September 9th I woke up this morning early to see the sunrise. Compared to the first day, it was awesome. The sun came up over the hills of forest and you could see the mist on the tops of the trees. My eye hurt really bad and was also very bloodshot. I must have gotten bug spray in it or something. After the sunset, I went back to bed in my hammock. I slept in long pants and long sleeves and went to bed very hot and sticky. Throughout the night I k...

September 7th Last night a few of us tried sleeping on the deck to be able to catch the sunset and also the ship pulling into Salvador. No such luck though, we got rained on. We were scheduled to pull in at 7am so I woke up 6:30am, but when I got up, we were already docked. It takes a while for the students to be let off the ship. First, Brazilian officials needed to come onto the ship and clear it to allow the passengers off. Second, we need to have a "di...

September 10 After waking up from a good nights sleep in the jungle, we set out from our campsite on a 2 hour hike. We had a man from the local village lead the way with a machete while our tour guide, Fabio pointed out certain wildlife, plants, and other interesting things along the way. We did not see any animals or snakes on the hike though...I know, what a bummer!! The guide pointed out certain medicinal plants. He showed us how the spines fr...

September 6th Today was a long hard day of classes, but who cares because we are in Brazil tomorrow!! We played volley ball all afternoon. The ship was barely moving because we were ahead of schedule, this allowed for some good volleyball conditions. There is a basketball/volleyball court on the 7th deck that is surrounded by net so the balls don't go overboard. We had our second pre-port meeting tonight at 8pm, this one more on health and safety rather than cu...

September 4th Today was "A" day so I didn't have any classes. I slept in pretty late and got woken up by Slap shot when he came back from his first class. I got an invoice telling me what trips I got into for Sale 1, which covered all days trips up to and including India. I got into the visit to an AIDS shelter in Namibia, a township visit in South Africa, a service project in India, but I did not get into a socioeconomic trip of the slums of Chennai....