January 24, 2008 Well, the first full day began today!The students started off today with their continuation of orientation and also started one of their courses, Global Studies.Global studies is a course that All students and all faculty and staff have to participate in.Through this course, the ship community will learn about the upcoming countries we will be visiting, about the politics, culture and dynamic country port.It was interesting to be back in the cla...

January 23, 2008 Well.. we are officially off to SEA!!You have no idea what is going through my mind right now.Today was a busy day, with check-in, orientation, floor meetings (or what we call SEA Meetings) and a bunch of activities for our residents. First, we got 750 residents, their luggage and parents onto the ship in 4 hours… crazy!Just image, trying to get through a port security, then ship security, then trying to have cabin stewards get the stud...

January 20, 2008 Day two on the boat was great!!Have you ever been on a large boat that accommodates 1000 people and have it be empty with only 100 people?It is pretty cool to have the entire ship to ourselves.Training today was so much fun.Number one, when can you tell others that you had student life training in Nassau, Bahamas?Probably never… but I guess I can tell everyone that now.We reviewed a lot of ship safety procedures, reviewed our living and le...

January 19, 2008 The Airport experience….So let me tell you 5 AM came real fast this morning.We headed out to Newark airport and got checked-in.So first things first… checking luggage for a 4 month trip is very interesting.Of course, one of my bags was overweight by 10 pounds, the interesting aspect was that this piece of luggage was not even entirely packed to the fullest… go figure.But for $25, we were able to check that luggage, it was wel...