September 29, 2011
Castles + Dungeons: Ghana’s Tragic Past
Semester at Sea offers 300 trips through its international field program, distributed among the 14 stops we’ll be making. These range...
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September 23, 2011
Photo Friday: Cape Cod, Massachusetts
When I lived in New York, I had many friends from New England who would talk about summering in the Hamptons or Cape Cod, a concept completely...
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September 21, 2011
Visiting Ghana, Africa’s Most Interesting Country
Two nights before the MV Explorer arrives in a country, we have a cultural pre-port that all Semester at Sea participants attend. This can be...
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September 19, 2011
From Pollywog to Shellback: Neptune Day on Semester at Sea
This past Saturday, the morning after the Semester at Sea ship departed from Ghana, was meant to be a Reading Day. This is a chance for the...
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September 16, 2011
Scenes from a Moroccan Riad in Marrakech
I spent more than two hours writing a blog post to accompany these photos from our recent visit to Morocco, and when I hit “save”...
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September 14, 2011
Madness in the Marrakech Medina
The first time I was in Morocco, I had a drastically different experience than my second visit last week. For one, I was traveling with one of...
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September 12, 2011
Sleeping Like a Sheikh in Morocco
While in Morocco, I had two days of duty and two days off, so we took those latter days and headed straight for Marrakech. If there’s...
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September 9, 2011
Cruising to Casablanca, Morocco’s Industrial Port
When we arrived in Casablanca, Morocco last Saturday, it wasn’t exactly the sexy image you might expect to see. But I’d...
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September 7, 2011
Working on Semester at Sea: A Day in the Field Office
So many of you have asked, “what is the Field Office and what is it exactly that you do on the ship?” There is no cut-and-dry...
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September 5, 2011
Castaways on the M/V Explorer: My First Semester at Sea Voyage
The thing about living on a ship is that, after two weeks, you finally arrive on land for a couple days of blissful, uninterrupted Internet,...
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