I brought a separate external hard drive just for media and I was so happy that I did because by the end of the voyage, I had almost GBs of media from my fellow voyagers, including 7 seasons of GoT, all of the Harry Potter movies and 7 seasons of Modern Family.
As a content creator, I am pretty systematic about backing up my files but it is a best practice that everyone should do.
I would gradually organize my files in the days after leaving a port, but I always made sure there was a back up as quickly as possible. They lost hundreds if not thousands of photos from their voyage which are not always easily replaced. This is a once in a lifetime experience and your photos are part of your memories from the voyage.
Make sure to protect them. Both of these messenger apps work pretty well on the ship Internet and are one of the best ways to communicate at sea, but also in port. Prior to leaving, make sure you are connected with family and friends back home via one of these two messaging apps. A majority of SAS students have an iPhone, so AirDrop is one of the most popular ways that people share their photos and videos with one another during the voyage.
On nearly every field class or field program that I went on, people would turn on their airdrop on the bus ride back to share media. It works really well. Name your AirDrop something easy or clever prior to starting the voyage so that it is easy people for people to find your AirDrop there are like 10 MyiPhones that will show up.
This is the internal email service that Semester at Sea uses and it will be your primary means of communication within the shipboard community. Everyone gets a SeaMail and you will set up your SeaMail account prior to embarkation. The instructions typically come from ISE a few weeks before you board.
I saw a lot of people put it in their Instagram bio. You can also set up forwarding services from Gmail and other email accounts so that your home email gets sent directly to SeaMail so you can check it.
This is essentially your daily newsletter of everything that happens on the ship. Get in the habit of reading this early in the voyage so that you know all the awesome stuff that is happening each day. There will be notes about events, evening seminars, student club meet ups, etc so that you can plan your days accordingly. Voyagers will write to the Rumor Ranger asking a variety of questions regarding rumors, ranging from ghost stories to peanut butter shortages, and more.
In most of the ports, the ship provides postage service so that you can send post cards directly from the ship. This is such a handy service and postcards are a nice momento for folks back home! It is important to keep in contact with your family and friends back home. There are plenty of students who used people back home as an emotional crutch which can make it harder to build new relationships or stay totally present in your experience to the point where it negatively impacts their time on the ship.
I think a good rule of thumb is to check in with loved ones once per port, once per crossing. I would usually talk to people on either the first or last day in port, and once midway through an ocean crossing if internet allowed for it. Living on a ship is a totally different experience than life at home, and the process of adjusting can take days or weeks.
Meal times, exercise times, social times, all of it will be different. You will be meeting an entirely new network of people and forging new friends happens quickly for some people and slowly for others.
Be patient with yourself as you get into your new routine and develop your new friends. But getting into the swing of things does take some time and adjustment, so give yourself some grace as you figure out what works best for you.
So much of the Semester at Sea experience is about observation. But realllllly looking. Experiential learning is being out there in the thick of things and experiencing them firsthand through sight, touch, sound and taste.
Your eyes will truly be opened and it is one of the best parts about SAS. Having done two voyages now, I can guarantee that this program will change your life.
There will be big changes for some people and small changes for others, but there will be changes for everyone. You will feel the shift happening within the shipboard community as people learn and unlearn important lessons, but most of the reflecting and processing of your experience will happen after you get home. You will also notice a lot of your changes through the eyes of other people when you return home and they notice differences in you.
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Most voyages only spend around days in Vietnam but, since SP20 was a little different, we were there for Your cost for Vietnam should be about half of this if you want to see specific hotels, airlines, and companies click here! Missed port 2: Since I already had everything booked, here is was I estimated. This port was a little different from the rest since the port city was about an hour away from the main city center. In this situation I would recommend doing field programs because you will save money on the shuttles!
Originally, we were only supposed to be docked in Mauritius for 1 day to refuel. With such a short stop, SAS required everyone to participate in a field program if they wished to disembark for the day just like Hawaii. Missed port 4: I had not done any planning for South Africa since my family was supposed to be there with me for the week. Between safaris and adventure tours, South Africa is on the more expensive side and will be one of your biggest ports.
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