(Mood: Scary/Excited, as in, it's scary how excited I am)
Here are some highlights from the past two months. Hopefully you think they're highlights, too.
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| The John Lennon Wall |
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| Cassis, France |
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| Český Krumlov |
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| The Bone Church |
Less than fifty days till my ship embarks on its voyage around the world.
(Whoop Whoop)
I guess I never fully explained the purpose of this blog, nor have I gone into great detail about my impending journey. August 26 (which if you check your calenders is fast approaching!), marks the day the M.V Explorer will set sail from Montreal, Quebec. The ship will be carrying me along with 700 other classmates, crew members and Life-Long-Learners. The M.V Explorer, over the course of approximately four months, will circumnavigate the globe, making stops in Morocco, Ghana, South Africa, Mauritius, India, Malaysia, Viet Nam, (Cambodia), China, Japan, Hawaii, Costa Rica, and Cuba along the way.
I discovered Semester at Sea two years ago during a spell of nocturnal googling. I knew immediately (or at least shortly after) that it was something I wanted to do. When my sister Jori entered college, she began exploring every inlet and landmass available for travel. Hearing her gallimaufry of adventures and stories, one can only generate through travel, inspired my own thirst for exploration. I knew when I set foot in college that I wanted to get out there, create my own stew of memories. I just didn't know where or when. As I sat wrapped in a blanket on the floor of my Chicago apartment at an ungodly hour, watching a promotional video for Semester at Sea, I got chills (and not because it was December and my apartment building had the heat turned off). Everything communicated on the video excited me. I identified, or wanted to identify with these people; professors and students alike. As a student on the ship I could collaborate on philanthropic efforts worldwide by building a house in Ghana or volunteering at an orphanage in India. I could turn my history lessons into reality by climbing through the dark and narrow Chu Chi tunnels, see firsthand what war is capable of producing at Hiroshima, and watch the sun rise over Angkor Wat, an exciting alternative to glancing at pictures of it in my Art History textbook. I had to be apart of it and as of August 26, I finally will be.
Now to get to the purpose of this blog--I have never had a blog and I'm not really the "blogger" type (but who is?). However, it was through reading other students' blogs that I confirmed my aforementioned intuition regarding the greatness of this program. Also, I heard the internet on the ship is slow and expensive, making blogging an easier substitute to recount my adventures to friends and family (mom).
(Video from the Spring 11' trip)
Above is sample from the massive amounts of SAS videos I've consumed over the past twelve months (it really was a disgusting amount). Good thing this is happening.
Until next time peeps.
Love,
Meg
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