We set out to “make waves in 2020” as I embarked on a year-long Semester at Sea experience. Mom joined me for the fall voyage, while Chris and some of the kids planned to sail during the spring. Though the adventure didn’t unfold the way we’d hoped, we returned home where our family (Team Seng) focused on gratitude and set forth to ride the waves rather than make them.

In 2021, Team Seng drew on the wisdom of a new life guru – Ted Lasso – to navigate our way through the second year of the global pandemic. According to Ted, “I think if you care about someone and you got a little love in your heart, there ain’t nothin’ you can’t get through together.” With that love and care, we made it through and are looking forward to new adventures.

Team Seng will celebrate the New Year in Naples, Italy, on a weeklong SAS Homecoming excursion before my mom, Chris and I join the Spring 2022 Voyage. We are excited to be a part of the first voyage since COVID. There are many unknowns and the semester will unfold much differently than past years, but we are ready! After a strange year filled with challenges, a whole lot of love and a little TV binge-watching, we are able to channel the wisdom of Ted Lasso, “I feel like we fell out of the lucky tree and hit every branch on the way down, ended up in a pool of cash and Sour Patch Kids.”