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| The Pink LunaSea! |
Hi all~
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| Parade of Banners-amazing creativity! |
Although we have been sailing on the Atlantic for the past 7 days, the days have been full and my job is slowly picking up! We left the Amazon River on January 29th and entered the Atlantic to some rough waters the first night-people got their sea legs pretty quickly and the crossing to Ghana was actually quite calm for the Atlantic!
As mentioned, we had the Olympics on February 3rd and even though this was CRAZY early in the voyage and our faculty/staff team had 2 days to pull it all together, as always, we all had a blast!
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| Dean of Students, Sunny as Lady Gaga! |
I was one of the team Captains and I will say the Faculty and Staff rose to the occassion! We also had the dependents and the Sea Salts decided to have their own team, being they were 65 strong! They were also fantastic and had some great leaders! Thank God we did not try and squeeze Neptune Day in there as well! Here are a few shots of our team and others, including the winning sea~
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| the Red Sea |
THE RED SEA! They really did come from no where and the expected sea, again as always, did not win! The day started out raining but those of us who manefest, did so for the sun to at least come out and allow us to do most of the activities outside, which is did by 1pm!
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| the sea salts sychronized swim~from 68-85! |
I also wanted to show you great new office on board-Tymitz Square, 1st of 2nd chair every afternoon from 1-3ish...because I do not have an office, I decided to be right in the heart of the ship and an easy place to meet people and for folks to be able to find me! We also were able to meet with both groups one more time and finalize all the decorations and start our process of letting folks in on the theme~we are in the process of doing a commercial for the auction and I will be picking up fabric in Ghana.
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| Holding room for 200 slaves for 3 months! |
We arrived in Ghana this morning and the ship took some time to get cleared~Randy, John, Debbie, Dr Laura and her husband Harry were one of the first off ! We walked the 1.5 miles to the end of the pier and found a taxi to take us into town to get money and find a larger van to hire for the day. Being one of the first, we got a bit ripped off for the first taxi ride but then made up for the difference with a great driver (and his aprentice) who drove us down the coast away to CapeCoast Castle (and dungeons) where slave trade to both Europe and US began...it was a humbling and somewhat somber day to see what human being was willing to do to human being and with that prepare ourselvers to bear witness the process the slaves went through before they were shipped off in large boats to the US!
The completely pitch black rooms with only 3 small rays of light was humbling to the end of the process where after 3 months of 200-400 slaves being kept in these dark rooms were taken across a courtyard and boarded through doors of no return.
The combination of the dry heat, long jeans and sun beating down on us, I found myself pretty worn after the hour long "process"...we decided to have lunch right next door, along the ocean, which was beautiful yet disturbing, staring at the Castle. I ended buying a beautiful bowl with 3 locked arm wood scultpture there and made friends with the small shop keeper here...he was such a warm fellow. The Ghanians are so eager to get to know you and so they ask you for your email and they give you theirs. The sad part is that not many will keep in touch, yet I think I will drop Kofi "Chris" Nyen an email along the way!
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| our group plus a student we picked up along the process... |
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| Kofi "Chris" Nyen |
tomorrow, Deb and I head to Accra, the capital city, which is about a 4 hour bus ride, which I am not looking forward to. We will be met by a driver and will go and visit 2 colleges to SAS to connect with. This is part of Deb's position, but she did not want to go alone! We will be there for the night and Randy Sue, John and Barb will meet us the next day to head 2 more hours southeast to a village where we will be bringing shoes to the people. Randy's relative met this man in New York who is from this village and he told us about the fact
his people do not have shoes and socks to wear. So in essence we will be creating our own FDP and possibly a future trip for SASers to go!
I proabably will not have internet access for the next 3 days, so I will write more about our adventures when I return on Thursday!
Until then, enjoy the superbowl this afternoon~we are going to have it satellite broadcasted into the ship-so the internet will be turned off here in about 30 minutes for the night! It should be a fairly full house in the union for an all nighter~perhaps someone will tape it and I will get the results when I return! We leave at 0730 in the morning!
Write more Thursday~worldly heart ro
Authentic Connections~committed to a world where peace, passion and love are present for everyone as they transition gracefully from one chapter of their lives to the next.
"Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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