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Hello to the outside world! Today the exam schedule got released. With that the anticipation of arriving in Barbados continues to rise. There are lots of mixed emotions. People are happy to be able to see their families but also sad because arriving means the departure of some of our…...

Happy New Year! We spent the last day of 2022 having a leisurely departure from Paramaribo, Suriname. Students spent the day studying for their upcoming exams and attending SOCO so that they could debrief about their wonderful trip to the jungle and into the city of Paramaribo. By the time evening approached we…...

On 31 December 2022, the Alexander von Humboldt 2 left Suriname and is now heading to Barbados. All of Class Afloat came together to finish provisioning. A special boat docked along side the ship, that had extra food for provisioning. We then set our sails and began our journey to…...

We’re in the jungle! Yesterday we arrived in Paramaribo to find we couldn’t berth and had to move deeper down the river to Paranam. Expecting to be off ship by 1300, we were all packed and ready for a day out around the city, which mostly would have been at…...

Hinweis eines externen Beobachters: Der ab dem 3.12 2022 vermisste Elf Kraig ist aufgetaucht! Er hatte sich bei auf dem Schiff verlaufen. Um nicht ganz alleine zu sein, hatte er sich mit dem roten Expansionsbehälter angefreundet und war dann dort geblieben. Peter     Liebe ALEX-II-Freunde,   heute berichtet mal…...

Daily Update – Liv   Yesterday, in honour of Christmas Eve, we commenced our Deck Olympics, planned by Pasha and Jacob. In this event, Watches 1 through 6 competed against each other and an elite team of Alex II Stamm Crew.   To start, Michael and Bernd judged a Clar…...

The 23rd consisted of waiting for the 24th. It was the last day of class before a long, well-deserved break. We’re all very tired and staying focused in class is hard, but we’ve almost finished the Atlantic crossing. The day went by very fast and ended with a fun Christmas…...

Yesterday was another beautiful, sunny day. As the countdown to Christmas draws nearer to a close, floaties have been gathering to build gingerbread houses, decorate the tree, and watch classic Christmas films. It is also common to see hammocks set up on the foredeck, with some people even choosing to…...

Yesterday was a regular class day. The students who are doing the OS exam on the 23rd have been spending a lot of time studying, doing work on deck and attending OS meetings. And we ended the night off with some Christmas trivia and the winners were David green and…...

The 20th of December was a pretty good day. It happened three days ago, for which I apologise. So let’s go back in time…   There was 4 to 5 days until Christmas (depending on who you ask), tensions are slowly rising! AND only three days until the OS exams!!…...