Hey daddio- just checking up on you to see how you're doing. I worry about you :/

We will be in South Africa tomorrow morning :] I'm pretty excited- and really looking forward to that steak, and maybe a good glass of red wine to go with it.

 

I went to a club meeting for one of my 37865 clubs that I am in. But this one is Alcohol-Free Voyagers- me and the 7 students in it do not really drink at all, and will maybe have 1/2 glass to 1 glass of wine or a wine cooler, and oddly enough the 2 people running it do drink- but they're not drinking for this voyage, which is kind of cool.

 

There is also an LLC (life long coordinator- i.e. "supervisors of work studies") named McGarret- and he's probably mid to late 30's and he's never even tasted alcohol. He didn't get too much into detail, but I can only imagine that someone close to him abused alcohol, or maybe he just never really cared to try it, either way it's really awesome to have the support of someone like him on the ship, and he said that he is so proud of us and our group.

 

There are actually a decent amount of kids who don't drink/ don't get drunk on the ship- a lot of them just aren't in our group.

Either way it's just really nice- we try to go out together once in each port- this way we can still enjoy the nightlife without getting trashed or babysitting people from the ship, it's just us kids having fun.

And we're from all over the map- NY, Colorado, California, Hawaii, and Minnesota. I think we covered a broad area Hahaha.

 

I'm just hanging around today- no classes. I'm throwing another party for our interport students Phi and Bubelani ('fee and boo-lay-la-knee) it took me forever to get Bubelani's name correct :p

So it should be fun- I delegated some tasks to my committee so I wasn't stuck doing everything, but you know me, I like things done may way, and to my standards- so I gave them the "not-so-important" tasks so if they messed up, I would easily be able to clean up after them.

 

Oh well, hahaha.

 

I miss you and love you!

 

<3

 

Samantha Zerio

Executive Student Ambassador of Semester at Sea

Goodwill Operator