be easy because I get a little preview today as I have the same professor for two classes- they should be similar.

Only two more days of classes after this until we're in Chennai, that's CRAZY! I thought for sure we'd all get cabin fever and go nuts on the 11 day crossing but I feel like I could spend another week on the boat at this point. It doesn't feel like it's been that long at all. We're currently trying to conserve water for Chennai, because the ship can't suck up water once we start nearing India because it's just so polluted, so we have to use what we've already sucked up and then buy in port which is really expensive. Some people are taking it seriously (one kid is really excited that he was told it was acceptable not to shower) and some people have been heard not taking it seriously at all... I guess if we don't conserve enough water they'll have to start shutting it off at certain times of day, probably morning and night- to force people to stop using it. Uh oh! I've been trying to take shorter showers but I can't go without showering!