14th August White Watch Blog Update

2010-08-14

 

Daily log.

 

Today was a tough day, we had 3 watches off 4 hours. So we had to wake up at 11.30 for our first watch, it was the first time we had the watch from 12 to 4 o’clock. It’s verry weird to wake up in the middle off the night, be awake for four hours, and then to go back to bed again. We could only sleep until 8, because we were supposed to have breakfast at that time. We all arrived at the table with a sleepy head and in our pyjamas. After we ate some braed we went back to bed. It’s been a rough night because we had to wake up every few hours.

Luckily the weather had changed dramatically, the wind wasn’t that strong, we were running like 5 knots, and even the sun appeared from behind the clouds. Everybody took there wet cloths out and hung them arround the ship to dry.

 

We started to make our own sailing-videomovie. It’s on the song off the Black Eyed Peas, I got a feeling. So we sort off made the storyboard for our movie. During the day the deck was filled with people laying in the sun, listhening to some music and generally enjoying the good weather.

 

In our seccond watch we had some lessons on how to tie knots and stuff, so Christiana learned everybody how to tie an eightknot, and a reefknot, a bowline, and I can’t remember the names of the other knots. Milan and me helped her a little because we also knew the knots. We also played the integrationgame, which I missed becouse off the videoclip.

We helped the captain and his crew to set the bom bram kliver, because the other one ripped in the storm yesterday.

 

Then we got the Italian dinner, which was pretty good. They made spaghetti carbonara and tiramisu for desert. They even sang the national anthem after thein presentation.

 

Now it’s the last watch of today, from 8 to 12, it’s 8 o’clock and I’m getting pretty tired. We played a game, Who am I. We came up with a famous person and 1 of the trainees had to guess who it is by asking questions. We could only answer by yes or no!

 

For the rest the watch was quit, the sunset was verry beautiful and everybody from the watch before us stayed to watch and take pictures.

 

Karlijn, white watch

Holland