We Are Here

The library is home to the most popular computer on the ship. The "You Are Here" computer sits on the edge of the library desk. It is hooked up to a tiny GPS unit that sits in the window of the library and shows our location as we travel across the ocean. It had a hardware failure right as we were leaving Hawaii and was much missed. Now that we have it up and running again, it is once more a very popular feature. The picture below is of some of the Unreasonable Institute participants taking a photo of the YAH screen after we got it running again.

With one more day and night of sailing until we reach Yokohama, Japan tomorrow, we are all pretty ready to get into port. The seas continue to be very rough today, with salt spray splashing the library windows (we are on the 6th deck). The higher you go on the ship, the more you feel the motion. Down on decks 2 and 3, it feels a lot calmer.

I'll fit in one more library work study profile before we reach port tomorrow. Meet Elizabeth!

Elizabeth is from Colorado and attends the University of Michigan. She is majoring in industrial and operations engineering, with an international minor. Back at Michigan, she has taken a class in engineering across cultures, and is pleased that the non-western cultures classes she is taking during Semester at Sea will count toward her minor.

Her favorite thing about Semester at Sea so far is that she is constantly meeting new people. She really likes that it is an expected thing to sit down with new people and introduce yourself. She also likes the 25 hour days we've been having.

Her least favorite part of the voyage so far has been trying to read without falling asleep. Like many people, the effects of the rolling seas on her only result in sleepiness, not queasiness. Lucky Elizabeth!

Elizabeth is keeping a blog at http://elizabetholinblog.wordpress.com/ which she updates by emailing posts to her sister back in the US, who then posts to the blog. It is possible to email posts directly to the blog (that's how I've been doing it), but Elizabeth gets the added bonus of another set of eyes correcting spelling and punctuation first.