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2025-02-15 _ Class Afloat – Salsa and Cuban cultural dance moves

Yesterday was an amazing experience. We got to meet and watch professional Cuban dancers. They taught us how to salsa and showed different Cuban cultural dance moves that we presented.…

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2025-02-12 _ Class Afloat – Havana

After six hours of deep ship cleaning the day before, the Alex sailed into Havana yesterday morning looking all spiffy below deck. By the afternoon, floaties finished packing her sails…

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2025-02-08 _ Class Afloat – Sailing around before the soon-to-come Atlantic crossing

Today was just like any other day sailing around. People did a big group presentation in Global Geo and others worked hard at calc all day long. Weather was really…

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2025-02-06_Class Afloat – A pretty typical day on the Alex

February the fifth was a pretty typical day on the Alex – as mundane as life gets when you live and work on a tallship. It was our first day…

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2025-02-05_Class Afloat – Whales and a Rainbow

Yesterday was amazing! We set sail, saw whales, caught a rainbow, and enjoyed a stunning sunset. Then we started cruising along the Dominican coast, heading toward Havana, Cuba. What a…

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2025-01-24 _ Class Afloat – I could smell Johnny Depp

    We got to swim where Johnny Depp swam. I could smell him. I stepped on a crab. I’m so sorry. Don’t wear jeans into the rainforest. You’ll regret…

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2025-01-18 _ Class Afloat – We´re back!

We’re back! After 10 days of semester break, we floaties all came flooding back onto the Alex yesterday afternoon. Because the ship was at anchor, we got to return via…

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2025-01-06 _ Class Afloat – The last day of exams

    The last day of exams, the last day of swim call, the last normal day for five of us… Yesterday was a high-energy day: we finished writing exams…

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2025-01-05 _ Class Afloat – First day of exams yesterday

It was the first day of exams yesterday and it showed. Everyone was giving off all this weird energy. What helped us burn it off was the swim call we…

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2025-01-04 _ Class Afloat – The heist of the year

Yesterday saw the heist of the year perpetrated by none other than Brychan and his Oceans 11 class. The whole class devised an elaborate scheme to steal a high-value item…

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