Kenya's closed, please go away ( Read more... )

Desmond Tutu is the most adorable old man ever. Nobel Peace Prize winner, Archbishop, and all around cool dude ( Read more... )

Brazil is fantastic. This trip just gets better and better. Our first day in Salvador we walked around the city getting acclimated. The architecture has a huge European influence and but you can also see the vivid colors of the Caribbean ( Read more... )

right now i´m sitting in a cafe in Caracas Venezuela! How unreal is that? the city is beautiful. the hills are green and the water is blue and warm (90 degrees!). I´ve met some amazing people, one from Philly and one from NYC are my closest friends right now. my roommate is from colorado and foes to University of Denver ( Read more... )

Yay! My brother is coming up tomorrow for a visit. Then we're off to the bahamas on saturday morning. Too bad it takes all day to get there. I leave Sea-tac at 0600 and don't get in to Nassua until almost 2100. That's a long day of air travel. AND i have to go through the George Bush Airport in Houston. I'm still refusing to call Regan-National ( Read more... )

just got an e-mail from SAS!

I am very happy to share with you some exciting news about our upcoming voyage of discovery. Over the years, Semester at Sea participants have been very fortunate to meet with a wide variety of distinguished individuals; Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela are but a few of the program’s notable ( Read more... )

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the scatter is starting ( Read more... )

So, 11 days ( Read more... )

How 'bout that sunshine huh? It is finally looking summer-like in Washington ( Read more... )