101st of 101st

Today is the 101^st day of the 101^st voyage for Semester at Sea.  As of tomorrow, I will be within my final week living on the ship.  Wow. Definitely bitter sweet.

 

“It’s where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.”

                    -Joyce Carol Oates

Amen. One can learn so so much about themselves after experiencing a trip like this. It is not only the experience of visiting places that impacts your life, but it is what you choose to do with the opportunities available to you. Many times during this trip we have been put in situations which are completely different and sometimes uncomfortable from what we are used to. The decisions we make in those situations reflect on who we are as a person.  I have learned so much about myself in the past 15 weeks.  I know who I am.  I have seen the world, and the world has changed me.