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 I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
world, or weary of it. It’s almost as
if
they
kept
secrets
hidden within their minds
of
life
-Elisa Hidalgo (S'07)
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
- Saint Augustine
We are all inventors, each sailing
out
on
a
of
which
voyage
of
discovery,
guided each by a private chart, The
there
world
opportunities.
is
is
all
no
duplicate.
gates,
all
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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When traveling, there is no such thing as bad experiences, only good stories.
The 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
There are no short cuts to any place worth going.
- Beverly Sills
Part of the urge to explore is a desire to become lost.
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- Scott Cameron
- Tracy Johnston
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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– Bernard Berenson
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
-Susan Sontag
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!
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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
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.
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- Bert Van Hemingen
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards -Vernon Law
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they used to acquire it!
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~ Socially Moving ~
Risk is moving beyond your previously accepted limits.
The walls of segregation have fallen And left a world of separation instead The evidence of poverty, presence of the poor Lay hidden behind every corner, every door We were shown What we wanted to see Presented with a truth That we wanted to believe But the reality is behind the mask Faced in a country weighed down by stats 1 in 9 people have AIDS Most kids won’t live past a certain age The numbers add up, in a country held up Even the youngest visitors need to grow up And see behind the façade Understand that there are still many problems going on Whether you’re trapped in a township, or living in luxury You need to take action, and battle poverty And if you’re just visiting, and you’re here for the sights Bungee off a bridge, see some animals at night Be conscious of your responsibility To not be blinded by ethnocentricity Dig deep, in the streets Find the people that need to eat And find a way to feed them Understand that here, and everywhere, We still really need them A mind is a terrible thing to waste Don’t let us be blinded by the mask of race
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 Markham
-Shaan Coelho (S'07)
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In the South African bush two
brushed out of the burrow and left
the road. Both are inebriated with
jungle (urban or African), to compete
small groups of friends meet on
the new sights, sounds, textures,
and sensations flowing through their
mind. Some are scared, but all are
to their own devices to make it in a against lions, tycoons, and the like.
- Paul Travis Lathrop (S'07)
curious. The sow hardly looks at
us as Hailey hardly looks at the
warthogs. But for 7 -10 warthogs and for eight college students, as different as
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton
this experience is, it is incredibly like
looking into a mirror.
Looking at another
naive, but courageous, gen-
eration of beings about to be Don’t let school get in the way of your education.
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- Mark Twain
Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
- Nelson Mandela
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Standing tall with a stony grin My Adversary
Today he will be conquered
His legs stretched and strewn with brush and pebbles I will press forward
Upon your lap rests gnarled trees
and broken pieces of your broad shoulders Today I will match you play by play Your belly is hard and flat
with many a ridge defining your powerful strength
Today your abs are bested by my thighs and arms Upon your shoulders you give
false hope of an easy summit
Your attitude almost always determines your altitude in life.
As long as we’re traveling toward the unknown, we’re on the right track.
-Rory Nugent
Your trickery does not fool me!
At your head your final grin shall smile Yes, your face is magnificent
Yes, your hair is steep and tangled
And your eyes are challenging and mean Place high your finest walls
Give me your strongest defense
Because my fight has not yet finished At the crown of your glory
do you feel me triumphantly treading?
My feet stomp sure and true atop your head Your wailing cries of defeat are heard They sailing through the wind
that cools my sweat beaded brow
Today you will remember for all eternity that I was the stronger
Today you will never forget that I became the mountain Today I proved my worth against your ancient cliffs If not for your taunting pride I would never have risen to this vertical battle
I could not have done it without your weakening conceit Thank you for this flaw, you stony faced bully!
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- Sarah Webb (S'07)
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"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
There is nothing so strange in a strange land than those who visit it.
-Dennis O’Rourke
"India, it changes, it breathes, moving thru your soul impassioning you to act"...
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- Sarah Webb (S'07)
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ned
Enthusiasm is the optimism that fuels life.
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I asked a man suffering from
'Elephantitis'
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
pain...He
if
he
responded
lived by
in
constant
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)
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I can’t tell you what India has taught me. I’ve was
felt
emotions
possible.
I’ll
at
a
never
level be
I
able
didn’t to
tell
think 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 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
find myself? - I found myself in India. - Natalie Kiwan (S'07)
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
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- 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.
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-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
steadied it with my hand and he
carefully
shooting back and forth from my
design to his own – a purple
heart
looked up at him and smiled,
beside
my
orange
one.
on drew
–
his
I
eyes
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
but that one motion began an
of
his
entire
arm,
the
paper.
partly
strength
because
the
congratulating his artistry. I sighed,
hour of Simon-Says drawing.
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marker
threshold
- 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
Broad,
on
these
wholesome,
accounts.
charitable
views of men and things cannot be
acquired
by
vegetating
in
one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
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- 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 Cambodia, 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.
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- Sheryl Schmidt (S'07)
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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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– Johnny Carson
– Akio Morita
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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow at hand.
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- Confucius
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There
is
a
certain mystic quality I
have found in all mountains a
certain
awe
urge
inspiring
for
both
silence.
for
They
sheer
size
are
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.
- Tina Peabody (S'07)
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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.
Only those who partake in the harmony within their souls know the harmony that runs through nature.
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- Walter C. Hagen
- 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.
"Deta-toko shobu" - To gamble as the dice fall.
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- Lin Yutang
- Japanese Proverb
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It takes a long time to become young.
- Pablo Picasso
I call architecture a kind of petrified music.
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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- Goethe
- T. Peters
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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'.
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- 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.
A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.
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-Maya Angelou
- 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,
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,
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School may have seemed fake, but our learning and education far surpassed anything
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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