INTERNSHIP ~ Week 3 🚢 ⚓️✌🏻

One week in Russia 🇷🇺 already! As you can notice I am never too far from tall ships…

Here in Kaliningrad not only we were moored astern of Sedov but, other tall ships are everywhere to be seen …. 😉

Ruyter is out of the water now and ready for a huge sand blast. Pretty cool for her to get a lift but for us, a closed ventilation is not so nice… but we still do the jobs! 😉

A good team work for changing the rubbers of the hatches on sunny days and overhauling generators and oil seperators on rainy days… 🌧 it is still pretty cool onboard!

We had the chance to go downtown and found a few cool spots! World heritage cathedral and old unused buildings from the soviet time…. its either poor or rich which makes a funny combination when all mixed together … no real harmony ~say my architecture eyes 👀 ~ but still nice to walk quite a bit! 🙂

No need to say that all the shipyard workers are coming to « check the female crew out » that we kind of had to say the captain was our father and the engineer our brother to warn them 😆… its pretty funny. They are offering us appointments in beauty salons for our black oily nails… well sorry we are not the type wearing guess sweatpants, long fake nails, gucci socks and huge sunglasses and half a centimeter make up on the face… but thank you for the offer! 😉
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A lot of learning in the engine room this week and was really surprised to realize I knew way more than what I thought… and the captain seems pretty happy about that! Apparently some come onboard and do not know how to hold a screwdriver…!! 😮

So happy that not even at week 3 out of my 13 weeks internship, he offered me the chief officer’s position if I wanted… 🙂 like wow! What on earth is happening here????!!! What have I done here? Super surprised and also a bit proud…. i must say! Well i am really looking forward to do more here!
Even though i miss quite some people and the dogs back home too! i am thinking of special people I havent seen or heard from in too long.♥️
I am almost done of the mini Reese peanut butter cups I had and i am trying to save them till my birthday but i guess I’ll have to find some new ones soon…⚓️

@ Калининград