So if you don't know anything about the history of Burma, now called Myanmar, I highly suggest looking it up. It is very interesting and something that we know very little about in the states. The only thing I had ever even heard regarding Burma, at least that stuck with me, is when J. Pedermen went a little crazy on Seinfeld and went to Burma to live in a cave. Pretty sad that that is all I knew about a country but I def. know more now.
Of all the places we are going this is probably the place with the most tension happening as we speak, though Turkey has been making more news. I think Joy has written more about the history so I won't repeat but it is really going to be interesting, I'm not sure if we will even feel it while we are there but the country is very unstable.
A Crown RA was kind enough to contact me this week and tell me his parents just moved to Yangon, which is where we will be porting. We are hoping to get together for dinner tomorrow night. They are teaching at an international school and I think just arrived two months ago.
My favorite thing at sea so far is when I step outside or look out a window and I am expecting to see water upon more water but instead I see an island. It is very exciting, I think because I have fantasies about being shipwrecked and it is handy to have an island near by to live on.
Students have their second global studies test today, I'm going to take it again, though I don’t think I will do as well on this one as I did on the last.
We didn't have any pirates thru the straights of Malaka but we were going so fast I don't think we were much of a target. You could have waterskied behind the ship, we were going 27 knots and we usually go 17. Good times.
Ok... chat with you later.
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