Oi! Feliz Carnaval! I LOVE BRAZIL…and apparently…BRAZIL LOVES ME! (read my little blurb on Capoeira in the market for more details…) I have to start out by saying…BRAZIL IS HOT! This shouldn’t be a shocker to you at all. My roommate and I got up at 6 to watch as the ship pulled into port this morning. It was already hot and humid outside as the sun rose over the Bahian skyline. I have never been so excited to see a city s...

I have some bad news. I got sunburnt today. Apparently I’m not as invincible as I thought. After my Global Studies exam I went up to the pool deck in hopes of taking a little nap-a-roo out in the sunshine. Well, I didn’t end up falling asleep because it was ridiculously hot! I know, it seems like I tell you how hot it is basically in about every post, but let me tell you…IT WAS HOT! We were also moving super slow because we were ahead of schedu...

Ship life is great, as always! My only complaint is the food. I’ve told many of you that I’m completely sick of the food! It’s terrible because I’m really not a picky eater, but UGH…everything has this like bad after taste or something. Just smelling the food in the dining hall makes me start to gag. They serve us real food all the time…pasta, meat, vegetables…but it’s just ehhhhhhh. I am craving stuffed shells, ...

After exploring the fort, we wandered in Old San Juan, popular for it’s blue cobblestone streets. All of the buildings in Old San Juan are so cute! It looked like how I would think Italy would look. We grabbed some authentic Puerto Rican food at Café Puerto Rico and then headed back to the ship. Next, we spent a few hours on the beach about ¾ of a mile or so from the ship. The water was SO warm and refreshing! The sun was pretty darn intense s...

HEY…I got your emails! It’s going to be hard for me to reply directly to them because the internet is SOOOOO SLOOW. I don’t miss land quite yet. In about a little over 24 hours I will be in my first port, Puerto Rico! Tomorrow night we are learning how to do the salsa and meringue on the ship (2 dance styles). My room is pretty small! I hung up the picture you drew for me and some other ones that you’re in. The food is just okay…br...