Things I miss:
- being able to get a meal anytime I want
- late classes
- being able to leave voicemails and text messages
- being able to find/contact people easily (via cell phone)
- TV
- friends/family
- hard alcohol (the ship only serves domestic beer and wine)
- a fast internet connection
- not being sick
- my bed and pillows
- driving my car
Hard to believe I’m actually counting down the days until I get home. It was only a couple of weeks ago that I was counting down the days until SAS and all the countries I’d be visiting…now that I’m here, I just wanna be home. Just gotta tell myself it’s just a bit longer than a quarter at BCC..
I’ll happily take your long emails and requests for phone calls.
Even with my classes, clubs, and other extra-cirricular activities I’ve tried to busy myself with, it still seems like I have so free much time and seems like I don’t know anyone to share it with. The “stoplight dance” is tomorrow (to celebrate Singles Awareness Day) and I don’t really feel like participating. It seems like it takes so much energy to be social on the ship that I find it easier to stay busy being alone….weird, eh? Of course, this may be just because I’m sick.
Alex,
You will feel better once you are better…and please do not dwell on the things you are missing, but on the things you can do that you could never do at home. Leave the home things at home, and look forward to the most marvelous experience of your life.
All of us who have been on SAS miss the same things you are missing, but they are not gone forever, but the absence of them lets you look outward and onward to some great experiences.
Gretchen
Comment by Gretchen — February 13, 2007 @ 6:29 pm