INTERNSHIP ~ Week 13 … & The. End. 🚢 ⚓️✌🏻♥️

My oh my. It is the end. Or is it the beginning?
I am so confused.

Three months went by. Already! How fast does life go when you enjoy learning and what you are doing?! But most of all when you enjoy the people surrounding you making everything seem so easy and fun? #girlpower #teamruyter

While France 🇫🇷 is striking their butts off and complaining as always, I need to wait till some kind of transportation is available for me to fly ✈️ home or take the train… I am lucky to have a direct flight. And I am lucky 🍀 to have almost a week extra onboard 😎✌🏻

But I am still confused. I came on board as a trainee having absolutely no idea of what would happen. And I leave now not feeling a trainee at all. I leave being one of them.. being trusted and respected (I think 🤔?! 😆) for my work and who I am, with my teasing, my jokes, my person and probably determination to go from A to B as a team.

We had a goodbye bbq last Monday on the aft deck (check out the crooked bbq! 😂) because of crew change (Ruyter women signing on and off!) and it was a moment to share together. It was awesome. But then I just broke into tears in my cabin because I realized how happy I was and I actually didn’t want to leave. Of course, there were other reasons… probably a lack of sleep… not mentioning the wine that sometimes gets me all emotional 😂… but I felt so so so grateful.

So thank you 🙏

Thank you for supporting me in my challenges. And thank you for the changes in my life and the people I have met.

1 task book 📖 filled and sent, 6 reports, 5 exam reports, over 25 homework exercises, quite a few cargos with ballasting and deballasting, 2 weeks of shipyard in Russia, 1 💥, 1 month with no engine in Delfzijl, one clean overall that turned dirty just to pretend I did something (…) later… I am proud of what I did and thankful for the people that helped me get here. I am so grateful and its perfect timing just before Christmas 🎄!

My parents cannot wait to have my home (sounds weird… 😆) and I cannot wait to tell them all the good stories! But I know I will miss it ALL!

Till my next adventure… with lots of love 💕 sopietje xxxx ⚓️ ♥ @ Delfzijl