In Canada!

Hi everyone! I made it to my connection in NY and now I'm just waiting to get on the plane to Halifax. It's been smooth sailing so far, let's hope that continues once I'm actually setting sail on the ship! haha, yeah you like that pun.
I'm about to meet, face to face, my first fellow travelers! Some girls who are also SaS students are connecting here, too. I can't wait to meet them! and everyone else, of course!
Oh ps. I got super lucky on baggage. I think the weight limit is about 50 lbs or you have to pay for an oversized bag. well GUESS WHAT. my luggage for two months of travel was 48 LBS! I guess that means I didn't overpack, haha. Which is good, because baggage fees are terrible anyway.
So now I've got my computer out and I'm listening to my iTunes and waiting to board. I can't get the "free wi-fi" to work though, so this post will actually happen a bit later. and will probably contain some more information. woo!

Good morning! So I dunno if you guys know this, but Halifax is not, in fact, part of the eastern time zone. I got confused for a minute at first because of the Atlantic time zone. I kind of forgot that existed for a bit. :P

So.. where did I leave off yesterday? I met up with people from SaS at the NY connection! sort of by accident, we had to get our tickets stamped because we were on a one-way flight or something and they thought we were running away to Canada. or something. So anyway, all of a sudden instead of just the two girls I was meeting, there were like nine of us! So we went through to the plane and arrived in Halifax pretty uneventfully. We had to fill out these forms for Canada to go through customs, basically saying we weren't bringing certain things into the country and blah blah blah.

Got my first Passport stamp! it was pretty cool. the officer was like "reason for entry?" to which I replied "I'm a student with Semester at Sea." and I felt AWESOME.

So a bunch of us sat around the airport getting to know each other and waiting on a couple other people to show up. Then we got on The Airporter, the bus thing that took us downtown to the hotel. btw, Halifax airport is way the heck away from the actual city! but the city is ballin'-tastic. it's like right by the water and there are a bunch of hills to walk up and down, and some cool buildings!

So we got to the hotel and I stashed my stuff in someone's room and we went to get bubble tea. which is okay. the tapioka balls or whatever are not very appealing. Then we went to Argyle bar & grill and met up with some 20 other SaS students to have some supper, which was great because by that time I was STARVING.

After that we went browsing around town and ended up at Cheers, this bar and dance club of sorts. When we got there it was like completely empty! So we all had a drink and hit the dance floor, which was SO COOL, it had like disco balls and light shows and a fog machine and weird techno music lol. so all the SaS students were hanging out and jammin' and being ridiculous, and then at like midnight the Canadians starting pouring in, apparently their partying starts late! But fellow SaSer Chris and I left at like 1, and apparently after we left it just kept picking up! But I was exhausted, so I probably couldn't have stayed out any later, even though those Canadians I met were pretty cool people. :)

I've met a lot of people so far! I'm working on remembering all of their names... There are so many of us, it's ridiculous. I'm having a great time though getting to know everyone. I've met people from all over the country! No one else from Alabama, but I met a girl from Texas and a guy from Tennessee, so there are a couple other southern people, haha.

So now I think we're about to go to this little cafe across the street and get some breakfast. Well, brunch by now. I'll probably meet some more people, haha.

Getting on the ship tomorrow morning!!