Thus far, I've rearranged my academic schedule, taken 8 months off from college to save up money and have applied and been accepted to the Semester at Sea program.
Next comes the more nit picky stuff:
Visas
Too many scholarship essays
Planning itineraries for 12 countries
Medical check ups
Vaccinations from Yellow Fever to Japanese Encephalitis
A bureaucratic marathon of academic paperwork for my home University
Class registration
Country Research
A self imposed summer reading list of one novel per port
Determining a packing list
And finally a lot of shopping for items that i am going to need abroad (voltage converters, back-up camera batteries, luggage, watch, etc...)
While I am trying to avoid complaining about first world problems, this has easily been the most logistically daunting task of my lifetime and all of my deadlines just keep steadily marching forward. What keeps me going is that the incredible itinerary below is coming along with them.
EMBARK: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Casablanca, Morocco
Takoradi, Ghana
Cape Town, South Africa
Port Louis, Mauritius
Chennai, India
Penang, Malaysia
Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Hong Kong / Shanghai, China
Kobe / Yokohama, Japan
Hilo, Hawaii, USA
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Traverse Panama Canal
Havana, Cuba
DEBARK: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA
