Dominica - Day 2! It's a day late I know....

It was Day 2 in Dominica yesterday and it wasn't as amazing as the first
day, but it was great to see more of Dominica! In the morning, a lot of
people had field trips so I ended up just catching up on my sleep until
my field trip that afternoon. I had a field trip to Emerald Pool and
then river tubing down Layou River. Emerald Pool was AMAZING. I actually
posted a picture of it on Facebook when I first found out that we were
going to Dominica instead of Cuba. After Emerald pool we took a drive to
Layou River where we would go tubing. We tubed down the river and it was
alright, nothing special, and everyone kept on getting stuck on the
rocks and going straight to the walls or branches. For the money, it
wasn't completely worth it, but Emerald Pool did make it a lot better.
We got back to the ship at 5:30 and we had to be back on by 6. Me and a
couple other girls ran to the market right next to the port and bought a
few more things and then ran to the ship and we definitely made it on
time! If you don't make it on time you get "dock time" which is if you
are 15 minutes late, you get 2 hours of dock time. So for the next port,
when everybody can get off the ship you have to wait 2 hours after the
ship clears customs to leave the ship. So if you're late like 17 minutes
you have hours of dock time which is a lot especially if we're in the
country for only a day! So we made it and there was no line so we
weren't worried.

After dinner, I felt like working out so I finally worked out on the
ship for the first time! There was no one there because everyone just
got back on. Ashley went with me and while we were on the elliptical,
the ship starting leaving port, it was really weird, but it was cool to
see Dominican city lights getting farther and farther away. Ashley and I
did ab work on the deck and the stars were above us which was super cool
and we were feeling so good we even did free weights! =] Yeah you all
would be proud of me =P

Oh yeah! I found out two stupid students got kicked off ALREADY. One was
caught smoking in their cabin and the other had a random room check
while they were in Dominica and there was weed found. Soooo dumb! But
they got kicked off immediately and when you get kicked off SAS you have
to find your own way home from that port. And there are no international
airports in Dominica. So the students have to fly to Puerto Rico then to
the US from Dominica.

So overall, Dominica was wonderful! =] So green and beautiful!

Miho