Road Rules: Semester at Sea

Road Rules: Semester at Sea is the eighth season of the MTV reality television series Road Rules. This season featured six cast members in the shipboard Semester at Sea study program, and followed the cast as they travelled aboard a cruise ship, both while taking school classes and embarking on the various adventures and scavenger hunts typical of Road Rules. This is considered to be the final season of the 'classic era' of Road Rules, as the format of the show would change significantly beginning with Road Rules: Maximum Velocity Tour. This season was filmed in: Nassau (Bahamas), Havana (Cuba), Salvador (Brazil), Cape Town (South Africa), Mombasa and Chyulu Hills (Kenya), Madras (India), Penang (Malaysia), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Hong Kong (Hong Kong), Shanghai (China), Osaka and Tokyo (Japan), and Seattle (Washington).

Road Rules: Semester at Sea
Season 8
The cast of Road Rules: Semester at Sea
Starring	Ayanna Mackins Pawel Litwinski Pua Medeiros Shawn Sealy Veronica Portillo Yes Duffy
No. of episodes	19 (including two specials)
Release
Original network	MTV
Original release	June 8 (1999-06-08) – October 11, 1999 (1999-10-11)
Season chronology

A pair of specials — a casting special and a "Passport to Road Rules 8: Semester at Sea" special, aired on June 8 and June 14, 1999, respectively, and the season premiered on June 21, 1999.

Cast

Cast member	Age1	Hometown
Ayanna Mackins	20	Media, PA
Pawel Litwinski	21	Brooklyn, NY
Pua Medeiros	19	Hilo, HI
Shawn Sealy	19	Boston, MA
Veronica Portillo	21	Tustin Ranch, CA
Yes Duffy	19	Berkeley, CA

• ^Note 1 : Age at time of filming.

Missions

#	Mission	Result	Notes
1	Sky Dive Onto A Desert Island	Completed
2	Make Your Way To Civilizations	Completed
3	Softball	Completed
4	Picolino Circus Performance	Completed	The cast are able to give an iMac G3 for street kids
5	Live with South African Families	Completed	At the end of this mission the cast do a presentation of Apartheid on the ship
6	Photo Safari	Completed
7	Install Solar Energy in Dalit Village	Completed
8	Job at Matang Wildlife Centre	Completed
9	"A Day in the Life of Vietnam" Race	Completed
10	Ho Chi Minh Millions	Completed
11	Dragon Boat Race	Completed
12	Perform in Chinese Opera	Completed	The first half of this episode marred by anti-American Protest took place in Shanghai following the United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
13	Anime	Completed
14	Skidome challenge	Completed
15	Salon at Sea	Completed

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original release date
103	1	"All Aboard"	June 21, 1999 (1999-06-21)
104	2	"Running Off With the Circus"	June 28, 1999 (1999-06-28)
105	3	"Answering to the School Bell"	July 5, 1999 (1999-07-05)
106	4	"A Coming Home"	July 12, 1999 (1999-07-12)
107	5	"A Coming Home (2)"	July 19, 1999 (1999-07-19)
108	6	"Pawel's Kenyan Experience"	July 26, 1999 (1999-07-26)
109	7	"Hot Voodoo"	August 2, 1999 (1999-08-02)
110	8	"Pulling Together"	August 9, 1999 (1999-08-09)
111	9	"Paint or Pay"	August 16, 1999 (1999-08-16)
112	10	"Just Say Yes"	August 23, 1999 (1999-08-23)
113	11	"Good Morning Vietnam"	August 30, 1999 (1999-08-30)
114	12	"Ho Chih Minh's Millions"	September 6, 1999 (1999-09-06)
115	13	"Growing and Rowing"	September 13, 1999 (1999-09-13)
116	14	"Shaghai Surprise"	September 20, 1999 (1999-09-20)
117	15	"The Perils of Pua"	September 27, 1999 (1999-09-27)
118	16	"Accusations"	October 4, 1999 (1999-10-04)
119	17	"10 Days"	October 11, 1999 (1999-10-11)

After filming

Veronica appeared nude in the May 2002 issue of Playboy magazine, along with other alumni of The Real World and Road Rules: Flora Alekseyeun, Beth Stolarczyk and Jisela Delgado.^[1][2][3] In 2007, she returned to the series as part of the alumni cast of Road Rules 2007: Viewers' Revenge.

In 2007, Ayanna welcomed her first daughter, Madison.^[4]

Yes is currently an architect and fabricator and works at University of California, Berkeley.^[5]

In 2018, the cast reunited for a 20-year reunion cruise. Ayanna Mackins, Pua Medeiros, Yes Duffy and Shawn Sealy attended the reunion.^[6]

The Challenge

Cast member	Seasons of The Challenge	Other appearances
Ayanna Mackins	Extreme Challenge, Battle of the Sexes, Battle of the Sexes 2	The Challenge: All Stars (season 2), The Challenge: All Stars (season 4)
Pawel Litwinski	—	—
Pua Medeiros	—	—
Shawn Sealy	Battle of the Sexes 2	—
Veronica Portillo	Challenge 2000, Battle of the Seasons (2002), Battle of the Sexes, The Gauntlet, The Inferno, Battle of the Sexes 2, The Inferno II, The Ruins, XXX: Dirty 30, Vendettas, Final Reckoning, Ride or Dies	The Challenge: Champs vs. Pros, The Challenge: All Stars (season 3), The Challenge: All Stars (season 4), The Challenge: All Stars (season 5)
Yes Duffy	Challenge 2000, Battle of the Seasons (2002), Battle of the Sexes	The Challenge: All Stars (season 1), The Challenge: All Stars (season 3), The Challenge: World Championship