Thursday, January 10, 2013
Testing, testing!
So this is a tester to see if this is actually being sent to my blog from my email. I am now on the ship! I don't want to write much in case this ISN'T working. So someone who is reading this PLEASE email me and let me know that it is!
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
San Diego today, Ensenada tomorrow!
Everything is shoved into two duffle bags. That in itself was an adventure...I've removed more than half the clothes I thought I'd bring, but managed to keep two jars of Nutella with me.
It's my last night in San Diego, and tomorrow morning, I'll be setting sail! For some weird reason that is too complicated to understand, the ship will be leaving from Ensenada instead of San Diego, so I'll be taking a Semester at Sea shuttle to Mexico! I'm on the 9:15am bus.
Today I found out I'll be in room number 3037, which seems like a solid number to me. Even though I'm in San Diego and I've received my room number (still have yet to figure out who my roommate is...), this is still the most surreal thing in the world. Five/six years after first finding out about SAS, and two years after seriously trying to make it happen, I will be boarding the ship tomorrow as a student! And I might pass Archbishop Desmond Tutu on my way to dinner or something, just saying.
Tomorrow night I'll be sleeping in my bed, on deck three (inside), in room 3037...probably somewhere in the middle of the ocean on our way to Hawaii. And when I get up I'll be surrounded by water...living on the water...and about a week from then I'll be waking up early to see us pull into port.
That's it for now! The next time I updated will be when I'm officially on the M.V Explorer. WHOA!
It's my last night in San Diego, and tomorrow morning, I'll be setting sail! For some weird reason that is too complicated to understand, the ship will be leaving from Ensenada instead of San Diego, so I'll be taking a Semester at Sea shuttle to Mexico! I'm on the 9:15am bus.
Today I found out I'll be in room number 3037, which seems like a solid number to me. Even though I'm in San Diego and I've received my room number (still have yet to figure out who my roommate is...), this is still the most surreal thing in the world. Five/six years after first finding out about SAS, and two years after seriously trying to make it happen, I will be boarding the ship tomorrow as a student! And I might pass Archbishop Desmond Tutu on my way to dinner or something, just saying.
Tomorrow night I'll be sleeping in my bed, on deck three (inside), in room 3037...probably somewhere in the middle of the ocean on our way to Hawaii. And when I get up I'll be surrounded by water...living on the water...and about a week from then I'll be waking up early to see us pull into port.
That's it for now! The next time I updated will be when I'm officially on the M.V Explorer. WHOA!
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Charity Ball World Tour
There's a guy who will be on the S13 voyage who is bringing a little something special with him on board...
500 soccer balls!
He's working with a company called Charity Ball that is going to donate 500 soccer balls to Semester at Sea, at which point us students will donate them to kids that we meet around the world. It seems like quite the special adventure, and I'm excited to get involved once on the MV Explorer!
He's going to be updating a blog while we're gone, so if anyone is interested, here's the link:
http://charityballworldtour.blogspot.com/
5 days until San Diego, 8 days until boarding the MV Explorer and traveling around the world.
Happy 2013!!! It's gonna be a GREAT year.
500 soccer balls!
He's working with a company called Charity Ball that is going to donate 500 soccer balls to Semester at Sea, at which point us students will donate them to kids that we meet around the world. It seems like quite the special adventure, and I'm excited to get involved once on the MV Explorer!
He's going to be updating a blog while we're gone, so if anyone is interested, here's the link:
http://charityballworldtour.blogspot.com/
5 days until San Diego, 8 days until boarding the MV Explorer and traveling around the world.
Happy 2013!!! It's gonna be a GREAT year.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Official SAS Spring 13 Blog
Here's the link to the official Semester at Sea blog for the Spring 2013 voyage. They usually update it with events that are going on on the ship as well as field programs that students go on. Sometimes there are pictures, sometimes there are videos, and sometimes there are student stories.
Check it out while I'm gone! I've been following it for a couple years and it's actually quite interesting.
http://www.semesteratsea.org/voyage-blogs/spring-2013/
9 days until takeoff, 6 until San Diego!!!
Check it out while I'm gone! I've been following it for a couple years and it's actually quite interesting.
http://www.semesteratsea.org/voyage-blogs/spring-2013/
9 days until takeoff, 6 until San Diego!!!
Monday, December 24, 2012
Fellow Voyagers
Consider checking out some of the blogs below. These are some fellow students who I will be traveling around the world with!
Katelyn Campbell and Sam Jensen: http://samandkatiesas.blogspot.com/
Emily Kathe: http://www.emileekatze.com/sea/
Jo Jordan: http://odd-strained-shapes.tumblr.com/
Kaitlynn Lagman: http://ramblingsofaglobalcitizen.blogspot.com/
Mariechen Puchert: http://barefootmeds.wordpress.com
Braden Herndon: http://bradenherndon.wordpress.com/
Christine Madsen: http://whalewalk.wordpress.com
Sophie Shufro: http://travelblargh.tumblr.com/
Cassandra J Cole http://cassandratravelstheworld.blogspot.com/
Heather Clausen http://imonaboat2013.tumblr.com/
Pabitra Khanal http://aroundtheglobewithpk.tumblr.com/
Kevin Pelaez http://themetricsystematsea.tumblr.com
Jessica Wallet http://jessseastheworld.wordpress.com/
Rachel Bassett http://seawhatisee.wordpress.com/
Carly Campbell http://carlyatsea.tumblr.com/
Alix Grossman http://onceuponaship.wordpress.com/
Maddie Hodges http://hodgepodge-at-sea.tumblr.com/
Tory Warner http://alternativegrandtour.wordpress.com/
Conor Murphy http://aroundtheworldwithconor.tumblr.com/
Taylor Smith http://aroundtheworldin106days.wordpress.com
Kelsey Howell http://adventuring101.blogspot.com
Tess Vanderhoof http://tess-abroad.tumblr.com/
Dana Drakehttp://dmd327.tumblr.com
Jessica Strickler: http://arewethereyetsas2013.blogspot.com/
Amanda Paulson: http://helloworlditsamanda.blogspot.com/
Lesley Wright http://lesleyywrightt.wordpress.com/
Emily Juhnke: http://sp13voyagearoundtheworld.blogspot.com/
Courtney Rockwood: http://courtneyatsea.wordpress.com/
Colleen Chapman: http://colleenc-atsea.tumblr.com/
Tyler Hallmark: http://www.journalearth.com/
Erica McCarthy: ericaaroundtheworld.wordpress.com
Janelle Williams: http://janelleatsea.tumblr.com
Sydney Porter http://sailthroughroughwaters.tumblr.com/
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Tick Tock
It's December 12 (12/12/12 for all you wish makers out there). Which means that...oh...in less than a month, I will set off on my voyage of journeying around the world. At this time next month, I'll be somewhere on the MV Explorer, doing classwork, talking to people, eating potatoes and pasta. A lot of what I normally do at home. Except I'll be on a ship. Traveling around the world.
Yesterday concluded the fall quarter of my sophomore year of college, and my first quarter at Fairhaven. This has by far been the best quarter so far, and I can't wait to make the next two quarters even better! I don't think it's really settled in that I'm going yet. It's always been something that was so far off in the distance, that now that it's creeping up on me, it still doesn't feel like it's just around the corner. Which it totally is.
I've signed up for quite a bit of trips. More than I think I originally intended to, but these are trips that I've had my eye on ever since I knew SAS existed. Home stays, service visits, and even a little bit of adventurous trips thrown in there. I'll be traveling around Beijing for about 4 days (and even tobogganing down the Great Wall!), I'm going to be traveling to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam and doing a home stay there (during Tet, no less), I'll be feeding monks at a monastery in Burma, riding a Snake Boat in India (I'm still not entirely sure what this is...), doing a cultural cooking class in South Africa, visiting the slave dungeons in Ghana, and possibly hiking up to Berber villages in Morocco. And that's just one thing for each port, and I'm doing multiple day trips in a couple of them.
I'm trying to decide what I'm most excited for at this point, and I really can't say. When I think I've decided on a favorite trip, I remember another one and the process of attempting to pick out a favorite excursion starts all over again.
Winter break has officially started, which, if this were any other normal break would mean relaxing, watching too much TV, reading here and there, and just generally being lazy. But since this is the break before SAS, that means I'll be crazy busy with last minute paperwork, getting everything I could possibly want or need for the 4 months I'll be gone, and finally...packing.
If there are any other SASers out there reading this, I wish you well with getting ready, and I'll see you on the ship in less than a month!!
Yesterday concluded the fall quarter of my sophomore year of college, and my first quarter at Fairhaven. This has by far been the best quarter so far, and I can't wait to make the next two quarters even better! I don't think it's really settled in that I'm going yet. It's always been something that was so far off in the distance, that now that it's creeping up on me, it still doesn't feel like it's just around the corner. Which it totally is.
I've signed up for quite a bit of trips. More than I think I originally intended to, but these are trips that I've had my eye on ever since I knew SAS existed. Home stays, service visits, and even a little bit of adventurous trips thrown in there. I'll be traveling around Beijing for about 4 days (and even tobogganing down the Great Wall!), I'm going to be traveling to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam and doing a home stay there (during Tet, no less), I'll be feeding monks at a monastery in Burma, riding a Snake Boat in India (I'm still not entirely sure what this is...), doing a cultural cooking class in South Africa, visiting the slave dungeons in Ghana, and possibly hiking up to Berber villages in Morocco. And that's just one thing for each port, and I'm doing multiple day trips in a couple of them.
I'm trying to decide what I'm most excited for at this point, and I really can't say. When I think I've decided on a favorite trip, I remember another one and the process of attempting to pick out a favorite excursion starts all over again.
Winter break has officially started, which, if this were any other normal break would mean relaxing, watching too much TV, reading here and there, and just generally being lazy. But since this is the break before SAS, that means I'll be crazy busy with last minute paperwork, getting everything I could possibly want or need for the 4 months I'll be gone, and finally...packing.
If there are any other SASers out there reading this, I wish you well with getting ready, and I'll see you on the ship in less than a month!!
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