Crossing the line

Two more sea (and river!) days have brought us both below the equator and onto the Amazon River. Min was a bit delayed in making up our rooms this morning, so we moved our first class sessions downstairs to one of the common areas. This worked out fine and school in general is going well. Devin powers through his math lessons very quickly. If this continues, I’m thinking we can put more into one day’s class and then look at doing some sixth-grade math later on. On Thomas’s side we’ve done the traditional “Hello, world!” program, meaning we’ve gone beyond the hurdles of downloading and installing all the bits and pieces necessary to do Java development. He wants to take AP Computer Science next year and I want him to be familiar with basic programming before that.
Outside of school work we got in some ping pong, some putting, some axe throwing, and a bunch of walking around the ship. And of course plenty of eating. The food has been fantastic! Tonight in the Terrace Café there was a soup station doing noodle soups. The chef already knows the four of us are vegetarian and guides the staff to veggie-friendly dishes for us. There was a vegetable broth for the soup to which we could add all our own choices.

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