Dear Friends,

I would never have believed that traveling round the world at about 20 miles an hour would in fact be such an engrossing and an enriching experience. You had seemed the best recipe for being bored to hell and back.

Wow! Am I glad that Leah and I were invited to participate in this the 92nd ISE voyage. We could not have chosen better shipmates. The ship and the crew were superb. The catering and household staff was out of this world, so friendly, charming and efficient. The faculty and staff were both outstanding, and a warm applause is due to both Dean Larry and Dean Michael. The life long learners were great fun. But I ask the students to take a special bow. They have been super. What a gift to our world, with their enthusiasm, idealism and energy and sense of fun. Who can forget Ryder and all the other dependent children who made such splendid pirates?

We had an unforgettable and deeply moving Easter sunrise service, which culminated in Holy Communion in a very full union. We then filed out in silence each dropping a carnation into the ocean afterwards. A more somber occasion was when an overflowing union saw out memorial service for those who had died or were injured or bereaved in the Virginia Tech campus massacre. Many of us were shaken.

Leah and I visited many countries we had never been to before, and we are so more aware of the glorious diversity that goes to make up our human family. We have become even more aware of the staggering disparities in wealth and are reinforced in our view that we have no hope of winning wars against terror as long as there remain conditions that make many of our sisters and brothers desperate. We really can be human only together; we can be safe and secure only together; we can be prosperous ultimately only together. We are made so aware that we inhabit a global village you can circumnavigate at 20 mph in 100 days and you could not have done it better than through Semester at Sea.

Thank you our fellow voyagers and all others who made it possible.

God bless you.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

- Lao-Tzu

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The sun had wrinkled the skin of the old. White hair contrasted dark skin. They watched silently as I walked by and it gave me the impression they were wise to the world, or weary of it. It’s almost as if they kept secrets of life hidden within their minds

-Elisa Hidalgo (S'07)

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. - Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. - Saint Augustine

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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

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Part of the urge to explore is a desire to become lost. - Tracy Johnston

When traveling, there is no such thing as bad experiences, only good stories. - Scott Cameron

There are no short cuts to any place worth going. - Beverly SillsThe greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but we must not just drift or lie at anchor. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every so often, let your spirit of adventure triumph over your good sense. WORK as if you don’t need the money, LOVE as if you’ve never been hurt, and DANCE as if nobody is watching!I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. -Susan SontagMiracles happen to those who believe in them. – Bernard Berenson

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards -Vernon Law

Part of my soul went with him. - Winnie Mandela

You don’t travel like this to have a holiday. You travel like this to have a confrontation with yourself. If you haven’t traveled, I mean REALLY immersed yourself in it, you’re a slave to your preconceptions. You see what you believe if you have traveled. You learn to believe what you see. - Bert Van Hemingen The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they used to acquire it!

If I know a song of Africa – I thought – of the giraffe, and the African new moon lying

on her back, or the plows in the fields,

and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a

song of me?-Isak Dinesen

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~ Socially Moving ~ The walls of segregation have fallenAnd left a world of separation instead

The evidence of poverty, presence of the poorLay hidden behind every corner, every door

We were shownWhat we wanted to seePresented with a truth

That we wanted to believeBut the reality is behind the mask

Faced in a country weighed down by stats1 in 9 people have AIDS

Most kids won’t live past a certain ageThe numbers add up, in a country held upEven the youngest visitors need to grow up

And see behind the façadeUnderstand that there are still many problems going onWhether you’re trapped in a township, or living in luxury

You need to take action, and battle povertyAnd if you’re just visiting, and you’re here for the sights

Bungee off a bridge, see some animals at nightBe conscious of your responsibilityTo not be blinded by ethnocentricity

Dig deep, in the streetsFind the people that need to eatAnd find a way to feed them

Understand that here, and everywhere,We still really need them

A mind is a terrible thing to wasteDon’t let us be blinded by the mask of race

-Shaan Coelho (S'07)

Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer’s paradise, a hunter’s Valhalla, an escapist’s utopia. -Beryl MarkhamRisk is moving beyond your previously accepted limits.

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Don’t let school get in the way of your education. - Mark Twain Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished. - Nelson Mandela

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton

In the South African bush two small groups of friends meet on the road. Both are inebriated with the new sights, sounds, textures, and sensations flowing through their mind. Some are scared, but all are curious. The sow hardly looks at us as Hailey hardly looks at the warthogs. But for 7 -10 warthogs and for eight college stu-dents, as different as this experience is, it is

incredibly like looking into a mirror.

Looking at another naive, but courageous, gen-eration of beings about to be

brushed out of the burrow and left to their own devices to make it in a jungle (urban or African), to compete against lions, tycoons, and the like.

- Paul Travis Lathrop (S'07)

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As long as we’re traveling toward the unknown, we’re on the right track. -Rory NugentYour attitude almost always determines your altitude in life.

Standing tall with a stony grinMy AdversaryToday he will be conqueredHis legs stretched and strewn with brush and pebblesI will press forwardUpon your lap rests gnarled treesand broken pieces of your broad shouldersToday I will match you play by playYour belly is hard and flatwith many a ridge defining your powerful strengthToday your abs are bested by my thighs and armsUpon your shoulders you givefalse hope of an easy summitYour trickery does not fool me!At your head your final grin shall smileYes, your face is magnificentYes, your hair is steep and tangledAnd your eyes are challenging and meanPlace high your finest wallsGive me your strongest defenseBecause my fight has not yet finishedAt the crown of your glorydo you feel me triumphantly treading?My feet stomp sure and true atop your headYour wailing cries of defeat are heardThey sailing through the windthat cools my sweat beaded browToday you will remember for all eternitythat I was the strongerToday you will never forget that I became the mountainToday I proved my worth against your ancient cliffsIf not for your taunting pride I wouldnever have risen to this vertical battleI could not have done it without your weakening conceitThank you for this flaw, you stony faced bully! - Sarah Webb (S'07)

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There is nothing so strange in a strange land than those who visit it. -Dennis O’Rourke

"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"India, it changes, it breathes, moving thru your soul impassioning you to act"... - Sarah Webb (S'07)

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To see a world in a Grain of Sand,And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,And eternity in an hour. - William Blake

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I asked a man suffering from'Elephantitis' if he lived in constant pain...He responded by saying, “My feet are a gift from God." Outcast by society and living on the floor of a train station, he was able to find good in what I could only see as mis-fortune and illness. India is both an illness and a curing drug. It is sick with poverty and pollution, but rich with culture and human spirit. It is one’s willingness to accept the drug that will determine their perception of India.

- Logan Koffler (S'07)

Fantastic! Fantastic! Exhilarating! To discover that, HEY, we have an incredible capacity for good, that we are in fact programmed for goodness. That you and I are those who were made for laughter, for joy, for compassion, for caring. That is what you and I are made for.

...Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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I can’t tell you what India has taught me.

I’ve felt emotions at a level I didn’t think

was possible. I’ll never be able to tell you

just how happy I was at some points...watching

Indian girls dance in colorful saris, sitting on

the sleeper train back to Chennai from Erode,

walking through the village at dusk. I can’t tell

you how sad I was at some points...the thin baby

being held in thin arms in a dark & dirty train

station, a gauze sling on her skinny little arm.

Babies are not supposed to be skinny or injured.

Who was I six days ago? I was a person

waiting to be changed. I am now burdened by

what I know and set free from what I was.

You can’t be on this voyage without being on a

desperate search. Who am I and where can I

find myself? - I found myself in India.

- Natalie Kiwan (S'07)

The first condition of right thought is the right sensation – the first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it . – T.S. Eliot

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. - Buddha

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. -R.W. Emerson

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I leaned over the table. “Do you want to draw with me?” I asked in the happiest voice I could

muster. He smiled. I took it as a yes and handed him an uncapped, purple marker. Neither of

us moved. “Okay, I'll go first.” I began with a star, a sun, a smiley face. He just stared at

me from across the table, watching the marker as it slid across

the page. Then, I drew a heart. Slowly, it was as if something

between us shifted. The boy across the table with the blank stare

slowly lifted his arm and placed his marker on the paper. I

steadied it with my hand and he carefully drew – his eyes

shooting back and forth from my design to his own – a purple

heart beside my orange one. I looked up at him and smiled,

congratulating his artistry. I sighed, partly because the threshold

of awkwardness had finally been passed and partly because I

was beginning to feel something for this boy. It was obvious that

it had taken all the concentration he could muster, as well as

the strength of his entire arm, but that one motion began an

hour of Simon-Says drawing. - Leigh Remizowski (S'07)

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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

- Mark Twain

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It has been said, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes,

but in having new eyes." – From the townships of South Africa to the battlefields of Cam-

bodia, from The Taj Mahal, to The Great Wall of China, we have each been given new

eyes. Some see only darkness and are saddened by the injustice, while others have seen

daylight breaking through illuminating hope for a better future. - Sheryl Schmidt (S'07)

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Curiosity is the key to creativity. – Akio Morita

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. – Johnny Carson

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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow at hand. - Confucius

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There is a certain mystic quality I have found in all mountains -a certain urge for silence. They are awe inspiring both for sheer size and their amazing permanence in the face of a constantly changing world. How many times had I stared in wonder, pulling into a port, to see a sprawling city with ancient mountains looming behind the steel and glass of skyscrapers? Only once in Hong Kong did I see a skyscraper signifi-cantly taller than a mountain and it seemed the wrong order of things. Its height seemed strangely precarious as if the building itself knew that in a century or so it may be demolished into dust- no more significant than the life of a pesky mosquito to that ancient giant in the background. And in front of me was a real treasure trove- a bastion of mountains untouched, save for the wall which in color and form was well suited to the surroundings. A neutral color stone, the incline and descent of The Great Wall emulated the slope of the mountains. The lookout towers seemed simply an artful extension of mountain peaks. The Great Wall did not try to outshine the mountain in the haughty way a shiny new skyscraper does- it was not shiny or colorful in hopes of drawing atten-tion to itself- but rather bowed to the wisdom of the mountain, hoping to learn from it a lesson in eternity. My climbing it some thousands of years later testified to its successful study.

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You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. - Walter C. Hagen

Only those who partake in the harmony within their souls know the harmony that runs through nature. - Tao Te Ching

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Appreciate the present hour…sit and hear your own breathing and look out on the universe and be content. - Lin Yutang

"Deta-toko shobu" - To gamble as the dice fall. - Japanese Proverb

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I call architecture a kind of petrified music. - Goethe

If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade. - T. Peters

It takes a long time to become young. - Pablo Picasso

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The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'. - Phillip Lopate Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom. - Jolene Blalock

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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. - Leigh Hunt

When the student is ready, the teacher will come!

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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. -Maya Angelou

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles. - Tim Cahill

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Congratulations to everyone for graduating fake school! I am so proud of all of you. We did it. We graduated fake school! We are graduating from a place where our teachers live under the same roof as us, and where map skills are some of the most sought after skills to have. You know it's fake school when your alarm clock on test days, is the dean over a loud speaker. You also know it's fake when you have more days of vacation than you do of actual school. Fake school is when they force you to go on vacation like every other week, drop you off, and then pick you up again. Oh yeah…and in case you forgot, our school floats on the ocean. Fake school is when the address changes from week to week and when you try and describe to someone where you go to school, it takes like 10 minutes for them to actually comprehend it, and even then they usually don't believe you. That is fake school. Yes, we went to fake school, but nothing about our experience was fake. Nothing about mak-ing deep lasting connections with our teachers is fake - that is real. The countries we learned about with our map skills weren’t fake. Just think about the amazing experiences we had while we were ‘on vacation’ - The smells in India, the crowds in China, the orphans in Cambodia...everything we’ve experienced IS real. It exists. It happened. School may have seemed fake, but our learning and education far surpassed anything we could have achieved back at our home institutions. That is real.

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A Special Thanks is due to Alex Malotte and Erin Merchant, without whom I would have never been able to pull this thing off. I would also like to thank my beautiful wife Theresa for her support and encouragement, and for dealing with my insane work hours. Thanks babe!

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There’s a story they tell of a farmer who had a chicken in his backyard, ordinary chicken, but a strange-looking chicken. It looked like the other chickens, but it didn’t look quite like other chickens. And the farmer was a little puzzled. And then, a traveler came by who knew about these things. And he came, and the farmer took him around, and he looked at the chickens, and he saw this one. And he said, “No, no, that’s no chicken, man, that’s an eagle”. And the farmer said “What? It’s like other chickens.” So the man said “Give it to me”. The farmer gives him this strange-looking chicken, and the man takes it, and

he waits until very early in the morning, and he climbs a mountain. And when he gets to the top, and the sun

is rising, he turns this strange-looking chicken towards the rising sun and he says “Fly, eagle, fly”. And this strange-looking chicken

shakes itself, spreads out its pinions, and lifts off. And it glides and soars and flies toward the rising sun and

disappears. Well, God says to us, “Hey, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly!” And God expects you, me, I, all of us, to

shake ourselves, spread out our wings, and lift off, and we soar. And we soar towards goodness, laughter, compassion, gentleness,

because you see, you and I are made for goodness. You and I are

made for transcendence. You and I are made as those who have to transform this

world... and God says “Fly, eagle, fly!”

- Archbishop Desmond Tutu