All good things must come to an end. This being our second voyage we knew what to expect but it is still so powerful to watch the students realize that this amazing experience they have just had is now really going to come to an end. There is something about SAS that is different than any other experience you will have. It doesn't matter if you are faculty, staff, life long learner, or student, Semester at Sea will change you. We have been through so much wit...

Exams have been taken, exams have been graded, grades have been turned in, bags have been packed and sent down to the holding area. This is happening. We are getting off the ship. You would think that being done with classes and exams would make things slow down, but NOPE. After the students are done with exams the faculty busily work to grade the final exams and then calculate the grades. Our grades must be turned in 24 hours after the exams are taken an...

Today is a study day PRAISE THE LORD!!!! We haven't had a day with no planned activity since we left the states on June 1st. Final exams are tomorrow, but Geno and I have already prepared and printed our exams so now we are relaxing today. Of course the email and Internet are a hot mess because 400 students are not in class and they are all on the Internet but I guess you can't have it all. Today we had a great lunch with Adrian, a student who is a theater m...

We just had the best two days. August 16th was our anniversary and to celebrate we threw an 80's party in the Glazer Lounge. Costumes were optional but a lot of the faculty, staff and Life Long Learners dressed up and it was hilarious. Kathleen Adams, who teaches Anthropology of Tourism put two rolls of toilet paper underneath her shirt and on top of her shoulders so they looked like huge shoulder pads. She looked fantastic, and hilarious. There were lots of...

Our third day in Poland we had the opportunity to visit Stuthoff Concentration Camp. Of course we learned about concentration camps in school and we have read books on the subject. You think you know, but there is no experience so powerful as visiting a place where more than 85,000 people were murdered. The camp is in a very secluded wooded area about an hour away from Gdansk and was completed in 1939. It was the first camp built outside of German borders an...