Casablanca and the Titanic

4/5

Still in Morocco, but sleeping on the boat. We got to sleep in! It felt so so good! But we still had an afternoon left so we caught a taxi to the mosque in Casablanca, it’s the 2nd largest in the world! And it was absolutely stunning! Amazing architecture and so detailed. We couldn’t go inside until after 2 and it was only 12:30 and raining and cold and extremely strong wind so we didn’t want to wait that long- too bad. So after taking a ton of pictures, we just headed back to the ship, ready to sail. The ship was buzzing with stories of everyone’s trips and excitement in seeing friends again. As 2000, our sail time, approached, we all changed into sweats and gathered on the wooded areas of the ship. The ship had to go around the same corner we came in on, stabilizers turned off again, which last time had caused a ton of rocking, plus it was still stormy, so we knew we’d be in for a fun tumble on the wood floor. Well, I was expecting a little sliding one way and a little the other way, but oh no, it was much much more! We were in the Union, which is the giant classroom, and we were in the square of wood in the middle, with the chairs surrounding us- we’d never seen the chairs in here move, even though it was probably the rockiest place on the ship. The floor was covered with people, not much space to move. The first wave came and we were okay but by the 3rd, I had fallen over and by the 4th I was flying across the square, no joke. I was on the outside of the circle and had flown into the chairs and had people piling on top of me. And then we flew to the other side. Soon the chairs were moving and hitting people! It was seriously getting dangerous. I never expected us to fly around that much. At one point I was holding onto a pole, watching as people flew past and down past me (yes, it seemed like it was below me) and I felt like I was on Titanic. It was insane! Yet, so so fun! One guy broke his wrist, another messed up his foot when he ran into the piano haha. We got some video footage of it and I can’t wait to post it, it’s hilarious. But after the fun, we just started to feel a little seasick so we headed back to our room to lie down.

Ummm our room was in complete disarray. Our beds had separated from the wall and mine was all the way on the other side, near the door. Part of the bedside table had reached the middle of the room and toppled over, everything inside of it spilling out. The two chairs and the table were also near the door, on top of just about everything we owned. When the captain had said secure your belongings, we thought putting it on the floor was fine, but instead putting it on the floor meant that the furniture was now on top of it. Perez’s computer was underneath the table, but luckily it was fine. It was chaos. But we had been wanting to put our beds together so this just started the process for us! So now here we are, with a queen bed haha.

But unfortunately, we start class again tomorrow. Its been so long I don’t even remember what we were doing. I guess it’s time to read. And now 9 days on the ship again. Let’s hope we don’t’ get seasick!