NUGGETS OF WISDOM WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF THE PAINTING IN MY CABIN

NUGGETS OF WISDOM WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF THE PAINTING IN MY CABIN:
(beware – some of these get a bit explicit, so just prepare yourself now)

Get it girl…uh
- anonymous

Tips for SAS:
1)      Varanasi=lots of dock-time, long story
2)      Buy raffle tickets at Walmart in different colors for drink tickets
3)      Drug tests are a myth, have fun!
4)      Fuck MAD bitches in Mauritius but don’t remember anything
5)      Don’t fuck with  Tina she might eat you
*the rest is unreadable but there are about 5 more tips

Tips from Spring 2008:
1)      Have no regrets if you have sex with a dirty whore in Mauritius, people will forget about it.  Every port -> new stories
2)      Watch out for Canadians.  (They are very fertile and get pregnant easy.)
3)      Don’t hang out with GINGER KIDS!!
4)      Girls that shave their heads on Neptune Day have low self-esteem and are easy
5)      Smoke hash in India (you will trip balls)
6)      Vietnam – eat snake and dog (ask for “Bark, Bark”)
7)      Be careful of pissed of Malaysians (you may think Asians aren’t intimidating, but they know karate)
8)      ALWAYS, ALWAYS bring booze on SAS trips
9)      In this room… if and when you take showers … 50% chance you will get pregnant.
10)     Buy a shit ton of hot sauce.  If Mez is in the cafeteria, you’re stoked.
11)     Beat up kids that wear crockies
12)     Lastly, HAVE FUN, BLACK OUT,your best memories will be what you don’t remember
love,
Jeremy Schwartz

Summer 2008
1)      don’t eat the food in Egypt… Pharoah will take revenge on you!
2)      Don’t expect straight A’s… UVA hs upped the par of academics onboard
3)      Smuggle drinks onboard, especially for the end (i.e. Ambassador’s Ball, I regret not doing it!  Last pub night)
4)      Sleep under the stars as often as you can
5)      Don’t use facebook on board, it eats up all your minutes
6)      Get to know people in your hallways….do homework in the hallways, etc.
7)      BALTIC SEA fuckin’ rocks, baby ….#1 gold medalists, 2 semesters in a row!!! (if you have Iron Chef contest with pizza, make it a Thai pizza not Italian)
8)      If you ever have to a tender, book a hotel (the tender stops going to the boast at 2)
9)      Don’t travel to Moscow by yourself and make sure to master some Russian before entering the county
10)     Make sure to cite in your papers and don’t use Wikipedia!!!
11)     Make out with someone in every country and try to find someone on the ship too…to make ship times more “exciting”
12)     Make sure not to miss you boat in the Greek Islands…it won’t be fun spending $700 to Serbia then Croatia cuz you didn’t get back in time
13)     Eat tons of Belgian fries (put tons of Samuria sauce on it to too) and Belgian Waffles…they’re so good!
14)     Make the most of life here and push yourself…have no regrets and you’ll have the time of your life!!! We certainly did!
-Andrea Kramer and Alli McSorely
p.s. Meclizine does not deactivate birth control

Practical Information (Fall 07)
1)      Global Studies test will be harder than you think (Someone in wrote in different colored pen CHEAT next to this statement)
2)      Egyptian police suck monkey balls, do not try to go to Israel
a.      On that note, they will never check your passport for stamps in other countries
3)      Buy a sitar in India or something equally ridiculous
4)      India and Vietnam are the cheapest places, buy your shit there
5)      You will not get tested for drugs unless they think your on them
6)      Find out what Geocaching is if you don’t already know
7)      At the end of the voyage, they will let you turn over-due library books for free
8)      You can do anything in any country without SAS trips
9)      Don’t be a “SAS-hole”
10)     Duck-tape sets off metal detectors
11)     Take the extra mattress from the bunk bed and put it on top of yours
12)     Weight limitations in foreign airports are the same as the US (along with batteries)

More Summer 08
1)      swim naked in the sea!
2)      Get up for breakfast!  It’s the best meal of the day
3)      Get a Life Long Learner Family – they can bring things onto the ship that you can’t
4)      If they have your cereal out, grab 10 boxes
5)      In Croatia, moonshine – homemade wine and figs
6)      Don’t freak out when something goes wrong, everything will work out.  miss the tenders, stay out all night – these are the best memories you will have.

How 2 sneak on booze
1)      do it first day in port
2)      girls – in boobs (not vag)
guys – tape to thighs first day
OR
Buy juice cartons (1/2 gallon) open bottom with credit card.  Pour booze in carefully (use funnel system) seal with super glue. Never fails.
*Next to this written in different colored pen, someone wrote “this is too elaborate.  Read the situation, and pack accordingly.  We got ten handles on in our legs/ bags/ under jackets/ taped to chest/ rectally….etc.

1)      Have a foursome with your socks on, it’s really no THAT awkward
2)      I blew my load on these walls, on this bed, in these eyes…
3)      If you look really ahrd you can still the poop stain on the carpet in front of the bathroom…almost made it.
4)      Condoms are overrated. Kids rule!
5)      I may not know you, I may never meet you, but bro –your dick is the greatest!
6)      And remember, there’s always time for one more shot with your best friends.
Your scurviest sea-dog,
Rob Anderson F ‘08

This is the revolution
I have the solution
Take acid
Drop out
Drown in liquor and frolic about
-SAS ‘76

1)      Go vegetarian, all the cool kids are doing it. (vegetarian is crossed out and GAY is written over it)
2)      Work out for the few first weeks. You will feel better about yourself when your are too lazy to take the stairs at the lsat port
3)      Forego Global for sleep
4)      Do not be “that guy,” nobody likes that guy…certain things that qualify you as that guy:
a.      Unprotected sex with hookers in Vietnam
b.      Stealing alcohol from the Captian
c.      Working out without a shirt one during Pub night
d.      Excessive use of “bra.” “broseph,” or “dude”
e.      Milking the camera for air time
5)      If you are a girl and spend lots of time with the dependents, you are nice if you are a guy…creepy
6)      Eat anything you want, but avoid water
7)      Buy music in every port, music triggers memories
8)      Attend evening lectures.  They are often pretty dan good
9)      The visas SAS gives you forbid you from leaving the country, do not learn this the hard way. Make sure you have a visa that permits travel outside of the country
10)     Do not do overnight trips, unless they are homestays – this is my one regret with SAS
11)     Bend the rules – rent a car, leave the country, just be smart about it, don’t blab about it to everyone
12)     Pick who you travel with wisely, at the end you will remember who you were with more so than what you were doing


Fall 2006
1)      drug tests are NOT a joke! They give you 30 days to clean up (this is crossed out and someone wrote SMOKE WEED!!)
2)      your body is the safe zone for sneaking booze on.  You’ll never be patted down except for in Hawaii
3)      there’s no dock time in the last port, get wasted and be late…so are all the professors!
4)      Random room searches do exists…but they’re not that random
5)      The smoker’s deck = “wrong crowd” assumption >drug tests
6)      RD’s aren’t you friends, they may be chill but they’ll turn you in.
7)      Don’t underestimate global studies (next to this someone wrote this girl is just stupid)
8)      Bring toilet paper to every port!
9)      ALWAYS have a business card of the hotel you’re staying at…then when you’re drunk you can just hand that to the driver
10)     “Live every day like it’s your last”
11)     Don’t worry about people from home
12)     Don’t worry about taking pictures of everything
13)     Walk around open eyed…taking everything every port has to offer in.
-Dawn, Sarah,  and Scribble-scrawl of a Signature

As for my tips:
1)      Taste everything
2)      Talk to everyone – locals and SASers, they all have an interesting story
3)      Get to know inter-port students
4)      Make friends with the crew – they will hook you up
5)      Explore on your own
6)      Ask questions, ask for help when you need it, don’t be afraid of strangers…just be cautious
7)      Sing, dance, paint, draw, write
8)      DO HOMESTAYS
9)      Don’t plan, just go
10)     Travel how you want to, with people who you enjoy – it’s not worth it to follow someone else’s plans and be with people you don’t like
11)     Travel with new people constantly…it’s refreshing
12)     In Thailand, GO to Koh Samet! Do NOT go to a pingpong show, it will scar you for life.
13)     DO NOT bro out in the pool in your speedo…it is not attractive