Children at Sea

Faculty and Staff boarded the ship on Wednesday afternoon. Emma was beside herself with excitement anticipating the arrival of other children, especially two other five-year-old Emmas. Our Emma Caroline has a room next door to Emma Marie, and Emma Esperanza lives just down the hall and around the corner. In Costa Rica a fourth Emma (7) will join us for a couple of weeks. Other children on board: Johanna (9), Kyla (10), Amanda (14), Santiago (8), Sarah (7), Danielle (5), Campbell (7), Malcom (4), Mariana (9), Nicholas (6), Brandt (1). Three or four others are scheduled to join us in a couple of weeks. ISE has hired two Dependent Children Coordinators for this voyage. Oscar Zavala and Jill Hurd (parents of Kyla and Emma Marie) are fantastic! We are fortunate enough to live next door to them and they have some fabulous activities planned for the kiddos on board. “School” runs from 9-12 and 2-4 on the days we’re at sea. Monday will be the first official day, so we’ll post more on this soon.