Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Azores
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I had a great time in the Azores, we had a free day off, then on the second day we had a hike around a caldarra and swimming in the ocean. The following day we visited an old whaling station and snorkled afterwards. I liked the whaling station because we got to see how they managed to catch such huge creatures.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Message in a bottle
I have arrived in the Azores! Everything has gone well so far, I'll try to recount a short summary of the goings on from what I had written in the paper version of this journal.
While in Lunenburg: Everything is great, I'm making many new friends. Sail training is interesting, I got to go aloft (up the mast) earlier and it was great!
Day 1 at sea: Everyone is sick, so nothing really happened today, I seem to be relatively unscathed, thankfully.
Following few days: same as before
A few days after that everyone started getting better and things settled into a routine. My schedual is pretty busy, but I don't mind. I'm taking bio math and physics, but it feels like a lot of the nova scotia curriculum is a year behind what I've done, so it is pretty familiar. For example, we are doing quadratics in math 12. It does make my workload easier, either way. Learning to sail is great too, I went all the way up to the upper topsail a little while ago, I feel pretty nervous when I'm up there, but I'm told it's natural, and takes some getting used to.
I'm excited to be on land again, I think what I've missed the most (aside from people) were ice cold drinks, and greasy pizza. The food aboard is great, I would almost say it's an improvement on the shawnigan food. As for variety, we have had different meals every day, aside from the day when we had oatmeal for dinner because our excellent cook Dina was too sick to make it up to the galley.
One of the things that does bug me a little is when everyone says how they can't wait until such and such port. My personal philosophy aboard is to live in the present and enjoy every minute of it. I'm going to try to upload some pictures of the cabin and the boat as well. The sunset with this post was taken 30 nm off the coast of Florez, the Azores.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
One more post....
I managed to get internet on the boat while docked, so I thought I would update before we set sail in a few days. I successfully moved into my tiny four man room, and have mostly settled in. Made plenty of new friends, everyone is fairly similar in interests. I don't have pictures yet, I'll have to snap some off later.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
On my way!
This will be my last post before I cross the Atlantic, I move into my room today and we set sail in a week. I'm excited to meet everyone today.
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