Embark: January 7th February 24th - March 1st
Hilo, Hawaii Cochin, India
Arrive & Depart: January 14th March 6th - March 11th
Yokohama, Japan Port Louis, Mauritius
January 26th - January 27th Arrive & Depart: March 18th
Kobe, Japan Cape Town, South Africa
January 29th - January 31st March 25th - March 30th
Shanghai, China Walvis Bay, Namibia
February 3rd - February 4th April 2nd - April 6th
Hong Kong, China Casablanca, Morocco
February 7th - February 8th April 18th - April 22nd
Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam London, England
February 11th - February 17th Disembark: April 29th
Singapore, Singapore
February 19th - February 20th
On January 7th, 2015 I will board the MV Explorer (a large passenger ship) from a port in Ensenada, Mexico for four months to attend a semester of school at sea. On the trip I will be traveling to 12 different countries and 15 different cities (all listed above) in 112 days. While on the ship I'm required to be enrolled in four classes (12 credits). You can read a more in depth description of the classes here 'Spring 2015 Courses and Field Labs'. All the classes I'm enrolled in are to fulfill my last general education requirements before I begin the Journalism professional program in the fall. As far as classes go, we only attend classes when we are traveling between ports, on an A and B day schedule. We do however have a required Field Lab for each of our classes, which is a trip you take with your professor and your classmates in a certain country.
These are the classes I'm registered for:
- SOC-2320 Gender and Society
- PLIR-3310 Ethics & Human Rights Politics
- ARH-2500 Experiencing World Architecture
- EVSC-2050 Intro to Oceanography
That's kind of a short and sweet summary of what I'll be doing during my next college semester. I've also applied for my required Visas, India and China, which have all been approved so I'm pretty much set to go with all the paperwork, it's just a matter of making sure I have everything on my extremely long packing list that I just started (which I'll post at a later date). It's so crazy to think that in less than 60 days I'll be boarding a ship off the coast of Mexico that is going to take me around the world. For now, I'm trying my hardest to not checkout of this semester too soon and finish strong before I pack up and head out on the voyage of a life time. So I guess I'll just leave it at that.
See you in 60 days!
