Cruise. Boo Ya!

Greetings, how is everyone's January?

I just have to start with this. There is one really funny thing that only female PE majors get to laugh at daily. ... We get to laugh at the male PE majors. yep, thats right. These guys can be seperated into a few groups.
Group 1: the men who are above 30 and coming back to school. They think they are superior to everyone in the room, and they can't help but comment about their many years of experience in the real world.
Group 2: The shy ones. They always sit in the back and never say a word. You forget that they are there completely after the first day of introductions. Usually they are also the smart ones.
Group 3: The normal guys. They just come, learn, and are usually married. (dang it!)
Group 4: I don't want to be racist but... the asians. They are in every PE class and they always sit together. They barely speak english, and they look like they have never lifted weights in their lives.
Last but not least. (The ones I laugh at everyday, I never get sick of it)
Group 5: The guys who check themselves out as they walk into the room. haha! I have never seen so much self absorbtion in my life. These guys walk in sit down, flex their muscles, and stare for the first five minutes of class. These guys are usually the athletes, but not always. They try to act all cool, but you can tell that their appearance means everything to them. I wonder if they know that other people notice how much they gawk at their own looks. All of these guys have to sit next to each other in the class. They also just stare at their reflection in the huge windows in the hallway. I don't know why, but I think it is just hilarious.

My classes are going well. I am a little overwhelmed, but I think that I will get into a comfortable pattern soon enough. I got a Gold's Gym pass, so now I won't get fat this winter.

The Cruise:
I went on a cruise last week to the western Caribbean. I had a blast, I can now say that I have been to hell and back. Hell wasnt that impressive, but I got a cool postcard.
The plane ride was different. A college student going to Tampa University sat next to me on the airplane. He started talking about marine biology and the genomes in sharks curing cancer... 2 hours later...... I had totally lost all understanding of the conversation. He mumbled his name so I have no idea who he is... oops. Once we got to Florida, he was in the same shuttle as us when my mom said, "Hey Janessa! That boy was sitting next to you! where was he from?!" I tell her he is from Chicago and that he is two feet away from her.... and everyone starts laughing. He scampered off pretty quick... sorry for the embarrassment dude. The bright side is at least my mom didn't ask what his name was... Because I had no idea! That would have been a slightly more awkward situation.
We had a couple formal dining nights on the cruise ship. It was fun to get dressed up and fancy. I didn't spill food on my dress(phew) and I didn't accidently trip the waiters. But! something embarrassing was bound to happen when I was in a fancy dress, heels, and on a rocking ship. We were out on the deck after dinner and we all had ice cream cones (best part of cruises) I was walking across the deck toward our group (which included my family and Mrs. Hansens family) They are all waiting for me to join them. I was trying to concentrate on not falling, but I totally slipped and almost fell on my face. Everyone laughed again. My sister was kind enough to tell me I looked all fancy and graceful, until I slipped, and then I just looked like an idiot. awesome.
My dad decided that we needed to go to this abandoned beach on Cozumel. The reason no one went to it because you had to go off road and onto a bumpy sand road. We had jeeps, so we went even though the renting place told us not to. We later found out that insurance would have been voided if they found out we were on the bad road. woops. We got there, and it isn't a sandy beach. It is a rock beach. But they had huge shells all over. We gathered sweet and free keepsakes. The Hansen family is really prone to motion sickness, so needless to say, they did not enjoy the forty minute bumpy drive. Nothing happened to the jeeps so we didn't get into trouble. We went to the beach three islands in a row. I got an okay tan. We also went on the zip line through the jungle. It was amazing and beautiful. (and no bugs!)
The food was absolutely fantastic. I ate way too much. The last day was really wavy, so all of us got sea sick, but it wasn't that bad. I would like to give a shout out to Dramamine. Motion sickness medicine is the best thing that ever happened. ever
We finished our cruise and exited the ship on Sunday morning. We waited at the airport for four hours, then we were on a plane for six hours. They made three stops between Tampa and Salt Lake. Ugh! The last stretch was delayed an hour because the pilots weren't there on time. So we got home at eleven p.m. and then I had to drive three and a half hours down to cedar city. I got four hours of sleep that night, and then I had five hours of classes the next morning... I am still suffering from slight sleep deprivation. I don't do well without sleep. haha! in fact, I get kind of hysterical. My room mate didn't have to witness Janessa's lack of sleep emotional breakdown. It didn't help that I was still kind of swaying and losing by balance from being on the ship for a week. I don't know if the lack of coordination was from exhaustion or from the ship rocking. I guess I will never know.
I have got to go catch up on homework. ugh