I'm On A Boat

So, I’m sitting here in my bed in the middle of the afternoon. I wish I could be outside running around Pisa or Florence with Brooke and Jessica, but I’m stuck here in bed, hardly able to breathe and having to blow my nose every 5 minutes or so. It’s awful. Yesterday, the doctor said I should rest, so I figured that since I’d been to both Pisa and Florence, I’d rest today so that I could see everything else from here on out. I’ve watched “Up” about three times already and “Bedtime Stories” is coming on for the 2nd time this afternoon. I want to go out into the rest of the ship and maybe meet some new people, but I have a feeling that everyone will run away from me like I have the swine flu, so I’ll just stay in.

It feels a little weird that the guys are gone and that there are all new people on board. Only about 300 people from the first cruise are also on this one, and we hardly met any of them so it feels like we are the only ones who have been on since Venice. I’m beginning to feel like Becky and I did when second semester at the JFRC started. We felt like we knew everything there was to know about the JFRC and we couldn’t imagine it without Joe or Jenny or Katie, let alone with an entire new class. We were almost bitter and laughed when the new kids couldn’t figure out the warm water in the showers and you could hear them screaming when cold water came out. It’s funny how similar the situation is now. We feel like we can’t make any more friends, and as we pass Chris and Jack’s door, we almost knock out of habit. We laugh as the new cruisers can’t figure out how to check back into the ship properly or at how confused they are when Zanina greets them at the dining room entrance. It’s going to be a long second half…