Just a quick blog to reflect the time from France to
Ireland. Sunsets and sunrises are a
feature of sailing around on a ship.
When we leave a port, we usually crowd around the decks to
wave goodbye and watch the workers untie the ship and see the tugs. The gangway has already been raised. As we pull away the Captain gives a few blows
on the horn that scares the crap out of you if you are standing on the bow.
When we are back on the ship for classes, it’s actually a
nice relief from the traveling on land—a time to reflect and have a continuity
that you have been missing. Students
study and work on their classes. There
are several art classes and they work all over the ship. We sit together on the back deck again for
meals as long as it is not too cold and is not raining. We have had very little rain all trip.
And then the sun set again.
When we awoke the next morning, we were coming into our port
in Dublin, Ireland—another industrial port.
We love watching the industry around the ports. They were loading peat
in containers across from us, and we could watch the containers being loaded.
We then had to spend a class day on the ship before we could
disembark. One class always starts out
with a dance to wake them up. They make
so much noise that I have to close the doors to the Union.
That night after a
pre-port, everyone was anxious to dis-embark the next day to see
Dublin. The faculty and staff made use
of the time to celebrate a birthday in the faculty-staff lounge (The Glazier
Lounge). For some reason, I had bought
some balloons back in the summer and had thrown them in to bring on the
ship. Who knew they would have been such
a hit?
Then Vijay, our Indian bar tender, taught us some Bollywood moves on the dance
floor. A good time and everyone slept
well that night.
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