The following blog is brought to you by the letter "N". Examples of words that begin with "N" are Namibia and Neptune Day. Neptune Day is the day the ship crosses the equator. To celebrate, we had a special ceremony where all the pollywogs (people who haven't crossed the equator) become shellbacks (people who have crossed the equator). At 7:30 in the morning, the crew came around the ship dressed in togas with fake spears and shields and h...

Greetings! This blog is bought to you by fuel boats in Gibraltar, the game of Duck Duck Goose, and Moroccan mint tea. Morocco was definitely an Experience. The day before we were supposed to dock in Morocco, we were scheduled to bunker for fuel in Gibraltar. Bunkering is when you don't actually dock, you just drop the anchor. Then the boat with fuel pulled up next to us and attached a fuel line and voila! There was fuel. Theoretically. At the very end of our ...

Spain, David Gies* Style: My mother emailed me last week asking how the David Gies lecture was. At the time I didn't know who David Gies was. The night before we got to Spain, I found out that the really awesome guy who had been teaching Global Studies and giving us the Spain pre-port lectures was David Gies. Yay! I finally knew his name. Unfortunately that night we all found out that he was not permanent faculty as we had all thought, but an interport lecturer ...

This entry says that I am in the Bahamas. Do not let that fool you. (The site makes me pick a country.) I'm over halfway across the Atlantic!!!!! (Apparently we're so ahead of schedule that the ship had to slow down so we don't get to Cadiz early. There are also rumors that if we're still early we'll just drop anchor in the middle of the ocean for a day or so.) A lot has happened in the past week or so. A short recap: Really Really Cool Things 1.The schedu...

This entry says that I am in the Bahamas. Do not let that fool you. (The site makes me pick a country.) I'm over halfway across the Atlantic!!!!! (Apparently we're so ahead of schedule that the ship had to slow down so we don't get to Cadiz early. There are also rumors that if we're still early we'll just drop anchor in the middle of the ocean for a day or so.) A lot has happened in the past week or so. A short recap: Really Really Cool Things 1.The schedu...