It’s only one week before I move out of my apartment and two weeks until my planned start of my tour.
Currently, it is way too cold (for me) to cycle with daytime temperatures around 0°C + (a lot) wind chill leading to felt air temperatures around -5 – -10°C….brrrrrrrrrrrrr….this morning I cycled for 30 minutes to the public order office and afterwards 30 minutes back – and it just wasn’t any fun….
My oh my, how time flies….again two weeks have passed since my last post….
The past two weeks not a lot happened due to exceptional cold weather: -10°C during the day is something we don’t experience here very often, so not a lot is happening outside.
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Hi everybody
yeah, I know, it’s already two weeks again since I last wrote, despite my resolution to write every week. This time my excuse is that I was sick…like really sick, fever included, just lying in bed shivering of cold and pain. So the last week for me just didn’t happen. Which doesn’t really help with preparations and the “Don’t panic, everything’s going to be alright”-attitude.
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It’s been a week since my plan for this year “occured” to me and it seems to actually last this time, I’m in full preparation mode:
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19 days after the previous post…. I suppose that has to increase a lot if I want to do blog writing as part of my job 😉
Thing is that until Friday morning not much has changed. (more…)
Hey there
Today, I want to write about not knowing and still acting 🙂
For 10 days I’m now without a job, I still get some money for overtime compensation but I’m not working anymore and for me it feels like being without a job. Absolute freedom, no responsibilities, no pressing money issues. It sounds perfect, right?
It is – almost.
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Wednesday, 18th July 2012
I woke up around 5 a.m., when we had already docked, and couldn’t get back to sleep. At 6 a.m., I got up, showered, and packed everything up. Of course, there was no sign of the others at breakfast. I grabbed a piece of baguette as a snack for the journey and was down at the dock at 7:30 a.m. sharp, where unfortunately there was no taxi waiting.
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Tuesday, 17th July 2012
As always on board, I slept soundly until around 7 a.m., even though I was a little groggy. I had dreamed about a confusing Unicorns game with strange rules that went on forever. Additionally, I had to unclogg the toilets there. In the middle of my work, I went outside again to find that the game was finally over and the Unicorns had won 7-6.
Understandably, I was a little tired after that.
Monday, 16th July 2012
I feel strange today. I don’t know if that’s already the pretaste of saying goodbye soon or the fact that I seem to have only just realized why work life here is so hard.
Until now, I always thought this was my dream life, but somehow that dream burst yesterday. At least, that’s how it feels today.
Wednesday, 11th July 2012
After eight hours of sleep, I woke up in a great mood and full of energy. After breakfast, I went cycling for an hour. Then I took a shower and did some reading by the pool while Hamadou scrubbed my cabin.
After that, I took a trip to the forecastle. The water is even smoother than usual, and there is trash floating by that you don’t normally see between the waves.
On the other hand, there are hardly any flying fish to be seen.