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 our second day at sea and the first day of classes. The sea had been good to us but this morning around 5:00 we started to feel the rolling a little more. It isn't so much the front to back movement but there is more side to side. It is fun to watch everyone try to walk around we all look like spaghetti noodles trying to find a wall to hold on to. Yesterday the students had a full long day of orientation. It is really important that they understa...

It happened, it happened, we are sailing away on the MV Explorer! What a day this has been. This morning we got up at 7am and went to the gym at 7:30 (that is reserved time for the faculty) then we got some breakfast and headed back to our cabin to get some work done. The internet woes are already hitting us. Everything is very slow but you just have to adjust your mentality and it is fine. I have actually really enjoyed not having my phone for the past 12 ...

What an exciting day it has been. This morning (which feels like last year) we continued with orientation from 8:30-11am then we all had to check out of the hotel and bring our luggage down to the conference room. Geno and I dropped off our luggage and headed to the mall for some additional supplies and then came back to the hotel, had our lunch and had a great Facetime conversation with my Dad for Father's Day!!! Love you Dad. Geno tried to Skype call his da...

We woke up earlier than we had been today to make sure we got some breakfast before the orientation began. Our laundry returned around 7:30am and it smells fresh and clean and ready to sail! After breakfast we spent most of the day in the Mayflower Suite (a conference room) going through our orientation. We covered a ton of material and had lunch and then covered another ton of material. Has to be done right? We have some incredible faculty sailing. I will ...