Crossing the Atlanic to Spain!!!

Spain 05 Sep-08 Sep

Life on the ship has been interesting, meeting students from all over the country and making friends with everyone was easier then I have thought; everyone just come at lunch or dinner and introduced them self to you. This to me has been the best part of this voyage so far, the fact that we have over 700 people on one ship and are excited in meeting new people as I’m. The hardest thing about having so many people to get to know is just remembering everyone’s name. Also sometime one forgets that we are on a ship until things get rocky on the ship and everyone lost their balance.

Still can’t believe that I just crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a ship and it only took less than two weeks to get on the other side while it took Christopher Columbus 3 months going on the other side of the world. I find funny how the world changes so quickly. Besides crossing the Atlantic Ocean I still can’t get over the fact that I was just in Spain 4 for days (3 nights)
Spain

Throughout my life I have always want to visit Spain, but after being there for 3 days, I realized that the reason that I wanted to visit Spain wasn’t the only great thing about Spain. Before this trip or our stop in Spain, my only reason of wanting to visit has always been about futbol (Soccer). I did not know much or thought much about the people who live here and how they live there life, and even thought from history and my Geography class I learned about Spain I guess I had forgotten the interesting facts about the people and their culture.

After we cross the Atlantic Ocean we arrived in 0600 o’clock in Cadiz. Before this journey I have never heard of Cadiz or knew anything about it. I have only known or thought I knew about Barcelona and Madrid, but Cadiz turned out not only to be a beautiful port but it is a little city with a lot of history. Its history is more than 2000 years. Walking through the street you can see the changes the city has gone through in the past 1000 years or so from the control of the Moor and the Arab to the Spanish city that it is today. Its beautiful beaches and churches are the pride of the city. The most interning thing to me about Cadiz is the way it’s structured; on one side of the town the old buildings that were build from the time this city was established but they still stand strong, and the other side is modernized city beautiful as if it was just build yesterday for tourism. It was interesting seeing the small shops and walking around in siesta time.
Barcelona!!!!

After spending a night in Cadiz we got up early for a flight to Barcelona. Being in Barcelona was the best time I had in Spain; I still cannot believe that I was just there!!!! As a soccer player and a flower I just visited one of the biggest soccer stadiums in the world, but overall it was the experience that I had in Barcelona that makes left the biggest imprecation in our stop in Spain. I don’t think that I will forget the taste of wine, the beautiful sound of guitar and the amazing sights, this were the things that I did not anticipate or had any apparition for before this trip to Spain, but after experiencing most of this myself I don’t thing that I will forget that amazing sound of the foot taping as the dancers dance the flamingo dance.

I think after being in Spain, Spanish music will be on the top of my playlist, and will drink wine more after learning and drinking so much of it over here, I think I have also have learned to appreciate art more than before after seeing some of the most beautiful paintings and seeing some of the best architectures buildings (Cathedrals) in the world.

Today we are on our way to Morocco which should be interesting, not only because we are crossing the between the Mediterranean Sean and the Atlantic ocean, but because of the way the culture will be, it is spouse to represent the influence of Europe or western world and also the African and Arab way of living, so I’m interesting to make our first stop in Africa, and how the experience will compare to my experience in Spain and also to what to come from Ghana and S. Africa.