First Entry

I’ve never had a blog or journal before, or at least not one that I tended to regularly. My thought is that the best way to start one of these is to briefly introduce myself. My name is Vincent Laliberte, Vin or Vince for short. Currently I am a student at the University of Connecticut. I attended the Waterbury campus last year and now I’m studying abroad for my second year of college. The study abroad program I am currently enrolled in is called Semester at Sea (check it out at semesteratsea.org). SAS is a program in which you take classes on a ship while the ship makes stops around the world. My trip started in the Bahamas and visits 12 ports total: Salvador - Brazil, Walvis Bay - Namibia, Capetown - South Africa, Chennai - India, Penang - Malaysia, Ho Chi Minh City - Viet Nam, Hong Kong - China, Shanghai - China, Kobe - Japan, Yokohama - Japan, Honolulu - Hawaii, and Puntarenas - Costa Rica. To date I’ve been a commuter for college, so going on this trip is a huge transition for me and I hope it turns out to be an interesting story for you to read.