Follow Semester at Sea Spring 2011

#756 Wait, Is That Our Porch? - Our front porch is the most in-your-face architectural feature of our bungalow. Massive tapered river rock columns support a network of wooden beams shap...

decompression~day one & two - hi fellow friends & family~ day one and i did not realize how much i needed these 2 days between my life in Santa Barbara and my life starting tomorrow on...

SAS Spring 2019, Pictures of all Kinds - Here are some pictures that may not have been shown previously but give a little glance of life at sea. We always had a great time. My meeting location w...

Finishing up the voyage (7 years later) - Well, we all know time flies, and so much life happened in the time since we sailed around the world in 2011. This post is dedicated to finishing out the S...

welcoming the new year - The final day of 2015 is upon us. Tomorrow we begin anew. This is one of my favorite days of the year, every time... Time to shed what no longer serves ...

We heart NY - Note: I began writing this post late September 2014. Vivian just proofed the draft and photos tonight and has given me permission to publish! A month ago t...

Journal Entry from Monday's Alumni Event - *On January 5th, 2015 I attended a "Rock the Dock" alumni event in San Diego. The MV Explorer is parting ways with the Semester at Sea program and being so...

almost 6 months home - okay, so traditionally I have done an “I’ve been home 6 months!” recap of my adventures abroad, but right now I’m feeling a lot of things about my time i...

A Day in San Diego - Our last day brought us to San Diego in time for a beautiful sunrise. We left the ship and spent the day walking along the water looking at the boats and e...

- Hi everyone! We are alive and well, now. Had a bit of food poisoning in Nassau and confined to cabin for 3 days but much better now. Probably won't be w...

Address for interview at 12pm tomorrow - 221 S Figueroa Street ( suite 500 5th floor) Los Angeles, CA 90012 Make a right onto Figueroa Street off of 2nd street and the building is on the 2nd and F...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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!

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