Location: Underway
Two significant things happened today. We had an island tour of Sao Vicente, Cape Verdes, and we began our Atlantic crossing! At nine o’clock Tuesday morning, all 19 students and three staff piled into a lime green van. Our tour guide, Be-Cool, liked to take us to many beaches. We reenacted the human tower of Tarragona (we got three stories high) and tackled each other in the fine sand while playing Bulldog. At the next beach, a couple of our brave souls were slaughtered in a game of soccer against the local six-year-olds at recess. We also took a one-way, windy dirt road with a vertical drop on one side to the top of what looked to be the highest point of the island: beep, Beep, and a mirror at every blind corner. Back on the boat, we prepared for the Atlantic crossing. Passage prep went smoothly. With a strong wind to our backs, we confidently raised our sails. Atlantic Ocean, here we come!