As the days near before this departure of yet another "voyage of discovery" my anticipation heightens. I am eager to see what this experience will provide for the now 23 year old me. The significance of this blog is more for my personal process than anything else, although I appreciate all of you who have decided, at least for the mean time, that this is worth your while to read. My hope is that with this blog, I will spend more time processing my experiences and subsequent emotions... As many of you know, I have been fortunate enough to have had this experience before and envision this one being even more impactful than the previous two. That said, I am doing my darndest to keep my expectations to a minimum. Having done Semester at Sea twice its somewhat challenging to consider a new role for myself on the ship, as an actual college student. School! yikes.
Dad has posted a hourly countdown to our departure on the fridge, as if the tension isn't running high enough in the house already. With Michael (my youngest brother, still in high school) trying to wrap things up with his teachers, taking finals, and starting his online running start courses, to my mom, Ann, wrapping up her medical practice and handing it over to the woman who will be covering for her while we are away, to dad Dale who is frantically trying to find work for his three employees to carry on the Hoff Construction name while he is away (this is proving to be a bit of a challenge in this suffering economy)...I assure you we will all be much happier campers when we are out of the house and on our way to SeaTac. Then there is Peter and I, who are just passing the time until we leave. Peter and I are both done with Fall Quarter at our respective colleges and now just in limbo until we take off. We are doing our best to step up and help around the house by recognizing things that need to be done, running errands and tutoring Michael through this final week. But the frenzy of the other three still seems to be cramping our laid back, playful lifestyle we've grown to know in these past few weeks.
But if dad's countdown is correct, we just have 41hours of this chaos left.
Stay tuned for more exciting adventures...for the meantime, I'm off.
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I just learned from Margaret's FaceBook post that you were taking this "cruise"!!! I will follow it with interest. It is of course an amazing thing for a family to break away from the normal pace of life and to do a cruise together. That is "amazing" !!!!
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