Overall Thoughts Things I learned and will remember the most: 1.I learned how to eat with my hands and it be totally socially accepted. 2.I learned how to squat over a toilet. 3.I became an expert at bargaining with the merchants to get what I want. 4.I used American money in a new way and saw how far it could get me. 5.I swung from trees in a jungle, rainforest. 6.I picked coffee, the same place that Starbucks orders from. 7.I saw organisms come to life...

Costa Rica May 2 - May 4, 2008 Last Call of Port… last country on our visit around the world… the last trips, the last memories, the last time leading a group of students into a new country to learn new things… Welcome to Costa Rica.We have been at sea for 10 long days and nights.Exams, reading, programming, closing information and the end of the academic year… they are all here at once. Today we pulled into Costa Rica at 8:00 a.m. SHAR...

At Sea to Costa Rica April 23 - May 2 Wow, what a ten days it has been at sea.The Pacific Ocean has been very calm and it is actually very upsetting that we did not get to see many storms or waves out here, as we head to Costa Rica.Sorry that I have not given you a day by day, what I have been normally doing, but the ten days at sea have been very long and draining on all of us. For most of the community, we are still recovering from some bad/interesting beha...

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...