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I just circumnavigated the earth

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iSkiAz
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and it was amazing,
started in Cali- down to ensenada
Hawaii
Japan
China
Hong Kong
Viet Nam
India
Mauritius
South Africa
Ghana
Brazil
ended in florida

and had the time of my life
some highlights-

Skydiving over table mountain, Shark cage diving, Vortex trance festival in S. Africa, hookers, Rio is amazing, saw the Taj...

pretty much just raged everywhere- I recommend anyone who has the chance to do semester at sea to do it, there is a ton of financial aid out there for it. If anyone has any questions about it let me know

May 10 2010 1:42PM
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Arabian.
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Yeah but I bet ur still a virgin - hahahahaha lol?
May 10 2010 1:43PM
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TNK4frnt
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And I bet you're cool - hahahaha lol?
May 10 2010 1:45PM
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iSkiAz
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Wow NS has gotten classy-


It was through the university of Virginia, I took 12 credits on a cruse ship- it lasted 109 days. We would take class for about 8 days then have like 10 days in each port to do whatever we wanted to.
The ship was a converted cruise ship that is 590ft with 8 decks into a floating university- it had everything including a bookstore, library, comp lab, classrooms, a bar, pool.....
May 10 2010 1:49PM
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Tw33k3d
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you are so goddamn annoying


OP - that sounds epic dude. what'd you think of Ghana? thinkin about taking a trip there
May 10 2010 1:52PM
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Bar_Down
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jesus christ that sounds unreal. must be expensive as fuck though
May 10 2010 1:55PM
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Bar_Down
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lol im paying like 2k per semester
May 10 2010 2:03PM
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iSkiAz
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Yeah- it was realllllly expensive- prob twice the out-of-state tuition i pay in AZ- but def. worth it
all in all- tuition, expenses and independent travel I prob spent 35g- but very worth it.
May 10 2010 2:42PM
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BootySpunk.
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That sounds so fucking amazing...holy shit!

So jealous.
May 10 2010 2:51PM
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skiminnesota
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this sounds like it would be such a blast!

you should post some pics of all the cool places you went to.


PPS Ensanada is a shit hole, or atleast last i was there. lolollo
May 10 2010 2:55PM
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Zump.
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this for sure
May 10 2010 3:05PM
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dynodonkey
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yes pics would be sweet!
May 10 2010 3:10PM
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skier_boy26
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for 35 grand i could probably travel around the world for a well over a year, so in my eyes it would be cool, but far, far from worth it. My program at school has a studio in Rome (in addition to semester at sea), and it is even worse of a deal at nearly $15k after expenses for eight weeks. I'll be traveling for about 50 days at maybe around $3k, so... extend that out to over 100 days and I'm still well below $10k, and I dont have to do shit for school and do what i want. illlllll
May 10 2010 3:20PM
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geteducated
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how long were you at port in each of those destinations?
May 10 2010 3:36PM
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theblacktaco
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he said like 10 days or somthing .. look up it says
May 10 2010 4:03PM
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Thenowhereman42
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Despite the fact that I generally don't like cruises and it was probably really expensive, I bet that was ridiculously fun. 0.o which country were the hookers involved? You gotta be careful with hookers some places.
May 10 2010 4:12PM
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iSkiAz
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Some places we would have 10 days, others just 5 or so- and some countries we stopped in 2 places.
Hookers- Vietnam and Japan- and yeah i think u have to be careful with sluts everywhere
May 10 2010 4:21PM
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Pisces
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although i don't know what the op did in ghana, i can tell you from experience that ghana is fucking amazing. spent 2 weeks there 2 summers ago and ive never had so much fun in my life. met some awesome people and had a blast. make sure to go to random villages and shit and meet people. they all loved us so much and treated us really well. everyone thought we were rich americans and every 5 seconds i heard "obruni give me money!!!"
May 10 2010 4:23PM
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EastCoast315
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Hah! $35,000!?!?! I could,while occasionally working, travel the world for ten years with that amount. I'm not joking at all.
May 10 2010 5:18PM
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Chaka
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I wanted to do Semester at Sea so bad, but with scholarships and financial aid it still came out to 20,000$
May 10 2010 5:26PM
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jca
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yeah, no kidding.  I know someone who lived lavishly in Asia for 8 months on $3000.
May 10 2010 5:27PM
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EastCoast315
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thats my plan, bro. Work seasonal jobs in the states, and live like a king abroad. On and off, for life
May 10 2010 5:30PM
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pounds.
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For some reason this $35,000 doesnt sound that much. Many colleges have a tuition of 50,000+, so 25,000 a semester. For 10,000 extra you travel the world and have the experience of a lifetime, while still learning as though you were on campus. This is still a pretty steep price, but I think if you compare it to the general tuition of some of the more prestigious colleges its not so bad. He also mentioned some extra financial aid, so it could end up costing a lot less than 35,000.
May 10 2010 5:46PM
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1337
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that sounds pretty sick actually. go somewhere and ski.
May 10 2010 5:56PM
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iSkiAz
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good 4 u!

I have no regrets whatsoever doing this- it was expensive but completely worth it. I did not have to take any time off school, and had a room that traveled along with me so I never had to take a huge bag around and could buy a bunch of stuff and not have to carry it around everywhere.

With the amount of money I would have spent on plane tickets, accommodation and everything- I think semester at sea was the right choice for me, that being said I would not do it again, it gave me experience I thought I had, but in reality did not at all- to be able to travel and make my way around in countries where I did not speak the language, did not know the laws.

Now I want to travel Europe and Australia-

and FOR SURE will return to S.E. Asia- Vietnam was paradise, and I want to go to Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia soooooo bad.
May 10 2010 7:03PM
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geteducated
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so huh, all this talk about land, but what did you think of the ocean? its another world in itself if you've been so fortunate enough to be 100's of miles from the beach.

May 10 2010 7:29PM
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Style+eeze
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was this 35k on top of your tuition at college? that sounds like a blast, i'm stoked for you!
May 10 2010 7:34PM
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.Asain-Skiier
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I wonder if my sister is going to do something like this. She has recently gotten accepted to Harvard.
May 10 2010 7:38PM
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Mike-O
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I'm curious - did you loan the 35 grand from somewhere or get a job for it? That kind of cash doesn't just drop in overnight.
May 10 2010 7:40PM
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Mike-O
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I don't mean to sound like a crazy person here, but I could get a loan for a sick ass house with low interest if I had 35 grand, just like that.
May 10 2010 7:42PM
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jeremy.g
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jealous. sounds sick. but way too expensive
May 10 2010 7:43PM
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WaterBottle
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would lower karma,, but already 0/10
May 10 2010 7:48PM
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sol-JAH.boi
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hmm sounds a lot like Zack and Cody: Suite life on deck haha...but so sick im def going to look into this...was it only for this past semester or did they do another trip last semester...pics!
May 10 2010 7:57PM
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hue.
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you PAID for sex???
May 10 2010 8:06PM
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MADDECENT
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That sounds amazing. I'm for sure going to keep that in mind for when I get to college
May 10 2010 8:11PM
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iSkiAz
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I am terrible at uploading pics to NS.... and I have over 2000 pics from the trip- hard to pick a few good ones...

Answer some q's-

The program is every fall/spring/summer
Fall and spring give 12-15 credits
Summer9-12
Summer is a lot cheaper, and usually goes around Europe...

I go to NAU and they held my western union exchange program off for a year and the only thing I had to pay NAU was $100 for a study abroad application, no tuition there.

I will try to get more pics up on here... I might just make a blog with a bunch of good pics and put a link to it on this..

Some people ask me if I have ever paid for sex. The answer is yes, its pretty cool actually- you can negotiate pretty much anything and sometimes do things in the spur of the moment and they go by without much argument.
May 11 2010 12:33AM
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BMskier
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ummm what? do tell about the coolness of taking advantage of a women pleazzz
May 11 2010 12:38AM
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Enraged_Raccoon
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everybody's favourite gay kid... oh wait... no, you're the one that nobody likes.
May 11 2010 12:39AM
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EastCoast315
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I'M the one everyone likes, right!? lol
May 11 2010 5:47AM
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iSkiAz
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thats the Kenny Powers way
May 11 2010 7:15AM
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theline
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this kid clearly missed the part about hookers.
May 11 2010 8:44AM
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applejuice.
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yeah i mean honestly it may seem like a lot but to do everything that you did and to have that kind of experience it seems reasonable! that's so awesome tho, semester at sea is a great opportunity and not too many students take advantage of it! stoked you had a great time and you made it back safe!
May 11 2010 10:16AM
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Dan.
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last time I checked, it costs nearly 3 grand to get round trip tickets to many places in asia.
May 11 2010 11:12AM
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EastCoast315
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Who flies? Crew on a fucking boat and get PAID to travel + hitchhiking means you can have a negative travel bill
May 11 2010 11:53AM
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May 11 2010 12:04PM
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applejuice.
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hahahahahaha
May 11 2010 12:07PM
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Enraged_Raccoon
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hahaha definitely. you're more than okay by me
May 12 2010 11:25PM
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