

Salvador, Brazil
21 April 2010 - Day 1
There is already a very serious problem with Brazil that I notice within a few hours, if not minutes, of being off the ship. Including the fact that the leading cause of death in Brazil is homicide [as opposed to traffic / automobile accidents in every other country aside from AIDS in South Africa] and a fair percentage of Semester at Sea students got robbed / mugged / whatever, I immediately felt terrible; there was a deep set fe...