Semester at Sea came to Cape Town a couple weeks ago and they invited the Amy Biehl Foundation to go and visit them at their cruise ship, it was very interesting because we got to see how these college students live in this ship, we got to talk to a professor there about the program and how it is like.
The students study while they ate travelling in high seas but once they dock they can do whatever they want, they can interact with the community, they can go on a safari (for example) and they don't have to go to classes. They are always important people that serve as Distinguished Lecturers and this spring Nobel Peace Prize Winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu is serving as “Distinguished Lecturer in Residence” for the Semester at Sea program. He is almost as important as Nelson Mandela for the fight for freedom in South Africa. I didn't get to meet him because he was not in the ship when we went.
The ship docks at San Juan, Puerto Rico; Salvador, Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; Port Louis, Mauritius; Chennai, India; Penang, Malaysia; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Hong Kong; Qingdao, China; Kobe, Japan; and Honolulu, Hawaii.
I think it is a great idea that students get this opportunity, although maybe I will not do it unless I really liked the people I was travelling with, because you are stuck with them for so long on a ship that it might be awful if you don't really like them! They are 700 students in the ship and it is very amazing, they have a library, computer lab, store, bar, 2 cafeterias.. pretty well equipped!
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