January 2011
11 posts
This is going to be a long one. About 3 hours ago the ship left port in Brazil, and I have had the most amazing 4 days of my life. Ill start with Sunday, our first day in Manaus. Basically, it was Sunday and everything was closed so we walked around, went into a few stores, had some street food, and then did some sight seeing. There is an old opera house in downtown Manaus, left over from the...
So last night we had our first official SAS talent show, super exciting. There were actually some amazing people who sang, and one guy who played a mean fiddle, who was from
guess where Dana
.APPALACHIA. Hahaha I know, but actually he was amazing. There was also an amazing (insert heavy sarcastic intonation here) performance of Bad Romance by Lady Gaga, complete with one-piece swimsuit and half...
We left Dominica around 8 pm on Tuesday and Molly and I promptly fell asleep. Being in port is exhausting, and theres not rest for the weary until we get back on the ship. The next day classes resumed and nothing that exciting happened. I love my South Asia music class. Despite the title, its actually about mostly about religions of India and how chanting and music are related to them. So...
Dominica is beautiful. I was expecting a beachy tourist destination, but what I discovered when I woke up yesterday morning was huge mountains covered in rain forest and shrouded by misty clouds. Think Lost/Jurassic Park style. Turns out all of the mountains are volcanoes, and one of them is active, so there are tons of sulfur springs all over the island and black sand beaches. I have had the most...
So second day of classes is almost over. Everyone has been complaining about global studies but I kind of like it. Today we talked about maps and how they influence us a lot of times without us thinking about them, but how most of them are tailored to serve the creators specific wishes. I was interested the whole time but I noticed lots of yawns going on around me. So that was at 9:20 this morning...
So we’ve finally embarked! We left last night at 8 pm on the dot, waving goodbye to Molly’s parents and all the other families waiting on the pier. They were all so excited, shouting and whistling and waving signs. It was really cool and the atmosphere was definitely infecting. I stood there thinking that I couldn’t believe it was ACTUALLY happening…after months of...
So my flight through Atlanta got canceled because of all the weather, and since we HAVE to get to Nassau in the morning on Tuesday we ended up having to buy another ticket on a different airline. All of the airline phone services were down because so many people are calling so my dad and I had to go to the St. Louis airport and ask them what we should do. It was an expensive last minute ticket...
