February 7 - 9, 2008 Brazil, Brazil… it was an interesting and fun time to be there. During the rest of the week, it was pretty low key for me.On Thursday night, I had port duty on the ship and worked, so I could not plan anything too big to be back on time for duty.The evening duty was GREAT.There were only about 20 students on the ship that night and duty was nice and quiet.I got a lot done that night, uploading my pictures, blogs, job searching and...

February 6, 2008 After a long night at Carnival, it was time to get some sleep!Today, I did not start the day until around 10:30 and a few of us headed down to Itaparica Island.Itaparica is about a 45 minute ferry ride from Salvador.We walked down to our ferry boat, which only cost 3 Reis (which is the Brazilin money) and had a nice quiet ride over to the Island.Once we got there, we found out that we took the wrong ferry to the wrong side of the Island, oh we...

February 5, 2008! Oi, tudo bem? …Tudo bom! (hey, how are you? I'm good!)The local language in Brazil is Pourtagese. Yep, Welcome to Brazil!We arrived in Brazil on Tuesday, February 5 bright and early.The captain was able to make great time from our trip from San Juan.We pulled into port at 5AM, 3 hours ahead of schedule, which was great because 6 other cruise ships were coming in as well.Customs and immigration did not arrive until 8 AM and we did no...

At Sea for DAYS to reach Brazil! January 29, 2008 After a nice long weekend in San Juan, we were ready to get back to ship life and get down and dirty with our work on the ship.Today was pretty busy for me.I started my day at 8 am with breakfast, you cannot miss meal time a ship, since only serve during certain hours, then went to Global Studies to learn about Brazil, did some programming planning for my residents until lunch time.After lunch we were in our stu...