Teenagers Sail Across the Atlantic

Josephine Hurst Start Date: Sep 29, 2021 - End Date: Sep 28, 2022
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Intern Abroad
  • Canàries, Spanien
  • Kap Verde
  • Dominica
  • Azores, Portugal
  • Kiel, Deutschland

My Travel Story

by: Josephine Hurst Start Date: Sep 29, 2021 - End Date: Sep 28, 2022
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Intern Abroad
Hello,
my name is Josephine and I’m 15 years old. I applied to a sailing program, which crosses the Atlantic on a sailboat together with 34 fellow students. School teachers and a small crew compliment the group. The program lasts six months.

After a long selection process I finally got accepted! Woohoo!! I am so excited.

Besides learning for school I will learn to sail, to navigate and to do engine maintenance. We will sail to the Canaries and to Cape Verde where we will donate things we gathered ahead of time for an elementary school. Then we will sail across the Atlantic to the Lesser Antilles, there we will help rebuilding houses that were destroyed by hurricanes. After that we will visit the Azores and then sail back to Kiel.

I dreamed of this sailing trip since I was in 6th grade and now it will come true! There’s just one thing I could really use some help: Funding to cover some of the cost. You can help me by sharing some money. Even if it isn’t much, it will help me! And I will be grateful. You can choose any amount, or from one of the Donor Rewards.

Let me tell you more about the trip and myself.

I lived a long time in Germany, but now I live in the USA. My father is half American and half Swiss. My Mother is half German and half French and I have six siblings.

I like doing gymnastics in the garden, to play Akkordeon, to go sailing, to go skiing, to read and to make bracelets out of colored string.

I have had a dream for years. It was a sailing trip together with my younger brother. After we finish school we wanted to implement it. And when I found out that I could do a sail trip like that even during high school, I wanted to go on this sail ship immediately. 

The project is from the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. It is called Classroom under Sails (German: Klassenzimmer unter Segeln) and it starts from Kiel.
For more Information you can click on the links below.
https://www.mspaed.phil.fau.de/about-us/kus/
https://kus-projekt.de
I hope you will help me!
Best regards,
Josephine
  • Canàries, Spanien
  • Kap Verde
  • Dominica
  • Azores, Portugal
  • Kiel, Deutschland

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  • Kick Off: Anchoring In Front Of The "Nord-Ostsee-Kanal"

    Kick Off: Anchoring In Front Of The "Nord-Ostsee-Kanal"
    We left the harbour of Kiel on October 17 and are anchoring for the night. Tomorrow we will beginn our first leg to the Canary Islands by following down the chanel (Nord-Ostsee-Kanal) to reach the North Sea at the Elbe River North of Hamburg.

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