St Debbie's Watch and more

Hi everyone~
I missed a day on here but surely did not miss a day here-a bit crazy and needed to go to bed at a normal hour...but today, we get some more time with clocks being turned back, so I am in heaven tonight! I did start the day off with a workout once again, and of course on day 6 my pedometer breaks down-my guess would be that is was a 7500 step day!

So, for those who sailed with me in 2000 know what St Debbie's Watch means...and that was an internal code to let each other know where there was a gathering of sorts happening after a long hard day...and last night was the first gathering of women to celebrate...meet Debbie, me, Kate, Abby and Theresa at the gathering...you can imagine the conversation was grand and the laughs were many!

We also had a little upset today in the Global studies course-cannot really get into here but will write more about it in my private emails to all of you later...let's just say that the typical faculty-staff/student/community digression happened today with a professor who talked about Japanese culture in a way that was offensive to many in the community-we are working together to work it out, but lots of upset throughout the day that the Admin team dealt with. Tonight in about 30 minutes, I am running a "fill out all of your VISAS meeting with the Chief Purser, where we will together fill out all necessary paperwork for all of the countries we are about to visit. This typically happened before each port, but we decided to do in all in one meeting-should be quite interesting.

Tomorrow is another day... until then!
love, ro