Week 1 back onboard Ruyter!
And there I am, back onboard the Ruyter again for my first official term with Wagenborg!
It feels strange but really nice at the same time! Everything went so fast yet so slow due to our little virus friend not so friend…🦠
Passed all my exams in February, passed them all, received my diploma in March and was scheduled to be onboard mid-April, but finally, all crew changes got postponed till 1st of May. I was lucky enough to spend a lot of lockdown time with my parents and brother at home. There hasn’t been one dull day between sorting ♻️ , arranging, fixing 🛠 , creating 🧵 , working out 🏋️ , walking the dogs 🐕 and baking 🍰 . And I really miss their presence and I am looking forward to seeing them in two months, safe and healthy 💚💙.
After a long travel day, I joined the vessel in Rotterdam and got a welcome committee waiting for me as I was arriving by a small boat. It was a few months and to be honest very difficult not to give a hug to this second family, and keep the so-called social distance. Smiles and happy faces. This is what I like. 😃 I missed them and they obviously missed me too. It is good to be back; and not as trainee anymore but a chief officer. Let the fun begin! 🥳
I just needed a new overall and new gloves to be ready to go: back on the job, still learning and progressing in my welding skills ✌🏻 and already trying to have a good start and scrapping off jobs from the list… this is how we like it right? Chop chop! 💪🏻 it is nice to come with full new and fresh energy and just getting things done ✅ ✅ ✅
We discharged lupine seeds 🌸🌿…. imagine a cargo fuuuuulll of flower seeds… well ko need to tell me what to do with those that were collected from the sweeping…. 😉 giving a try to a onboard small garden behind the sink in the Bridge…. just to make sure the captain wouldn’t throw my homemade garden pot made from half a bottle onto the blue shelve, I included him…. he probably thinks it is now his garden…;) good. Hopefully, he will not forget to water them either…. he is dutch after all right? 😉 And I am terrible at growing plants! 🌱 😂
…. @ Paris – Gare de Lyon
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