One Frenzied Week!

Fog is all we saw when we approached Halifax, Nova Scotia

The next day was perfect in Halifax

As soon as all students were on board the ship, we had a life boat drill

These past ten days have zipped by in a furious frenzy.  We arrived in Halifax in complete fog. The students got on the ship while we spent two days looking around Halifax.  We then left Halifax toward Spain and had one day of orientation with students. It was all quite stimulating and things seemed to be going at a relative steady pace. Then, classes started and time seems to have sped up. The students are very interested in the voyage and are quite serious about what they are doing but the pace of the classes is frenetic since we have no weekends and teach pretty much every day. The first day of my Global Studies class went well but the ship was skirting the remnants of hurricane Danielle and the seas were even rougher than on the trip from Norfolk to Halifax.  As I lectured, trying to keep my balance, I could see students here and there running out of the room!  After a couple of days of classes though, the seas turned calm, the sun came out, and in the last two days we've had remarkable sunsets from the back (aft) of the ship. While we were skirting the bad weather, they didn't even let us go outside because of high winds (and rain of course), but now we can dine outside and feel almost like we are on a cruise (while you don't have classes, or meetings, or are working on your next class). We are now less than two days for arriving in Cadiz, Spain and everyone is looking forward to exploring Spain for five days. More to come ...