We got to the Bahamas yesterday and it is amazing here! It is so warm and sunny and the hotel is a complete zoo. I can't imagine a hotel that is bigger, the atlantis is literally a compound with anything you can think of on it. For the record my mother wanted to go on the slides before we did. There is this one that drops straight down and she forced me to do it (even though my eyes were closed the entire time and i missed all the fish around me), but we had so much fun anyways. Couldn't get Jocie to do it, but she says that on this trip she is going to push herself to do things she is uncomfortable with. Between yesterday and today I think almost everyone on the ship will be at the hotel so it should be interesting to see everyone. Staying here is kinda bizarre, it feels like freshman year all over again. Last night everyone who was here seemed to be in the lobby or heading out to bars in clumps because no one knew what else to do. Jocie and I have met some great people thus far as well. I think there were 15 kids on our flight alone and the girl sitting behind us on the flight turned out to be so nice and we have been hanging out with her ever since!
The strangest part about being here is that everyone knows what is coming ahead, the big goodbye, and its looming overhead. Meeting kids has definitely made a lot of my worries go away. But anyone who knows me knows that tomorrow is going to be hard for me, as I know it will be hard for Jocie and my mom respectively. I'm in a much better place than when I left for college, I don't fear this experience and I am certainly not afraid like I was for college. I am still a bit weary of leaving my family (I know I am a baby and I have jocie but still!), but I can't believe that I have this amazing world experience ahead of me. I just hope that I will let it change me and open me up. I know I need to relax a bit and allow people in, and I just hope that my experiences this semester will loosen me up and open up my, thus far, limited perspective on the world.
Thats it for now, talk to you from the seas!
