Wow, So much has happened since my last post. I made it safely to Florida, met my team and we hopped on a ship two days later. The weather in Florida was beautiful but too hot for me. The faculty and staff cruised for a day without students, which was nice and quiet. We also did some orientations, planning sessions and training. We got some scheduling out of the way and prepped for students. I knew from some of the researching I had done, that Valdez, a form...

Well thanks to a lot of help from my Mom and sister Colleen, I packed my bags and headed out. I was so glad to spend time with my parents and sister, just missed seeing older sister Kimberly. My mom is featured in the photo for the post tonight. She was amazing at packing and wrapped toiletries in bags and tape to prevent explosions! Thanks to my boyfirend Tim, who stayed with me for a few days and dropped me off at the airport this morning. He has been a great s...

I wanted to make sure some of the basics of my voyage were posted. You can find all this information through the Semester at Sea website, http://www.semesteratsea.org/. You will find a whole tab for my voyage under the Current/Upcoming Voyage section. It outlines the ports, time changes and even how to send mail and packages to me on the ship. Once we officially depart, all the voyage information will be outlined in the Current voyage tab. I uploaded a photo of ...

Well, We've continued to meet as a Student Life team and have gotten to know some of our colleagues. We are broken into small groups to better get acquainted, Mark and Mindy are my team members, we decided we would be team Midwest because we all have ties to the area. Tonight, during our conference call we recieved our collateral assignments and I will be chairing the Emerging Groups committee who will work with students forming organizations during the voyage. ...

Well, yesterday was our first Student Life team meeting. This involved the Dean and Assistant Dean of Students as well as the 9 Resident Director team. We met via conference call and almost everyone was able to be present. We all introduced ourselves and went over some of the structure of the administration. There's and Executive Dean, Academic Dean and a Dean of Students. I fall under the supervision of the Dean of Students. We went through some questions, main...