Heyyy!! Just wanted to update before South Africa!! I can’t sleep because I slept all day today. I am a little bit sick so I slept ALLLL day. Now it is like 3:48am and I am wide awake!! Partly because I slept all day and partly because I am soo excited for South Africa!! So just wanted to say how much fun I am having J I have great friends and we definitely have a good time. Buuuttt I can’t wait to get off this darn ship!! It has been 8days. It gets a little old after awhile. Only so many places you can go, ya know!? When we get bored we just watch lots of Grey’s Anatomy. We= me, Whitney (my roomie), Lauren and Savanna. Lauren and Savanna are from Texas and go to school in Arkansas, so they have some strong southern accents!! But those are my bestest friends on the ship that I hang out with everydayJ
Anyways, Desmond has taught our Global Studies class for the last two days. Very inspirational! That guy is awesome!! We have been learning all about South Africa and the Apartheid. I never learned about it before. Never. And it was so recent!! The Apartheid just ended in 1994. I never learned about Desmond either, so I am assuming my friends don’t know anything about him either!! But it is so amazing to be here with him. A Nobel Peace Prize winner on our ship!! Like I said, the ship is only so big, so I see him all the time!! He just hangs out with us, and is a big goofball! He is like everyone’s grandpa!! He is soo freakin hilarious!! His wife is getting on the ship in South Africa…she was supposed to be on the whole time but recently had knee surgery.
Tonight, at our pre-port meeting, he did a little song and dance. Our doctor on the ship always makes up a song for us to tell us how to be safe. The song is always funny and includes stuff like take pepto and lets us know whether or not we can drink the water. Just a cute little thing they make up. But anyways, today they got good old Desmond to sing the first verse. He was dancing and singing and giggling. Sooooo funny. If only you could see this Archbishop…like 78yrs old?....dancing and singing this funny little song. I wish I had it on video!! And his laugh is hysterical. He does this high-pitched little giggle that makes us all chuckle every time we hear it!
After learning about the Apartheid in South Africa, and Desmond’s involvement in the peace efforts, I feel so honored to have him on our ship!! He speaks very highly of our generation. He is always buttering us up!! And he always says “I want to clap you” meaning he wants to clap for us. And he will clap to us. It is so cute.
Now I am going to try and get a few hours of shut eye!! I am going to get up in like 4.5hrs to see the sunrise as we pull into Cape Town!!

P.S. Did you know Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu lived on the same street just diagonal from each other?? Amazing!!