26 days: pieces of a puzzle

Each class has a field lab, worth at least 20% of our mark. Basically, pre-planned adventures.

For my Acting class- For my Religions of the World class -

 Not pictured: for my Astronomy class we will be spending some nights studying the stars while on the boat. Therefore we won't have a traditional in-port field lab. For my Global Shakespeare course we will we watching a Shakespeare production in South Africa and meeting the cast and director.

Semester at Sea also offers planned excursions. The plus of these is that they are hassle free, completely planned and organized. The downside is they are more expensive and more "tourist-y".

I've signed up for two, both in which independent travel is more intimidating. I've thought long and hard about which trips I wanted. I cannot wait to see the Great Wall of China and the Forbidden City, which I have heard in so many of my mother's stories, and after my Hinduism class, seeing the Ganges in India might bring me to tears.

Other than these trips, I have few plans for travel. I have ideas, dreams, thoughts, from reading a plethora of student blogs, but I am waiting to (hopefully) make friends on the voyage and then make plans together.