Well I safely landed in Colombo, Sri Lanka after an approximate 12 hours of flight...! Walking out into the striking sunlight I was immediately rewarded with a heavy, muggy sensation… The heat combined with the dampness of this country have made is into a giant steam kettle! (Yet this is the “cool” season) Being onboard the ship as a "project worker" is in itself an entirely different experience. I am a stranger to the fifty new recruits yet everyone else on the ship knows me, making them the strangers! Dry-dock is special as well, in the sense that yes, you mostly work: you shake your self awake to eat at 6:30 am, sort of stumble into your job at 7 am and then regret having to stop around 6 pm. (with the breaks that makes it ten hours of work a day) Once we get into our dry dock berth (we're sailing there now) we'll learn to work alongside the dock workers of ill reputation (it is said that they steal everything from under your nose, even your moustache!). We’ll still be living testimonies for them through the way we work and interact alongside each other. We are about 180 people whom have stayed behind on the ship, (the 220 other having abandoned ship to rest, minister and serve in various other ways) the most left behind being from engine or deck department. Strangely enough I get to work in a fresh and clean environment; I've been given the job of modifying specific branches of our Hi-Fog system (fire prevention sprinkler system) to make them more effective. I love what I am doing (it IS different from working with loads of… well… other stuff.) and am soon done with the first big project; I'm looking forward to be able to work on some other Hi Fog areas around the ship!
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Lets get it up and running!
Well I safely landed in Colombo, Sri Lanka after an approximate 12 hours of flight...! Walking out into the striking sunlight I was immediately rewarded with a heavy, muggy sensation… The heat combined with the dampness of this country have made is into a giant steam kettle! (Yet this is the “cool” season) Being onboard the ship as a "project worker" is in itself an entirely different experience. I am a stranger to the fifty new recruits yet everyone else on the ship knows me, making them the strangers! Dry-dock is special as well, in the sense that yes, you mostly work: you shake your self awake to eat at 6:30 am, sort of stumble into your job at 7 am and then regret having to stop around 6 pm. (with the breaks that makes it ten hours of work a day) Once we get into our dry dock berth (we're sailing there now) we'll learn to work alongside the dock workers of ill reputation (it is said that they steal everything from under your nose, even your moustache!). We’ll still be living testimonies for them through the way we work and interact alongside each other. We are about 180 people whom have stayed behind on the ship, (the 220 other having abandoned ship to rest, minister and serve in various other ways) the most left behind being from engine or deck department. Strangely enough I get to work in a fresh and clean environment; I've been given the job of modifying specific branches of our Hi-Fog system (fire prevention sprinkler system) to make them more effective. I love what I am doing (it IS different from working with loads of… well… other stuff.) and am soon done with the first big project; I'm looking forward to be able to work on some other Hi Fog areas around the ship!
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