We are sitting...in the ocean...outside of Bulgaria..UGH!

So, some fun stuff has happened the past two days at sea that I thought I would write about. Last night we passed through the Bosphorus Strait Strait which was really cool. It is the strait that divides Istanbul in half between the two continents it occupies which are Europe and Asia. The strait was really cool though. A lot of the buildings on the shoreline were lit up, and most of the bridges were lit up too. There were also some fireworks that we saw! It was pretty exciting.

Also, there is a couple on board named Karen and Jeff who are life long learners. This means that they aren't professors, and they aren't students. They are older people that love to learn I guess and pay to come along on the ship. Jeff is retired now, but he used to work for a big advertising agency, and Karen designs cruises and vacation packages for some company. Pretty cool huh? They have a condo on some other cruise ship that sails around the world for 10 months out of each year, so they are obviously pretty successful. They travel a ton, don't have kids, and only live in their home in California for two months out of the year. Well, I think Jeff has a son, but I think he was from another marriage. Anyways, kind of a crazy lifestyle, huh? They are really nice though and a great resource for travel information since they have been just about everywhere. Anyways, part of their job as lifelong learners is to give presentations on their careers and what they have done. My friend Katie is an advertising major, so she went to Jeff's presentation last night. And guess what she found out? He came up with the taco bell slogan "Think outside the bun". HOW COOL IS THAT!? haha. He said they were in a meeting with taco bell, and taco bell had shot down all of the plans they had originally come up with, and he just threw that idea out there. He came up with it 3 months before he retired, and they are still using it today. So, that's pretty cool. They are really nice people though, and they have some pretty crazy stories. I can't really imagine living that life though. They spend Easter in Antarctica, and Christmas somewhere in South America. Crazy.

On a side note, my classes are going pretty well. Spanish is still really hard, but I am pushing through it. My negotiation class is still really interesting. We did an exercise today which pretty much made the whole class hate each other, but it was interesting to see that when people are labeled or put in a certain group, they tend to take on that role. The exercise is kind of complicated, but it ended with my group, who were the lowly workers, rioting and ransacking all the money and food from the other two groups. Pretty funny.

We also ordered a cake for Candice's 23rd birthday which is the day in between Bulgaria and Turkey. Yah! I am actually pretty annoyed with the ship right now though because we got to Bulgaria a day early, and we are now sitting just outside the port because we can't dock until 7 A.M. tomorrow. How annoying is that? UGH. Also, we are planning on going bungee jumping tomorrow in Bulgaria, so everyone say a prayer for me!