Follow Semester at Sea Spring 2011

We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families - "At Nyarubuye, tiny skulls of children were scattered here and there, and from a nearby schoolyard the voices of their former classmates at recess carrie...

wedding faire this sunday in slo-town - Ladies and Gentlemen! The 17th Annual Central Coast Wedding & Special Events Faire approaches. This Sunday, January 29th, from 12-4pm at the Embassy Suit...

Cape Town, South Africa - Thursday- The incredible tease. I woke up early to see Table Mountain outside my porthole window. Hundreds of seagulls flew overhead. We were here! Onl...

525,600 minutes later - Did you know there are 525,600 minutes in a year? Exactly one year ago today our Semester at Sea adventure commenced. Naturally, I’ve been feeling a little...

#527 Polyface Farm revisited - In the two years since I first visited Polyface Farm, owner Joel Salatin'smessage in support of local food has gone mainstream. Time Magazine In 2011, The ...

A New Day, A New Year, A New Way of Thinking - *2011 *was the* best of times* and was the *worst of times* for the Riley family. Sharing some of my deepest thoughts, I am letting you know, dear reade...

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this is going to be a really random post. i don’t get on here much because it’s not... - this is going to be a really random post. i don’t get on here much because it’s not really my thing, but i need to write this down because it’s importan...

New directions – Cheryl’s volcano blog now active - Hi everyone! Now that our travels are over, I’m starting a Volcano Video blog. Here I’ll write about any lava adventures we may have (yesterday, for examp...

A Day In Singapore - On Wednesday March 16, we arrived in Singapore. It was immediately evident that we were in a truly advanced nation. The unique architecture and stunning st...

-Thank You Video- - Click Link below to view video: Sticker Donations Thank You Video

Reflections on being "from" the U.S. - I’ve never had a sense of nationality before. Now when I pass by an American Flag, I get a sense of comfort. I didn’t realize how easy it was to take our...

Post-voyage reflection: sorry guys, this is unedited... - “I feel like this is the real world and we are going back to sleep” –Jason on re-entry “if you wake up to the voice telling you the date and time, shake yo...

SPECIAL DINNER Thursday, March 24th - We had a very special treat in the form of a special dinner given to us by our dear friend Karen. While on our four-day trip in India Tom and I helped Kare...

Taiwan On - What a successful plan B! A good portion of students were skeptical, thinking Taiwan was a significant downgrade from famed Japan. Just more China right? N...

I Am Home, But - I long to be with the ocean again. To hear the water sing as it crashes along the shore. To feel the sweet rocking of the waves. To see sea gulls dancing a...

Sweet Home USA - After packing all of our clothes, souvenirs and books from the past 3.5 months, we took our suitcases to the fourth deck where the crew piled our luggage o...

Taiwan - “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” ~Martin Buber Taiwan was a source of a lot of mixed emotions for ever...

San Diego, and just about Home Again - Early this morning, the shipboard community gathered on the 7th and 8th deck and looked toward the beautiful city of San Diego. Two small boats drew along ...

Almost Home! - Tomorrow morning, I will be back in California. At moments it seems like forever since I've been home but at other times it seems as though I just left ...

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Some of the People I Encountered During Our Voyage..... - As we come to the end of our incredible journey, I want to add one last entry to our blog showing some of the people we encountered during our voyage as we...

- Day 97 Last night we were thinking of a way to get to the other side of Hilo. We had heard that if you are 21, you are allowed to rent a car; there will ...

China Time :) - China China China!!!!! Day 1: As we pulled into Hong Kong my excitement heightened. I could see this beautiful, developed, skyscraper, vivid colored city r...

Aloha! Almost Back Home - We reluctantly left Asia and began our Pacific crossing from Taiwan to Hawaii, a journey that would last 11 days. What a culture shock after so many ports...

Sensational sights of Singapore - Marina Bay, Singapore It's amazing how time is flying on this journey. We have such a warped sense of time to begin with - adjusting our clocks forward ev...

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A bit of India - I know I've been WAY slacking on my blog- but I have a ton of work to be getting done right now. This is a travel writing piece I did on India- I figure...

Taipei, Taiwan - Okay. Taiwan. I’m not even excited to write this blog. Going in I had a bad attitude just because it wasn’t Japan. I wasn’t excited at all to go there a...

Saturday March 26th 2011-Hong Kongien experience - Hong Kong! Currency exchange $1US=$8 Hong Kong Dollars(HKD) Probly the most impressive city I have ever seen in my life. We pulled into port on a foggy...

India 2 - “You cannot describe it to anyone, you have to go there and feel it. Which makes Kashi the most holliest grounds in the Hindu world. Every Hindu is suppose...

One degree of separation in Taiwan - I decided that it would be best to start from today and work backwards on my blog, as this will probably be the only way the in between might get filled in...

Student Blogs and Updates - Let’s start with a compilation blog that is being hosted by the Semester at Sea organization itself: Voyage Blog by SemesterAtSea.org – http://semesteratse...

Vietnam - Vietnam March 25, 2011 We arrived into the port later than normal because of the tide. We got to the port around 11 in the morning. We went up the Saigon Ri...

Transportation in India and Viet Nam - I will be doing a few combination posts for India and Viet Nam, the first of which being about transportation. The easiest and most fun way to get around a...

Port Louis, Mauritius and Chennai, India - Hey everyone! I am indeed posting two blog posts close together, the first I wrote right after South Africa but didnt have the means to post it. Anyway we l...

South Africa!!! - Okay, so I realize I have not blogged in a long time. I am sorry. But here is my South Africa blog. India will be next with a few comments about Mauritiu...

Chennai, Delhi, Agra, Varanasi India - March 6, 2011 (Day 1) Today we made it into India. Not knowing what to expect, I went into Chennai with an open mind, hoping for the best. Once the ship...

Ghana: My Lifelong Dream - I had no idea what to expect going in to Africa. I have always wanted to go there because it is a place that is so unknown. My family has never had any des...

BRASIL - Brazil was a port filled with many ups and downs, but I will save those moments for later. The voyage that I am on is the first SAS voyage to ev...

Manaus - Arrived in Manaus this morning, city of 2 million people, past capital of Brazil! After traveling down the Amazon for 3 days, it was quite a shock to see ...

Dominica to Brazil - We entered the mouth of the Amazon River yesterday, an amazing 200 miles wide...yep that's a river. We've got two days until we reach Manaus, Brazil. We ar...

Hectic Day with a silver lining. - I think I've been running on a total of six hours of sleep between two days. I haven't posted much on this blog but I copy and pasted from my tumblr (cup...

- Mauritian Mosque Mauritius!