Emma's Siblings

June 22nd

Yes, I know many of you are campaigning for the “Emma’s a big sister” blog entry, but that’s not happening so get over yourselves. This entry is about two different sets of siblings Emma has gained for the voyage. First, she has four “big sisters” through the ship’s Big Brothers/Big Sisters Program. Alice, Cynthia, Sarah and Lori are fantastic. They all have different majors and interests, but each of them is either a fan of music theatre or mythology and some love both. One of them went to ship school with Emma yesterday morning, made the craft with her and then stayed to have lunch with us. One of them came to see her at the pool today and will be meeting her tomorrow after the morning school session to play board games. The other two stayed and visited for quite some time the night they were introduced. The other four siblings we’ll meet for the first time tonight. There’s an Extended Family program on the ship and we’re meeting ours for dinner after Wade gets out of his meeting with trip and bus leaders for the Spain and Italy trips. With this program, we’ll add four more girls to our family for the voyage. These are just two of the many, many ways SAS works to build community on board the MV Explorer.