This morning we arrived in Cádiz, Spain, and which is pronounced KAH-deez . We woke up as the pilot boat was leading us into port. Many of the students and faculty were there with us at 7:00am as we watched the sunrise over Cádiz. One of the students had a sign that said "Thank you Mom for showing me the WORLD." She was taking a picture with the sign and I think she plans to do that in each port. We thought that was so neat: to see a student really b...

Have you ever been invited to a dinner with the Captain of your ship and Archbishop Desmond Tutu? Well, we have!! It is 11:45pm, or 23:45 ship time, and we just returned from our "Captain's Dinner." It was so much fun! Every faculty, staff, and lifelong learner has an opportunity to attend a Captain's Dinner during the voyage and we were invited to the very first one. No "cafeteria" food for us tonight! A cocktail hour began at 7:30pm, in the ...

We haven't written in a few days because of the internet situation and the fact that we have been super busy with the start of classes. On the ship we have "A" days and "B" days, and now we have completed a cycle of both days. We have taught one session of each of our courses and now the students have a chance to drop/add. We had some pretty rough seas after we left Halifax, but now we are almost half way to Spain and we are ahead of the sto...

It was a good day at sea today; we have had very little rocking compared to the trip up to Halifax. There is not much to say about today because we were in student orientation ALL DAY! I know the students are saturated and I am sure that the faculty and staff feel even more so. I think we are all ready to begin our classes; we will teach for 6 days and then we will arrive in Spain!! The highlight of the day was our first encounter as a group with Archbishop Desm...