Happy Valentine's Day & Happy Neptune Day! Today our shipboard community celebrated Neptune Day, which is historically a ceremony for mariners who are crossing the Equator for the first time. The crew dressed up in ridiculous costumes came banging drums through the decks to wake everyone up at about 7:30am and we all gathered up on the Pool Deck, Deck 7 to start the ceremony. I got to be a part of King Neptune's court with some of the other RD's as Fish Ha...

Not a whole lot new to write about... we're crossing the South Atlantic and everyone is settling back in to life on the ship. The weather has been good and the seas are fair. I've settled in to my job, at least it seems so, but new things come up each day. I'll be leading a workshop later this week on Careers in Student Affairs and Higher Education, or more like How do you get to be an RD on Semester at Sea? And tomorrow is Neptune Day, which I'm sure will be a...

Happy Birthday Andrew! Out to sea...Back to work! We set sail from Brazil on February 9th at about 9:30pm and we are definately back at work. After a nice Bon Voyage BBQ out on Deck 7 Aft, I was on Gangway Duty that night and it was a little wake-up call. All passengers, which would be faculty, staff, and students, need to be on-board at 2100 for a sailing time of 2300...that means about 850 people! I was stationed at the Gangway from about 7:00pm on. Unfortunat...

Wow...I have alot to catch up on! The past 3 days in Salvador have been great; skydiving on Itaparica Island, futebol, a local guided tour, a Brazilian steakhouse, street food, coconuts and flip flops! I'm not even sure where to start. Day 3 - Feb 7, 2008 - KP and I decided to head back over to Itaparica and check out the dropzone there to go skydiving. We left the ship at 8:45am and after another crazy ferry boat terminal experience, we finally got on a boat an...

Day 2 - Itaparica Island: Misadventures in Language and Ferry Boats! We decided to head out to Itaparica Island today, which is on the other side of the Bay from Salvador. No real plan in mind, we set out for the ferry, but our group had conflicting information on the ferries and after a walk through some shady part of town, we ended up at the 'wrong' one; the car ferry that goes to a different part of Itaparica, instead of the passenger ferry to the part of the ...