College at Sea

We found out when we got on the ship that our internet time was only going to be

half of what we expected. So now we about 10 minutes each per day.

This morning I tried to download a picture which always uses a lot of time. This

time before it finished downloading I lost connection to the server. When I logged

out I had used 9 minutes and had nothing to show for it. So don’t expect many

pictures. Hopefully, we’ll find free or reasonably priced Wi Fi at some ports.

Cutting and pasting text doesn’t take nearly as long (nothing fast on satellite).

The ship’s photographer told me about a free program I can download that

can reduce size of picture file. I’ll try to do it early tomorrow when few people

should be using internet. 

The Captain just announced about the earthquake and tsunami warning. He said

we were not to be concerned because of the deep water we are in. We should not be

concerned because of the depth of the water. However, we will have to wait

to see if any ports we are scheduled to visit are affected. 

We had a presentation today on the great Temples of Asia. Just seeing the pictures

makes me want to visit. We did visit the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. 

Dr. Leavell’s presentation today on Hinduism was very interesting. I feel like I’m back

in college and trying to cram a lot of information into a small brain in a short amount

of time.