close to Midway

Greetings from 94 knottical miles from Midway Island, which is the closest piece of land to us at the moment.

Our latitude is 26 degrees 41.0 N
Our longitude is 177 degrees 23.7 W for those of you who want to map out where we exactly are.

It has been an interesting couple of days at sea since Hawaii. For one I can not get my damn pictures to upload and not only is it draining my precious minutes but it is making me crazy. But the much bigger thing is that we have moved into talking specifically about the Ports we are going to in Global Studies and while that was thought to be a good thing it ended up causing a HUGE stir on campus yesterday as one of the professors proved to be as ethnocentric as some of the students and managed to completely stereotype all of Japan and alienate many students and staff on bored. Hopefully, good will come from it as there was some students who banded together and are planning some things to hopefully change the course, that at the current state is heading down a negative path. Today, Global studies was much better as two other professors were able to undo some of the damage done yesterday.

Not sure if I talked about how crazy it was for me to be on land… I got more sick, though it still was minimal, while walking around Hono, then I did on the ship. And we were only on the ship for what, 5 days… Japan is going to be interesting.

Last night the whole ship had to fill out many forms for the various Ports we will be visiting and you have not seen chaos until you try and get 500+ people to fill out paperwork that in cases like Japan cannot have any mistakes.

In a couple days we will loose Sept. 7, so if someone out there would be so kind as to let us know what happens that would be great.

Speaking of rainbows… last night we went through a couple of Squalls and they produced the two most amazing rainbows. At one point you could see the rainbows going down into the ocean(possible illusion) and the colors were so vibrant that you could not see through them. Of course I did not have a camera with me so there will be no pics but the sunrise this morning was great and the picture is of that.

I think that is it for now… good day