Day One Saturday, March 10, 2018
We embarked the ship early, arriving in Long Beach much earlier than expected. Randy and Kat are cool people; they rode with us over here. It is a rainy, foggy, chilly day. Somebody got hurt- fell on their back or something. We had to wait to embark for an ambulance to take her. We watched them leave and saw blood on her back as the pulled her out of the wheelchair. Then we sat and watched as the ship left the dock... the giant waves, the boats following it. The black, diesel smokestack.
This place is cool.
Already, we have seen so much food wasted. Mountains, and mountains of food. I absolutely hate that. I wish we could teach people not to waste.
We got free lunch and ice cream. By free I mean it is included.
It's cozy. Like a hotel, rather homey. Weston found his cute and cozy little perch in the window seat- it's perfect. He isn't 100% convinced he likes this and all the excess involved with the cruise, but I know he will enjoy it all. We are going to have fun and it's just so fascinating the things we can see and learn.
Dinner was like a dine-and-dash. Three-course meal! Salmon tonight. Yummy. We went to a Clue show as well and it is a mystery throughout the whole cruise as we will collect clues. Clever idea.
It is very choppy tonight, windy ridiculousness and wild waves. Not nausea but just a feeling of dizziness in the head, throwing off the vestibular system. To bed early and we're excited for breakfast.
Day Two Sunday, March 11, 2018
There was a confusion this morning on time... Today is daylight savings time and so most of our phones changed, as well as the app. But when we got to breakfast they said it was only 6:30, not 7:30! So I guess we lost some sleep. I don't even know. The ship stays on the time that we were at when we left no matter what and that's what we go by, but I guess the app didn't keep up.
We had some great PD today. It's always very hard to sit still for so long, and lot's the teachers complained a lot. Mesh of personal ~ professional life = uncomfortable for Heather. I'm OK sharing mine, but it's odd to see others in an unprofessional yet professional scene. We went over the goals of the grant and all the logistics, and I wrote it all down in my "interactive notebook". Karen did what she calls Sciencetelling- we got to choose little Lego buddies and name them, and they will be like our Flat Stanley's for the trip but it was also as a strategy idea for use with kiddos. Mine is named Lydia Claudia Cordilia Renae The Adventurer.
We got to sample some lesson plans as well. The highlight for me, I enjoyed a lot having the guest speaker/scientist/conservation specialist share her story with us! It was way super cool. I have notes written down so I might have to take a picture of them to save typing time. Brooke Bessesen is her name, also a local children's author in Arizona. Really inspiring for me, looking at geography and science as future career possibilities within teaching.
We could feel the boat rocking, back and forth, back and forth, especially in the conference room with no windows. It was warm today, sunny. We got time to hot tub as the sun set tonight, shower, have a long fancy dinner (prime rib) and enjoy the evening. Weston hung out working on some school stuff and reading for the day. Excited for Cabo San Lucas tomorrow!
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