the day before yesterday, I was in denial about possibly getting a cold. by yesterday I definitely had one. I took some DayQuil & slept some. I left Sherri in the library all afternoon and crashed. Robin gave me some Chinese Healing Oil. She’s very into all the homeopathic stuff. I have no idea, it tasted really awful is all I can say. I’m willing to try pretty much anything because I don’t want to be sick for Vietnam.
Last night was the ship’s Passover seder. There were about 200 people. There was matzo-ball soup which made us happy. But also pasta & cake … hmmm … the seder was nice, but a bit too conservative for my liking. This morning was the sunrise Easter service with the Archbishop. Fortunately we got to “retard” our clocks last night which gave us an extra hour of sleep. I got up for the service and then went back to sleep. For both events, we were given strict instructions to get dressed up. The Easter service was in the Union, which holds 300-some, and it was packed. I got there at 6:15 and was in the very back row. The service was lovely, I find the Archbishop totally mesmerizing. They did Communion and then we all processed out to deck and threw flowers overboard into the water. It was very pretty. I went back to sleep after, missing Global Studies, and I’m feeling a bit better now. I’ve been in the library all the rest of the day.
One of our professors was badly stung by a jellyfish in Malaysia. She’s on all kinds of serious pain killers and a number of faculty/staff/life-long-learners are taking turns being with her. The medical team wants her to stay awake all day so that she’ll sleep ok at night. I was supposed to do a shift this afternoon just hanging with her & keeping her awake, but I don’t want to share my cold. Seems like that’s all she needs. She came down to lunch today and is looking much better, so we’re hoping that the worst has passed.
Tomorrow is Vietnam. We should arrive in port around 10 am, but will start up the river towards Ho Chi Min City around 6:45. It’s supposed to be beautiful. I have a day free in Ho Chi Min City on either end of our stay with a 3-day trip to Phan Thiet (out in the countryside) in between. I’ll try to get a blog post out tomorrow night before I leave town.
Happy Passover & Easter to y’all out there …
