No More 9 to 5

5-2-13

It has been a few days since I last wrote but not much is going on right now. We moved off of Amulet for the first time since we got here. We are staying in the flat now and I must say the space is nice but I miss the boat. Its just more fun that way! The flat is cool too though. I can hear the live music from Pirate's Bar from here with my window cracked and its really relaxing. We are in Coastal Theory this week which means more chart work and tides and plotting. We are also getting our VHF license this week. We have officially decided to stay for the Ocean course which is another 3 weeks so a total of 14 weeks at the school. I am enjoying our time here so much but also excited to start delivering boats and visiting new exotic places.

We did see more dolphins on our last day of day skipper. I was able to stand on the bow and get a really good video so here ya go! It was so amazing!!

So I got this new towel and it is just like the other one I have ya know microfiber quick dry and all. Well it is pink and I needed to use it yesterday since my blue one was dirty. I did not wash it first and so it turned my whole body pink!!! LOL everything I touched turned pink yesterday!!! My white shorts I was wearing…pink on the inside! The table I was working at where my arms touched….pink!! on the table!! My shorts turned so pink I could not stop laughing all day. It just got worse and worse as the day went on..and then on into the night as well…We had a few drinks with some new people in the class last night. Not the most responsible idea but honestly my brain and everyone elses was absolutely fried! We are taking in so much info right now and our brains are just mush…so its not like we could have continued to do homework or study anymore. Everyone went to dockside…every person in the class…lol..we were all hurting…it was a good night though. I rocked at coinage! Which is like playing quarters back home…you bounce your coin off the bar and try to make it into the glass and if you make it the other person has to drink whatever is left in the glass…I don’t know if it was luck or if I have mad skills but not gonna lie I did pretty good.

Tyrone has a phone again! Yay! Still not sure what happened to the other one but he blames me since I was the last one to use it….honestly I don’t know if it was me or not. All I know is I used it to take a video and I put it back in the nav desk with mine and mine is fine but his never turned on again. So we lost the videos of Nicole and Scott swinging on a halyard off the side of the boat to try to get off the sand bank. So sad. They were awesome videos!

So I heard the Ravens won superbowl yayyyyyy!! Don’t ask me why but that is who I was rooting for. I think it was because they beat the Patriots…I dunno…

Had my first doctor visit yesterday too. I needed to get some antibiotics so I just went to the clinic in Langebaan and was the first one in so they were able to fit me in early and got a script and some meds for a grand total of about $80. Not too bad…I thought it would be much worse but it wasn’t too bad at all. JJ is a lifesaver! He got up early and drove me since I don’t have a car or anything. Lifesaver!!!

Anyway here are some long overdue photos...