I hope to gain a great deal from Class Afloat, including greater direction in life with more focus on what I'd like to study. I know I'd like continue my education at the university level with a general arts program. I feel I will learn a lot from having to adapt to strenuous circumstances- restrictive space, insufficient food and sleep, along with regular duties and educational requirements. I look forward to making friends that will be with me the rest of my life.
I joined Class Afloat because I felt that I needed to know myself better before going further with my formal studies in Canada. I plan on going to a university next September. I feel the biggest challenge for me will be learning a new language and always being in a group because I enjoy having time alone. I hope to gain a greater understanding of myself, beome better disciplined, and to learn more about other cultures.
Some of my hobbies include playing the piano, volleyball, basketball, and badminton. I also enjoy skiing, reading, and camping. Not having traveled very much before, I look forward to experiencing all I can in these foreign places and continuing to travel when I return. One of the biggest challenges that I foresee on the boat will be waking up in the middle of the night to go "on watch", as well as waking up in the morning after a long previous day.
On Class Afloat I hope to learn how to make my own decisions. My biggestchallenge will be to be with people who don't speak my language. My hobbies are reading books, working on my computer, watching good movies, and meeting with my friends. After this trip I will probably return to my old school.
The biggest challenges I think I'll face while participating in Class Afloat will be keeping my grades up, becoming a well-educated sailor, and managing to still have fun. I hope to gain maturity and to grow as a person as I learn about the world and the cultures that fill it. My hobbies are playing all kinds of sports, dancing, traveling, spending time outdoors, and hanging out with my friends. Hopefully in the future I will be able to finish high school with good marks and attend a university to study the sciences, perhaps marine biology. I would also like to continue to sail and to travel.
I love the mountains and hope to live there after I finish high school and university. I hope to study forestry. I look forward to gaining all sorts of knowledge on this trip. I am excited about experiencing new cultures. No sleep, hard work, and hunger between meals will be the biggest challenges, not to mention the small rooms.
I would like to travel all over the world to meet people who are different from me and from those that I meet in Paris. I want to learn about personal solidarity while continuing to help others all I can. My passions are traveling, sailing, karate, and reading. The hardest thing about Class Afloat is going to be rarely having any time to myself.
I want to learn more about the world while learning to be more patient living in a community. My biggest challenge will be to keep on going and not to give up when things get hard, and then even harder. I want to see it all! After Class Afloat I would like to attend a university and become a sports therapist.
I enjoy playing basketball and traveling. I know that Class Afloat will give me a memory that will last forever as I face the challenges of showering in a shower the size of a small closet, finding enough food to keep from starving between meals, communicating with people who don't speak English, passing Math, and avoiding seasickness. When the trip is over I plan to graduate from high school, take a year to travel, and play basketball.
I expect Class Afloat to be the experience of a lifetime. This is my first time away from Montreal for an extended period and I am very excited and pleased to have been accepted to join Class Afloat. It is definitely difficult to find time to sleep while on a boat and I expect it to affect my school work. I enjoy skiing and sailing, but also relaxing and doing nothing at times.
I enjoy hanging out with my friends, playing hockey, football, and pool, and snowboarding. While aboard Concordia I hope to gain knowledge of other parts of the world, make new friends, have an experience of a lifetime, and to learn more about what I really want to do with my life. It will be a challenge to live in a small space, stay awake for night watch, maneuver sails at 3:30 am, and get all of my work done in time. When I get back to Canada I hope to do more traveling and snowboarding while getting good grades and having fun.
I have visited a number of countries and am looking forward to more. I would love to live in the Rocky Mountains (to ski!) but also want to go to a university after Class Afloat. I was a competitive figure skater for six years and love to hike and sail. I see the biggest challenges as concentrating while so much is going on around me combined with a lack of sleep.
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