Rob is teaching his Religious Freedom class right now and I am in the computer center writing you. Did you know that the US State Department has a Religious Freedom Site for many countries on its web site. Rob's students are assigned to check the site for all the information available at this site for each country as we approach port.
We had a "cultural preport", required attendance for all of us on this voyage. We have five faculty members and two students from Spain--so they ran a very thorough and funny program for us. Spanish ham is something must try, we were told, even vegetarians will like it. their was a great emphasis on footwear--no white sox, no sox with sandals, and no tennis shoes, especiall white. All will signal to pick pockets that we are western tourists, and all will totally embarrass our spanish faculty and students.
I just noticed the time. I must grab some lunch and head for my noon class. Where did the time go?
- From Ellen
- Rob and I are going around the world on the 100th voyage of Semester at Sea. We board our ship, the MV Explorer, a floating college campus, in Norfolk, VA on August 24 with the rest of the 30 faculty members and their families. We arrive in our first port, Hallifax, Novia Scotia, on August 27 where 650 college students from 250 colleges and universities come on board to begin their Semester at Sea, for which they earn credit toward their bachelors degrees. When you are on the Interactive map, you can click on each port to see when we are there and see information about each port.
Friday, September 4, 2009
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