Ok well, today I have a few updates and stories, which is exciting because I had something new yesterday too. I'll start off with the boring stuff. We had another drill today and suddenly 5 1/2 weeks in they decide to show us how to get into our life boats... seems kinda late to me. Well at least it happened before you know, we really needed to know it. Anyways, the drill is not out of the ordinary. It was the pyrotechnic demonstration that the Deck department held afterward that was a change of pace. Now in all honesty it was pretty boring, especially after I taught a class on emergency signals, and probably shot off 100x more signals then they did, it was fun to see that I still sometimes know more than some Marine Transportation majors after being in Sea Scouts. But it was rather frightening and hilarious, the amount of times the "MT's" almost shot each other in the face with rockets and magnesium flares...
In other more relatively exciting news, we received word from our teacher, that we are most likely going to Mexico now, all we have to wait for is U.S. State Departments final clearance, but the captain, I quote, "Feels good about us getting our clearance." So hopefully we get cleared because in all honesty I do not want to be going to San Diego. Not that there is anyting wrong with being in San Diego, just I'm going to be spending July there, so I would much rather pass.
Other than that, I believe food is getting worse day by day. I am finding less and less interest in eating ship food. Can't wait for some Ecuadorian cuisine and then some home cookin.
later days,
SRS
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