Day 100. It's Day OneHundred.

Rewind.

We're at Day One Hundred!?

UNBELIEVABLE. If you would have asked me before the voyage, or when I boarded the ship in Nassau if we would ever get to Day 100, I never would have believed you. And yet, we're here.

Coinciding with Day 100, tomorrow we arrive at our LAST port-of-call: Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala. We're all so excited for this last port, and we have spent the entire week both rounding out our academics and prepping for Guat. Tonight, we had our last logistical pre-port with Luke, Les and Reg, and it was a really bittersweet time. We've looked forward to pre-ports before arrival in each location, and we remember them quite well... some of the best moments from the voyage have happened with all of us around the union for pre-port. I can't believe the last one is finally behind us!

In other news, I met with Marjorie, one of the lifelong learners to do a end-of-the-voyage interview. She had interviewed me before the voyage to get a feel of what I was expecting, and now talked to me about what had hpapened over the past few months. One of the craziest things that I realized was the word association drill she did with me. Before leaving (via skype between Baltimore and her in Colorado), she had read off each of the ports of call and asked me to describe them in 5 words. Before we left on the voyage, I could barely get through 1 or 2 words for each country. When she asked about mauritius, the only word I could come up with was "island."

Now, after the voyage, she repeated the exercise, and I found words freely flowing out of my mouth for each of the countries we have stopped in. They really are "real" places, now. We talked a lot about her experiences, and her time with re-entry at the end of her 3 voyages. It was a great conversation.


I also took my Biomedical Ethics final today and turned in my final portfolio of writing for my Media Studies class. Also... brace yourself... I got an A in Global Studies class!! I was way way overjoyed, and extremely surprised. It was quite a nice surprise.




Really, though, it's a weird feeling knowing that tomorrow we'll be on our last approach to a port-of-call. Guatemala promises to be a very different experience than any of our other countries, and our only port called on in the Americas. I'm very excited, and am gonna hit the sack so I can wake up early tomorrow, see us come in, and welcome the American Diplomats on board for our last Diplomatic Briefing.

Alrighty... good night from off the coast of "The Guat"

Greg