English Blog Posts 2017/18

posted on 30.11.2017 posted by Leon During the time before the trip, I’ve often been asked whether we do have school aboard the Thor Heyerdahl. And now I can say: Yes. We do. But it’s mehr lesen…

by Paul Climbing the highest mountain of Spain is an awesome and difficult experience and we got to our limits. We started our field trip at the 16th of November at 09.00 am. A coach mehr lesen…

written by Marlene B. Today we visited the Thor Heyerdahl museum in Güimar to learn more about the person our beautiful ship is named after. We went by bus because the museum is about an mehr lesen…

posted by: Carl I guess all of you, or the biggest part of you, think that Sentry Duty (or “watch”) means to do many things with the sails for three hours or have at least mehr lesen…

written by Benno It is one of the most important things on board, but it is no navigation device, no emergency signal and no communication device: our galley duty. Galley duty is very important for mehr lesen…

by Hanna A dream has come true. Or to be more precise: my dream has come true. I have never thought about having the possibility of living on a ship for six months. Getting woken mehr lesen…

by Kim Many of you were in Kiel, when we started our big trip and saw this 50m long ship, that will be our new home for the upcoming six months and everyone of us mehr lesen…

By Judith On the 22nd October the Thor Heyerdahl started her 10th journey to the Caribbean islands. On the ship is a crew with teachers, pupils and sailors. For most of them it is the mehr lesen…

By Arne Having been on the Thor Heyerdahl for nearly two weeks now, we can say the Thor is our new home! After we solved lots of problems, we all started to make ourselves comfortable, mehr lesen…

by Benedict “The North Sea will be really hard!”, Ruth told us while we were passing through the second lock of the NOK in Brunsbüttel, one day after we had set off from Kiel. At mehr lesen…