SAS Presentation

Friday January 21, 2011 Evergreen and I will be giving a presentation on our Semester at Sea Voyage.  Anyone who would like to attend is more than welcome.  Before the presentation there will be a fund raising dinner for the youth group starting at 6:00 pm, so I estimate that we will start the slides at 7 -7:30.  This will all be held at the Norris Religious Fellowship located at 23 Dogwood Rd.  Google knows where it is but I wouldn't trust all of its directions.  Thanks everyone for your interest in my voyage, I hope you enjoyed reading about it, and I hope I didn't ramble too much. 
Thanks
Jocelyn Borgers

Last Day on the Ship

Today was the last day on the ship.  Everyone has managed to stuff everything into the many bags they have brought with them or bought along the way.  Tomorrow we arrive in San Diego and have to go through customs.  Everyone is scrambling around getting people to sign things and sharing videos and pictures and just hanging out for the last time on the ship.  It's a bitter sweet moment.  We are all so excited to go home but really sad to leave our ship community and all the friends we have made.  We stayed up really late last night hanging out playing cards and packing.  Today we all dragged our suitcases to designated areas so they can be taken off the ship for us.  If they didn't do this I don't think that I would ever make it off the ship because I have so much stuff.  I will try to get some sleep tonight so I am wide awake tomorrow (standing in line is hard work). 

Hawaii

The first day in Hawaii I went with some of my friends to Diamond Head.  We hiked up to the top where an old fort was.  It was really windy and so not too hot at all.  The view was amazing.  after getting back down we got shave ice.  We caught the bus to Perl Harbor but it was really late by the time we got there so we only got to go in the submarine and the museum.  That night we ate at a Japanese restaurant before walking around Honolulu.  While walking around we ran across a "First Fridays" concert.  We stayed and listened to a really good ukulele player and ate fresh homemade Popsicle that we bought at a stand.  Mine was banana cream pie, yum! 

Day 2 in Honolulu we took a bus and a taxi to Honuma Bay where we snorkeled in the coral.  I got a sunburn that day but it was well worth it.  That night on the ship we sailed to Hilo. 

The first day in Hilo Jen, Laura, and I went to Rainbow falls which was really neat but what I like the best was the giant tree beside it.  This tree was amazing it was like thousands of tiny trees bunched together as one giant tree.  We spent a while climbing in it.  After that we walked to the downtown where we ate lunch and looked at all the little shops.  We called a taxi and went back to the ship where the three of us got ready to go to the lu'au.  The lu'au was at the University of Hawaii in Hilo.  The cultural club put it on for us.  It was not like the normal tourist lu'au that everyone thinks of but it was still neat.  We learned how to make lei's and saw some hula dancing and ate Hawaiian food.  After getting back to the ship we decided to go to the mall to see a movie.  We saw Tangled in 3D and I must say that I highly recommend it. 

The last day in Hawaii eight of us rented a car so we could drive to Volcano National Park.  We bought lunch to take with us and had a good day at the park.  On our way back to Hilo we stopped by Rainbow falls again for those who hadn't seen it yet.  Evergreen agreed with me that the falls were cool but the tree was really the highlight. 

Now we are back at sea.  I have 2 finals tomorrow and one the day after then I will be done!  Today the ship is really rocking even though it is so sunny and pleasant outside. 

San Diego in 4 days, Home in 5.  It has all gone by so fast.