The whole world is moving, but I'm standing still.

I hate waking up at 7 AM on days where we lose an hour of sleep. I mean, I absolutely despise it with every fiber of my being, but I handle it with dignity and class. Anywho.

Grabbed breakfast with Nick and Will again, as I’m hoping happens most A days. It’s nice sitting outside eating with them, because I don’t really see them around otherwise and they’re both really, really cool. Afterwards I went inside and sat with Mallory until it was time for us to work. I went in an Joe was in there, and he spent the whole hour inside there with my trying on different sweatshirts and learning how to fold and having a really difficult time picking a sweatshirt. He went with a gray crew neck and we headed to Global Studies.

Global Studies... oh boy. It’s a really cool concept for a class, and I’m sure some days are going to be really, really interesting. Today was not one of those days. I honestly don’t even know what happened, but I know I feel asleep a little bit. After that, I went to my History of Musical theater class which was nice. We started talking a bit about what we’re going to do for the musical, and I’m super jazzed to start writing it because I’ve never written a musical let alone a play, so it should be a really nice challenge for me.

After class I basically ran to my room so I could take nap because I was just straight up exhausted. I took a solid half hour nap and woke up to go back to work, which was pretty easy and uneventful. It’s nice working there because I get to talk to a lot of people I don’t know if I’d necessarily talk to otherwise.

Then I had my global music class, which was mostly boring and uninteresting. I have a hard time in classes where the teacher just talks at me and I have no involvement, which is kind of how it’s going so far. I’m hoping that it gets better.

Then I had world theater and performance, which was amazing. Professor Williams is truly, truly amazing. Today we learned about the Sharman. The Sharman is basically everything wrapped into one. In certain parts of the world, people have a calling to become Sharman. He is everywhere. He is a comedian, magician, a mans search for meaning, a spirit medium, a master of all forms. (I’m sure a few AAU kids think of Jim Jarrett immediately) I don’t fully understand the concept yet, but it’s definitely something I’m looking forward to learned more about.

We went outside into the union, and Williams asked if any of us was sea sick or had a headache. I said I had a headache. Had had me and one other person lay on our backs on the floor, and everyone say around us. Everyone let out this guttural hum around us and rubbed their hands together and clapped, and when their hands were warm, they touched us on our legs, face, feet, whatever was closest to them. Our teacher started saying things like “I command the spirit of the headache to leave”, which was followed by more humming. The humming was a consistent thing. I know this probably sounds really crazy and stupid to anyone who wasn’t there, but it felt crazy. I immediately felt better and I felt this incredible connection to all of these people who I met  few days ago, some of whom I’ve never even met. I felt safe and I felt this sense of community, like they genuinely wanted to heal me. It was very cathartic, and I hope there’s more of that to come when we wind up in the communities where this type of healing is still used, as opposed to modern medicine.

I then hung out with Nate and Sam really quickly. Nate left and Nate, Joe, Kevin and I went up to the front of the ship where we met Stephanie and someone else who’s name I forget, but they were both really cool. We decided to have a cuddle party on the deck before we get into Morocco. Pretty legit. They left and Joe, Kevin, Sam and I went down to dinner.

Dinner was awesome. I sat right near a window and Ryan came to join us. It was beautiful, sitting right next to the ocean seeing all of the colors of the water and watching the sky change colors as well. We had some really good discussions, and it was nice because I don’t hang out with Joe, Kevin, or Ryan as much as I’d like to.

After they left, I went and sat with Ali, Sarah, Liz, and Nick. We hung out for a bit, but I left around 7:30 because I thought I was meant to meet up with Kevin and Joe to talk about movies to make. Turns out they’re both, and I’ve got a meeting in half an hour so I’m just writing up this blog and getting ready to peace outttt.

“Romance is the sweetening of the soul with fragrance offered by the stricken heart” - The Lion and the Jewel