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Voyage Blog: Fall 2013

50th Anniversary Voyage Sea Olympics!

These are the games that test the skill, savvy, speed and strength of men and women, boys and girls. These are the SAS Sea Olympics. With their war paint applied […]
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Inspires SAS Voyagers Young and Old

Just hours before leaving South Africa, the Fall 2013 voyage’s shipboard community received a special guest speaker: Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Long a friend, and staunch supporter, of Semester at Sea, […]
Pencils of Promise: An Education for Every Child

Andrew Gray, a junior from Oklahoma State University, has an infectious passion for bettering childhood education throughout the developing world. For the past four years he has been channeling that […]
Student Photo Gallery: Ghana

Akwaaba! The ships time in Ghana allowed students to get a deeper sense of Africa as students explored the history, nature, food, music, and pace of this welcoming country. Below […]
Postcard from Ghana: A Child's Perspective

There are 22 dependent children on board the MV Explorer for the Fall 2013, 50th anniversary voyage. They are the sons and daughters of faculty and staff members and a […]
Pinky Nelson: Conversations with an Astronaut

This semester the shipboard community was pleasantly surprised to find out that not only would they be sailing around the Atlantic, but they would be doing so with two former […]
Extended Families Make a Ship Feel More Like Home

With nearly 800 students, lifelong learners (LLLs), faculty and staff on the Fall 2013 voyage it may surprise some to know that many students (and even some faculty, staff and […]
Global Mamas is Changing Women's Lives in Ghana

Global Mamas is a non-profit and fair trade organization that helps women in Africa to become economically independent through the production and sales of their traditional handicraft. As part of […]
SAS Alum Cliff Roberts Visits the MV Explorer to Give Career Advice to Fall 2013 Students

Cliff Roberts, an agent with the William Morris Endeavor agency in Hollywood and a SAS legacy voyager and alum, took some time out of his schedule (in the middle of […]
Legacy Voyagers: The SAS Tradition Continues with each Generation

The Voss Family are traditional cattle ranchers from Nebraska who have an affinity for travel. With eight previous voyagers over several generations, and one current student on the Fall 2013 […]
On Semester at Sea, Friends Encourage Each Other to Sail & See the World

A Semester at Sea voyage is an experience best shared. As most students board without knowing their shipmates, sharing memories means making new friends. But some lucky voyagers boarded the […]
Founders Day: Celebrating 50 Years of Shipboard Education

On October 22, 1963, the first voyage of Semester at Sea, then known as the University of Seven Seas, set sail out of New York City on a journey around […]
Fall 2013 Voyagers wear the world for Founders Week

Everyone who leaves their Semester at Sea voyage always wants to take a little piece of it with them. For many of us that’s our SAS voyage gear. They’ve kept […]
Word of Mouth: Stories About the SAS Experience Bring New Voyagers to the MV Explorer

Semester at Sea derives great benefits from word of mouth. Students return home with stories about watching the ceremonies along the Ganges River in India, volunteering at an elementary school […]
Postcard from Morocco: My Exploration in Cooking and Culture

When I signed up for a travel writing class on this voyage, I expected to find a new best friend in my journal, to have my syntax and grammar picked […]