Mamma Mia, here we go again!
My my, how can I resist you?
Mamma mia, does it show again?
My my, just how much I've missed you"
The two of us are sailing again with Semester at Sea and we couldn't be happier!
In the fall of 2006, we first met up with Semester at Sea, a study-abroad program that sails around the world, and we fell in love with the eye-opening combination of education and world travel. This fall, we're sailing on our fifth academic voyage to 11 countries over 107 days with about 500 undergraduate students.
We will spend about half of those 107 days at sea. That's when classes are held and I will be working as the voyage librarian. The other half of those 107 days will be spent in port, exploring countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Mamma mia, librarianship has been very, very good to me.
It's impossible to share the many fun things that happen during a voyage so I'll offer just one highlight from our 2008 voyage that I've been remembering of late. (And it pairs well with the subject of this blog post.) While we were docked in Greece, our shipboard family (the two of us plus our two shipboard daughters) navigated our way to a local theater to see the just-released Mamma Mia!
On every voyage, we're given the opportunity to form a shipboard family with students who opt in and it's added greatly to our experience. We're already looking forward to meeting the newest members of our growing family.
This fall will be our first time to sail on the MV World Odyssey, a 20-year-old cruise ship that is decorated in the 1920s style and still used during the summer months for cruises. Though we will always love the MV Explorer, the previous SAS ship, we're eager to see our fall home in person.
Yours in gratitude to ABBA and Semester at Sea,
Mary Jo
