Today’s the day! Work study students board the MV Explorer to get settle and get ready to work check-ins the next day for all 600 students. Chelle and I finally slept in (until 9!) and got decent amount of sleep. We checked out and we were going to go to the Towne hotel to keep our baggage there until 1:30pm (about when we can board). We got to the hotel and they said we couldn’t bring it in because there were soo many bags already there. Apparently everyone else had the same idea as us. Chelle, Rafael, Eric, and I are standing outside the Towne hotel with 2 or 3 bags each with backpacks. We wanted to keep it at the Towne so that we can walk around at this straw market downtown in Nassau. We decided that some of us will go and walk around the straw market, while some of us stayed with the bags on the sidewalk of the Towne. Chelle, Eric, and I walked down to the straw market and this is a place where it’s probably the international market place in Kona. Lots of tourist items! Just walking right inside, people start talking to you and keep saying, “What do you wanna see honey? I got good price today. I’ll give you good price.” Every time you walk by someone’s little station, there are people talking to you and if you look at one thing in their station, they ask you if you want to see it. It was pretty overwhelming that everyone just kept on asking you and asking you. Also, Chelle was looking to buy a cultural item and this one lady was saying she’ll give her a good price, so we noticed you definitely have the haggle. She went from about $30 to $18. So not bad and its hard to tell what is the right price. You just have to ry and get it as low as you can. Sometimes the sellers will be a little irritated and mad because you say such a low price, but you have to learn to be a little numb to it, because you really don’t know if you’re getting a good price for the item. I didn’t buy anything because I didn’t see many things I liked except for wooden figurines. A lot of the things were rasta colored and I can get those things in Hawaii if I wanted to. I think it was just too touristy for me, but I’ve finally decided what to collect from each country! I’m going to get postcards from each country because it has the picture of what the country is famous for. Such as, the Bahamas is Atlantis. I’m also gonna collect bracelets from every country! I didn’t get one for the Bahamas though because there were so many rasta colored ones and ones that were really familiar to Hawaii.
At about 1:30pm, we lugged our bags from the taxi to the ship and finalllyy boarded the MV Explorer! My cabin number is 3313 and I’m pretty much at the very front of the ship on Deck 3. My room is pretty small and it’s actually for 4 people, but I have no idea how they would fit that any people! My roommate wasn’t there because she wasn’t work study. It is bunk bed style with two beds on the floor and above both beds there are fold down beds. Our bathroom is TINY! Our shower is literally triangle shaped and when I showered you had to move the shower head away and then move it back when you wanted to use it. There is minimal storage space but there are 4 closets to accommodate all 4 people. I picked the bottom right bunk when looking at the room from the front door.
We all ate dinner, and some of us got off the ship and went to the Towne hotel to catch up on blogs and emails. I got back about 10:30pm and went to go and finish unpacking but shortly thereafter, got over it and threw everything in a small drawer under my bed… I’ll get to it later =P
Miho
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