Myanmar | Feb 18-23, 2018 We landed in Yangon where we immediately went to our hotel and settled in. In the hotel we had dinner at a buffet and settled in to our small beds. The next day we went to a market and I got Aladdin pants and my mom got a top made….
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Sea Olympics | February 16, 2018 During the trip to Burma we had an event on the ship called The Sea Olympics where the seven seas split up and played against each other in mini events: Synchronized Swimming; Ninja; Relay; Tug-o-War; Silent Library; Lip Sync; Basketball; Ping Pong; and a Spirit Competition. Whichever sea won…
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Vietnam | Feb 8-13, 2018 Some time ago we visited a very unique place. That place being Vietnam! I’ll take it from the top… Day 1… The first day we landed In Ho Chi Minh City (also called Saigon). We visited Ben Thanh Market. There we saw some Semester at Sea colleagues (SASer’s). They told…
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Hong Kong | Feb 4-5, 2018 After we landed in Hong Kong we set off to our AMAZING hotel! This is why: We walked in to be greeted by 2 dragons. The front desk showed us their latest invention…The Handy Phone. It was a multilingual phone that was a hotspot, could call 27 countries and…
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Beijing, China | Feb 1- 4, 2018 For the first day of Beijing we got to our hotel late after taking the bullet train from Shanghai. We went to room 1122 to find ourselves in literally the best room they had (thanks to mom ALWAYS travelling and using Hilton hotels). It was AMAZING!!! It had…
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Shanghai, China | Jan 31 – Feb 1, 2018 For the first 1+1/2 days we were in Shanghai, China. The first day I was woken up early to warm pancakes smothered with syrup. I then looked outside to find at least 12 skyscrapers towering over The MV World Odyssey. We soon went to cabin 8041…
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Japan | Jan 24-28, 2018 |Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto On our first day in Japan we arrived in Kobe. We decided to settle in at the Centurion Hotel. For a good amount of time we gathered our bearings. Once we settled in we went on a train to go to a mall in Osaka. We climbed…
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