Wed August 29th
As usual
with a Semester at Sea voyage, time is flying by so far! The community is off to a good start, I’m
really enjoying the students, faculty, staff, crew, and officers, and I love
the student life staff—they are a great, brilliant, hard-working bunch of good
folks.
As I am
writing this, we’ve been having some really big swells. I am sitting in my office in a roll-y chair,
and I pretty much just crashed into Chris, my assistant dean of students, and
knocked her off her chair— “I’m coming your way!” is now the quote of the
morning. The past couple of days have
been really swell-y. I slept last night
in what I like to call my Michael Jordan pose—legs wide to brace against side
to side and with one arm above my head sort of bracing against the wall. I have also taken full advantage of the hold
bars in the shower. What I’ve taken the
most pictures of so far is the ocean—as much as I’ve been spending time with
fantastic people, I feel like it’s been my constant companion, and I continue
to be in awe of its moods, its power, and its poetry.
In no
particular order, some other highlights—shopping for art supplies in Halifax
with Darlene (one of the professors) and Randy (the Assistant Executive Dean),
seeing a whale swim by at dinner, stopping to watch the moon peek out from
behind the clouds and paying respect to Neil Armstrong next to Kathy Thornton,
next fall’s academic dean and an astronaut herself, and getting a gift of yummy
snacks for the first Atlantic crossing from my friend Debbie.
In Galway, I
will be travelling overland to Dublin with several friends. We will be stopping in the lovely town of
Dingle. Will post again soon!
