Ship life between ports

Classroom for one section of Environmental Psych

Student studying in the library

A personal space exercise in the Union

Classroom for Sustainable Communities

Conversations in the Piano Lounge

I realized that I have not posted much to the blog about life on board ship when we are between ports.  When we are at sea, we have classes every day, including weekends.  In a typical day I will do class prep in the morning and attend the required Global Studies class, and have one or two classes each afternoon.  Often there are seminars and meetings in the evenings about shipboard life and information about upcoming cultures and ports.  We also started a Sustainability Club that meets every other evening at dinner time when we are at sea.  So far the Sustainability Club has sponsored a water conservation program, an evening "Sustainability Summit" to provide information on the ship's environmental performance, and is raising money to plant trees in Kenya to offset some of the carbon from the voyage.  One of our interport lecturers was Cathy Adams, a VP for IBM who is very involved with global sustainability issues.  She has arranged to have 1000 trees planted in honor of the Fall 2010 voyage, and the Sustainability Club is trying to double that number of trees.  Above are some photos of life on board ship, and I will add more later.