Mauritius was amazing. It started out by arriving there at 8
AM. When we got there we only had 8-10
hours--it was just Carly, Amanda, Sara, and me. It started out with going to blue bay. We decided it was time to get away from
semester at sea and just separate ourselves from society. We got off the ship
and made our way into McDonalds: as SAS students you are pretty much broke to
begin with especially if you had to pay some tuition, unlike some students who
got to do this for free! Fortunately for me, I was accepted to the program and
I had made up my mind that I was going to go around the world with just a bunch
of random people! What a great decision, honestly. It was worth every penny. I
met a lot of amazing people and I truly believe that I will be friends with
them longer than some of my best friends back home. Sorry to Grant, Rich and, Devin,
and Matt. I love you guys
We left in a cab where we met and amazing Indian driver that pretty
much understood everything I was talking about. I know my Hindi was a little
rusty but we had a great time, we watched a lot of Hindi movies on the way to
the beach and honestly I couldn’t have wished for better friends! I really wish
we had more time in Mauritius but the 8-10 hours we had there were legit. We
got to blue bay and walked onto the beach and came to a conclusion that we
needed to rent a boat.
It only
made sense that we rent a boat that had a glass bottom, we got some local
Mauritian brews and decided to set sail into the middle of the Indian Ocean.
Talk about an amazing boat ride haha, we had a lot of local beer and
some Mauritian rum. I was kind of the hot mess in the group, I hate to admit
it but after India, my time on the ship was pretty rough and honestly I didn’t
care one bit. We went out and saw a lot of coral, some brain coral, and some
poisonous coral. The brain coral was one of the three in the world and it
was the only one in the Indian Ocean. Shortly after we decided that it was time
to go back to shore to get back before we missed the ship. In the amount of time that
we were there I had thee 40's and almost over half a pint of rum. On the way back
to the ship I made it all the way back to port Mauritius and ended up puking in
front of McDonald’s and shortly after, I puked inside of McDonald’s. It was a
good thing that I had amazing friends to look after me while I was being obnoxious! I ended up having my shirt changed inside the men’s bath room
by Amanda. She’s the kind of girl that really doesn’t like to make things
awkward, she clearly made things awkward, but thankfully she was there for me. I
woke up sober enough to know that I was standing in line to get back on the
ship but people were slapping me, feeding me food and making me drink water. 
We made it back on the ship without getting dock time and then slowly made our way onto the pool deck to
eat some BBQ. I made it onto the 7th deck and ended up passing
out after eating one bite of my burger, I don’t know how I made it back to my
room after passing out but thankfully Matt (my roommate) was there for me so I
wouldn’t get drunk tanked. I woke up the next morning after 12 hours of
napping. Great time in Mauritius!!
Next post is South Africa
Until Next time,
-Raj Patel
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