Leaving Salvador was tough. It’s so hard to get back into the routine of going to classes and all that jazz after you’ve been playing in a foreign country for 5 days. We were all extremely exhausted on Thursday. I got up for my 8am class and then slept from 9:30 til 12:45. I’m glad I woke up then because I had class at 12:55! I did, however, miss out on a GOOD lunch of mac and cheese and meatballs! Ugh I was mad. It was the first time they&rsquo...

Guess who spent the day at the circus today?! Yep…ME! I went on an organized trip with SAS to the Cico Picolino circus school here in Salvador. It was amazing! A couple of us have been anticipating this trip for quite some time and it turned out even better than I thought. Our tour guide, Paula, gave us information about the circus school on the bus as we drove to the school. This particular school has 250 students at one location and 100 students at anoth...

Did you get the pictures I sent you? It took up quite a few internet minutes but I thought you’d appreciate them! We’re on our way to South Africa now. Classes are actually kind of tough because we don’t have weekends so the class work is pretty intense because there’s no time to play catch-up. Technically you could do work while in port, but who wants to do that?! That’s it! Dad do you want an SAS t-shirt too? Do you think Ben will ...

I can now say that I’ve been to a church service in Brazil! It was quite the experience. There were 14 of us trying to make it to a Baptist church for a 10 o’clock service today. We almost didn’t end up going because since Carnaval is going on, the all of the banks, post offices, stores, and churches are closed. Well apparently the churches are only closed to tourists. Interestingly, we found out that evangelical Christians do not even attend Ca...

Date: 02/14/2007 To: Claire From: Al Message: I can’t believe you’re getting that much snow! I hope you go sledding a lot and also take Kallie out to play in it! It’s the complete opposite here on the ship. We just crossed the equator at noontime today, so I’m officially in the Southern Hemisphere of the world! It is SO HOT. I can only stay out in the sun for about an hour now because it’s just hot and humid. It still ...