Please excuse the shameful delay in reporting back any and all Interesting Things since South Africa (when was that). First let me take care of the shipboard housekeeping.
This will hopefully be the most amusing geography lesson y'all have heard in a while. The night before our arrival in Mauritius (more on that later) a good friend pointed at my feet and informed me that "home is that way." This of course prompted a wave of jokes back home that we were stepping on your toes or had a lovely view up your shorts. Our arrival in Chennai, India also marked the only day on which our dawn was California's dusk, though either way you happen to see it we were watching the same giant ball of burning gas mosey up or down from opposite sides of a rather large rotating rock. Departure from India marked our getting closer and closer to home instead of farther and farther away. Somewhere in this whole business we've managed to lose twelve total hours of sleep and gain half a day, generally at the rate of one hour clock advances every other day at sea. Much to our dismay the crossing of the International Date line was scheduled away from Thanksgiving, probably due to an unwillingness to serve two feasts in a row would probably wipe out the national Japanese turkey supply (there's an Economics of Globalization paper topic for you).
In other news, Happy Halloween to all you pumpkin mutilators back home! We're having our own festivities on board after classes and dinner (Saturdays have long ceased to be anything meaningful), and I promise to provide prompt updates on that if y'all promise to do the same for me. Try not to get too crazy without this cat, but if you must, please provide photographic or otherwise documented evidence.
No comments:
Post a Comment