?worry not that no one knows of you;

..seek to be worth knowing.”                       
-confucius

21 march 2009
(well, technically it's now the 22 of march, around 0100a)

long, though productive day. studied, typed, tried to plan things for vietnam. it's crazy that we'll be in a new country so soon! we are actually very close to vietnam, we can see the lights outside of our windows. at one point today there was a man overboard drill, in which the ship turned around completely and stopped, as it would if someone was in the water. i suppose it's another way to delay entering port, so that we can fit in extra class.

i have my china plans all set! i am going to the great wall! YAY! i will be spending a day in hong kong, flying to bejing, sleeping on the great wall, seeing the sights, then taking a sleeper train back to shanghai and then spending the last day in shanghai. i actually have a field trip for nutrition on the last day, though i'm not sure if i'll be able to make it back.

we just spent the past hours watching 'the curious case of benjamin button,' which one of the boys lent us. it was a great film and brad pitt is awesome. so attractive.

i'm now utterly exhausted and plan to be up at 0500, to see the ship sail up the river to ho chi minh city. i'm excited to see the sunrise and then possibly take a nap before getting off the ship. a lot of kids are sleeping on the deck tonight, its like a giant slumber party. my feeling is that, because its already so late, that i need as much good sleep as possible to function in vietnam! i am sure i will sleep out eventually, i've still got some time left to do so.

i am nearly done with my thailand blog -- it's getting so tough to keep up! i can assure you, though, that i will not get off the ship until my thailand journals are done! i simply cannot have them looming!