Traveling Journey of the Denny Child Begins

Hello to all including family members and close friends: (This is a repost from October with  LOTS updates that i made in between then and the trip) 

    I am doing semester at sea through the University of Virginia. I will be be traveling to Nassau, Bahamas for an extended vacation from January 16th, 2012 to January 19th, 2012 before the boat leaves on January 19, 2012 around the afternoon. I am staying at the Sheraton Hotel and Resort in Nassau (Pictures of the place will show up on January 17, 2012.)

For my family and close friends: I will not be on facebook until May so the best way to contact me is through here. I may provide an email address specifically just for SAS email closer to the trip so that my other emails will not be overrun with other email. My facebook page will have a note on the site that i will tag everyone on so that way the link will be on there with additional information. It is currently up right now. Please check the notes on my page. It is open to everyone right now who is my friend on facebook. :)

For Mrs. Hagan and her 3rd Grade Class
I am so excited to have met you before i left and i can't wait to keep in touch with you the entire trip and share all the wonderful experiences with you. You are all more than welcome to leave comments on here about anything or if you just want to look at my blog and read about what I discover on my journey. Thank you for giving me such an awesome opportunity. Please enjoy reading this and check for any blogs that I post up just for the class! Enjoy your class and have fun! Mrs. Hagan, thank you for providing me with such a great opportunity to be able to share my experiences with your class. You are such a wonderful teacher to instill such an interest into your students to hopefully one day travel like i did. Enjoy! I do have a post up for your just your class so please make sure to glance at that later on. I have a map out and ready for each Country so you can use this to show your class during the time that i am in a specific country.

Moving on...

I will be documenting my experiences and pictures on this site as much as i can from pictures from being on the boat to countries and everything in between. I am happy to share this with all of you and I welcome any comments, questions, constructive criticisms and insightful thoughts about what I have experienced. So i have a few things that everyone should keep in mind about the blogs and who i put them up for. I am entitled to shut the blog down at any time and only certain users will be allowed to receive any updates from me. Please keep the following in mind when  leaving comments.

1.  I dont want any spam comments on my blog
2.  Do not advertise for business or a company on my page for any reason
3. Insults and/or derogatory language will not be used at all.
4. I welcome constructive criticism on both the blog sites
5. Do not disrespect others that leave comments on the blog

 FYI: I do have a 3rd grade class that will be looking at this blog during the semester and i want all comments on this page to be completely appropriate for anyone to read.
Towards the bottom of the page I have posted several links to my itinerary, and a few other items for basic information. I will be welcoming ideas of places that i should look to go to while i am in the countries that i am at. You are also welcome to post information on current events in countries (I really would love that because i like to read about things like this) along with other information on any law changes, currency updates, etc. For the food lovers, i will take pictures of all the food that i eat in every nation (especially in the Asian countries) and on board the boat just for the fun of it and for my marine lovers. I will try my best to get as many pictures as possible of marine life on the coasts. (Yes Debbie, you get plenty of them for your own personal enjoyment )

  There will be plenty of pictures, i promise. A selected amount will be put up but if you want to see all of them. Wait until i get back. A slide show will be developed hopefully during May when i get back for everyone to see. I will not be on Facebook at all during the trip so all your updates on me will be on this site alone unless I personally email you otherwise. I wish you all well and i can't wait to see you in May when i get back.

Some sites below to give you some information about the cruise :)

http://www.semesteratsea.org/voyages/spring-2012/spring-2012-itinerary.php

http://www.semesteratsea.org/voyages/spring-2012/spring-2012-field-program.php
(I will put up a list of the ones that I will be doing around Thanksgiving and then update in December and January)

http://www.semesteratsea.org/voyages/upcoming-voyages/spring-2012.php (Watch the video on this one)

http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/semester-at-sea/2011-sas-viewbook/2011091902/?referrer=http%3A//www.semesteratsea.org/landing/overview/inquire-apply-or-login.php#0

For all other info Visit http://www.semesteratsea.org/

PS: If you all are interested in reading my stories and/or poems, they are being posted on my other blog. http://mdennywriting.blogspot.com/
I leave a warning, they are not for little kids, they can touch some very controversial things and they are a bit dark so don't read them unless you keep a bit of an open mind to things. I don't really write clean stories all the time. the poems however are mostly fine give or take one or two. I don't mind if you like or dislike on there but please constructive criticism is appreciated. Thank you!