MIDN's LOG
21 Days to go, 2 countries and 1 equator crossing and this little adventure will be all but done. Our next stop, for those of you who have been following along, is Guayaquil, Ecuador. In order to get to Guayaquil we actually have to make a 4 hour trip up river (not sure which one) in order to reach the Port. We will be making our attack run on Wednesday and it should be lots of fun.
But why not something that's a change of pace. Today I had what is called C/C duty today. I think it stands for cooking and cleaning duty except that all I did was the cleaning part. I had to wake up at 0530 and worked til 0900 in the garbage room. then went to class (completely slept right through it (we were debating whether drugs should be legalized or not, so I didn't miss a thing)) then for lunch I worked in the scullery from 1100 to 1330. The scullery is where we clean all the dishes, it was surprisingly not that bad and it didn't smell as bad as the garbage room. Then for dinner we worked from 1600 to 2000 had a BBQ on the fantail as is tradition for Sundays here on the TSGB. I spent the time running between the galley and the stern and then sweating up a storm in the scullery (you'll learn some nautical terms, just stay tuned). Due to our hard work and my obviously dashing good looks, Mom, the ship's baker,(who calls us all "Son") has promised us a pie and great big chocolate chip cookies all to ourselves tomorrow. Then for the final act of the day we emptied the garbage room by throwing the paper and food over the side out of nice little hatch in the side of the ship, that is nice and body sized. We compact the plastic and then incinerate it, well the incineration fun saved for more qualified individuals. Altogether today was at times gross, but not to hard, just really long.
I would now like to take this time to thank those who make all these post worth while with their continuing emails of encouragement. In particular, my brother, who despite: midterms, finals (ive been on this boat too long) taking care of my dog, the shingles, looking for a Job, his senior project, and work; he still manages to email me every day or so, for a sanity check. But thank you to all of you who have emailed me, I mention my brother, because he was the brains that made this blog possible. OH! and if you email me and i don email you back that day it means one of two things. My email blocked you because it is over protective, and in that case I will email you as soon as I get Vallejo to unblock you or, I'm in port and thus not on the ship to check it. But again thank you all for emailing me, keep it up! and if you haven't, (Santino Borling) there is no time like the present to start!
Thank you again, take care
remember to spay and neuter your pets
S.R.Schiesser
MIDN 3/c USNR
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