thursday 8/26 - Halifax

Most of the girls in the hostel room (6 of us total) were work study – which means we board a day early – woke up and started getting everything together around 9. People just started piling up in the lobby to check out and book a cab to the ship. Even though it was walking distance to the hostel it was sooo hard to carry your luggage around.

                Getting to the security check-in made me realize – THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING! It finally hit me. I can’t believe I’m sitting here now and typing this out. There are about 70 work study students and 60 Life Long Learners who boarded the 26^th. So it was a very easy & quick process.

                That day we had orientation and a quick meet up with our bosses to see where I jobs where and what to expect. I’m going to be working at the IT Helpdesk and my boss seems really chill and nice so it should be a good time! Our first job is to help all the other students board on embarkation day (about 600 more of us!!)

                For the remainder of the day in Halifax a group of us did some food shopping and such. And met up with Shelley who I love already. That night after dinner we headed out to meet up with Shelley and went to a brewery called Alexander Keiths for a few drinks and ran into some funny people. There was a bachelor party going on (the groom was trying to get ever girl in the bar to kiss him) and a few other SASers hanging around. After a brewery we headed to an irish pub called the Still Crow. We ran into a group of older people and they recommended it to us. It was also a lot of fun but very crowded. The group of us ended up finding a room downstairs and hung out there and chatted nonstop until we headed back to the ship! J

On the way back Chris, Shelley & I took our time walking and ended up going to visit another girl for a quick drink who just got in to Halifax. Around 12 was when we made the short walk to the ship and I passed out. Now im up (set my alarm clock to the wrong time. And its 540 haha im already showered and ready to go. Lamee but it’ll be a good day I’m meeting a bunch of people for breakfast and then we are heading to help people board!! :D yayyy we sail out today too!