Faculty and staff orientation began with a reception on Monday in Ft. Lauderdale, a working meeting there the next morning (to prepare for today’s discussions of Jamaica Kincade’s A Small Place and for arrival in the first port for which we’ll be able to prepare students, Dominica), and then a full day on the ship on Wednesday here in Nassau. Most of the students arrived yesterday, bringing an enormous surge of energy. They whooped and hollered through last night’s opening session, though things were more sober through most of the Captain’s comments (on safety) and during reference to the group of passengers who are still lacking one of the required visas and so yet haven’t been able to join the ship—the reason for its delayed departure from Nassau, which is now due for mid-day today. Today is the full day of student orientation—they’ll have meetings from early morning to late afternoon—and classes begin tomorrow.
My family and I managed a couple of hours off the ship yesterday morning: the sea here is an astonishing light blue, and I had a splendid fish stew and a johnnycake for breakfast. Our MV Explorer sits in the water next to enormous pleasure ships from Carnival and Norwegian: their vast water slides on top and glowing casinos below mark their difference from ours, a place meant for learning.
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