Ok so here is the thing. I didn’t take time to post! I always wait till Sunday is over to prepare the post and Monday or Tuesday to post it! I just got caught up and procrastinated ….
Caught up in school. I finished the last Cargo assignment onboard, which means I have already passed 5 of my written exams that had to be done onboard. The school will just check in an « interview » if I were the one writing them! I haven’t been doing so much homework because I wanted to be part of what was going on deck… to be honest, I am pretty stressed that the subject I hate the most is about cargo! But its what I love the most onboard…. I think it comes more from the fact that the books are horrible to read in dutch and the exercises are like 150 questions per subject… 📚 I feel very lonely and ready to break into tears when I am in front of that book. 😢 so I have tried to be doing a few side subjects with not much (enough) concentration. Oh well.. 😔. The other reason is that I have spent way more time with the crew in the evenings. Watching a movie together👌🏻, getting a cappuccino or talking for hours. Getting to know people better and realizing you hadn’t expected you’d probably miss them a lot more than you would have thought. I have been trying to enjoy as much as possible their presence – way better than studying! 🤓🥰
I was so lucky I have been able to meet up once with an old friend of mine, Jonno, working on a tugboat not so far from Delfzijl. It is like almost 9 years of friendship. And he didn’t change a bit! That was one of my highlights🤪.
Workwise so much has happened in these two weeks: the engine is got out with a nicely cut door to the cargo hold. It was pretty fun. I got annoyed by the shipyard foreman thinking I wasn’t strong enough…. well, you don’t tell that to me! 😂 Captain Harry repeated it made him so proud when he heard the story 😂 💪🏻 badass chick … or just a Sophie putting someone back in his place… the cargo hold is now painted again 🙂 We are getting the ship in tip-top shape before sailing out again… 🙂
I already miss it while my last days are counted…. 😢🥺
Xxx sopietje ♥️ ⚓️ 🌟 @ Delfzijl
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