Class Day "B6" at sea

Today is class meeting day "B6."

On the agenda for me is the following:

• Sit in on the Global Studies core course that the entire ship "shuts down for" daily - it is held in the Student Union area of the ship with the lecture being broadcast on the closed-circuit TV system of the ship to the various satellite classrooms on the ship for those students who can't fit in the Union (Time:  0920 - 1040)
• Teach "Cinema and National Identity" (Time:  1415 - 1530)
• Sea Social #2 (Time:  2100 - 2230)

Update:

I learned today that on the India trip I'm going on one of the nurses onboard, Brenda, will be going on the trip too (I think she is actually a nurse practitioner...not exactly sure).  She is probably in her 50s and since we were told in the faculty/staff manual that we would be made roommates with someone else on the faculty/staff, I will probably be her roommate on that trip.  I think Brenda is going on the Kuala Lumpur trip that I signed up for as well.

I also looked at the manifest for the China trip I'm going on (people can sign up for roommates in advance at the Field Office Desk and the list of people on the overnight trips is there).  Apparently the other nurse on board, Emily, will be going on that trip so I will probably have her as a roommate as well.  Emily is closer to my age (late 20s, early 30s) and I know she worked as an E.R. nurse for a while.

So I feel good knowing that I will have two nurses with me on these trips if anything happens (to me or anyone else)!  Better yet, they will probably be my roommates!

I also found out that there will be 38 students on the 3-day safari that I am the trip leader for.

We will advance our clocks by one hour tonight which will make us 6 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time in the U.S.