Posted by Amanda After a less than exciting first day, we decided to jump on an SAS trip. We had heard about all of these beaches but we aren't near them. The thought of working things out with a taxi driver didn't seem fun. Plus, so many of the students rented villas on various beaches--mostly Flic en Flac--and I didn't want to run into them having spring break. There was a trip that we had wanted to go on but didn't sign up for thinking we could try to d...

Posted by Amanda So far I'm not loving Port Louis in Mauritius. We docked and had our diplomatic briefing. I have not been well the last few days so we both went back to bed for awhile. We ate fried chicken on the ship for lunch then headed out. Of course it is crazy hot so that is less fun. We are docked at a real dock--nothing nice about it, just big, ugly ships all around and it isn't safe at night. We have to take a taxi or a water taxi from the ship ...

Posted by Amanda Tonight we had the Aegean Sea social. Each deck or floor of the ship is considered a sea based on who their RD is. I have all of the second, which is the smallest. We are called the Aegean Sea. Throughout the voyage, each sea gets to have a sea social in the faculty and staff lounge. The lounge is in the front of the ship with beautiful views of the ocean. It also has a greater alcohol selection, though students were limited to beer and wi...

Posted by Amanda So, more on skydiving. I actually went skydiving! Another RD, Marsh Allen, went with me. Well, really it began with another one of the RDs being an avid skydiver. She tried to bring her parachute with her but security at the airport in the US got nervous about someone flying with a parachute and a one-way ticket. She had to leave it behind. Her excitement slowly started to infect others of us. She went in Brazil with one of the RDs. The...

Posted by Noah We were foiled in our first attempt to get to Table Mountain by high winds. As you may recall, we had already paid for a cab to get us to the cable cars, but arrived ten minutes after they had shut down. After returning from safari, we saw that a thick cloud layer was covering the mountain the next morning, so it would have been pointless to go then. That left us one day to see the defining feature of Cape Town. Luckily, our final day was a b...