OH CANADA!!!

Wowzer’s, I have so much to write, and already so little time.

It had been a while since I had been to Canada and I forgot how small things inside of Canada are… Like the randomly placed signs that face the woods on the side of the highway… weird, eh?

The trip was relatively decent, although I burnt through my phone, camera, and iPod battery 4 hours into the trip : /

We got to the hotel around… oh…9ish? Mayhaps. Checked in, and did whatever before bed. We spent the next day poking around Halifax…meaning mom and Reza (her fiancée for those of you who didn’t know- were constantly fighting)…By the way, Reza is an awful driver, worse than my mother… I seriously thought I was going to die before I got to the ship.

Today was the big day. Student workers were to arrive at the Halifax Seaport, Pier 21, Pavilion 23 at 9am for check-in…we got there at 7:30 :p. The MV Explorer arrived about 8, and come 9:30 or so, us work study students and life-long learners got to check in.
Zerio luck would have it that they had to in-depth check my bags…all because of laundry detergent (what the eff). And then I beeped going through the scanner, so the woman pulled out the handheld scanner, and did a full body scan- to which nothing beeped… so They double checked me through the walk-through scanner…it beeped again. This process repeated a few times before she called over a group of people to figure out what was beeping. After assuring them and proving I had nothing in my pockets (because these pants didn’t have pockets…) they let me board.

The ship is awesome. And although my “estate room” isn’t huge (Oh yes So-Ruffians…smaller than Heather and Hil’s room)… It’s actually quite spacious, and a lot of my stuff fit. My roommate isn’t hear yet, but I know her name because I accidentally opened her school book box (sorry :/)

My work study is pretty sweet, there’s 9 Ambassadors, and 2 work directly with Grant (our supervisor) the other seven of us (including me) get to essentially manage and create events on the ship. Tonight we’re picking up Maria Cano- a girl from Spain who will journey with us the next few days until we reach the port of Cadiz, Spain. Me and a few other ambassadors get to pick her up from the airport (all expenses paid) :]

This work study is pretty flippin’ sweet, and I love our group. Not to mention WE get to hire 18 people to work under us :D Hahaha, I’m going to love this job.

I just finish unpacking and putting some final touches on the room to make it feel a little more home-y.

I’m about to explore the ship some more with a few friends before the next few days (we’re going to be crazy busy). Tonight we have dinner, then attend yet another meeting, work the parents’ reception and then head out to the airport, then get to rest a little, and repeat tomorrow…when we check in about 500+ people (craziness).

Alright kids, I’m going to head out. Love and miss you all back in the states <3

I’ll do my best to update my blog, but internet is only free for X amount of minutes.

Adios!