Offshore Updates

I'll be leaving Monday at 0315 for an offshore field seminar aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer and will be out of communication until February 12th. Follow our progress here or on the SEA website.

The Golden Gorilla

The Golden Gorilla Ninja match is on. The game is open to students, faculty, and staff.

HOW IT WORKS:

Someone initially steals the Golden Gorilla statue from Catherine's office. (Using mad Ninja skills).

The Golden Gorilla continues to be ninja-ed away from those who would claim it as their own.

The person in possession of the Golden Gorilla upon arrival at Closing Dinner (ninja-ing is not permitted in the restaurant) wins a prize that will announce to the world his/her awesomeness.

Catherine Kutzuba Blanchette

Administration and Finance Director

Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program

Happy National Lady Gaga Day

Snow!

Morning tour during Maritime History...as it starts to snow...looking at the restoration process of the Charles W. Morgan.

A completely candid photo of my roommate enjoying some brisk weather and maritime literature.

"The Stream" from Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa (1935).

One of my favorites so far....

Williams-Mystic S'10

A bit more about the program: http://www.williams.edu/williamsmystic/

My class schedule:

Monday
0900-1015 Literature of the Sea
1030-1145 Maritime History
1300 Maritime Skills

Tuesday
1030-1145 Marine Ecology

Wednesday
1030-1145 Maritime History
1300 Maritime Skills

Thursday
AM Literature of the Sea (tutorial session)
1115-1230 Marine Ecology
1330-1700 Marine Ecology Lab

Friday
0900-1200 Marine Policy Seminar

Carr House

Day One

So I'm living in "Carr House" with four other girls split between two double rooms and a single. My roommate and I are sharing a pretty small room with a bunk bed, but with everything to do I'll be lucky to even have time to spend 8 sleeping hours here, so space shouldn't pose a problem. Ours is one of four historic (read: really old and flammable) houses owned by the seaport museum.

Here's my address for the semester:

Gabrielle Joffe
4 Bruggeman Place
Mystic, CT 06355

....send packages to:

Gabrielle Joffe/Williams-Mystic
75 Greenmanville Ave
P.O. Box 6000
Mystic, CT 06355

Need I say more? Love letters, chocolate, Bonine...k thx!