Fun stuffs

Even though this post is called Fun stuffs, I’m still going to be an annoying moaner first. So I am on the island of Texel. In my opinion a hell hole north of the rest of the world. Or at least the main land. I know no one here and I really want to go home to my friends. I don’t feel social at all, so I’m not into meeting people. Even though I’m on a campus with a bunch of people. You have your own kitchen so you don’t need to go out at all. Plus here on Texel I’m on the most south point of the island where still people live. This means that I need to bike at least 3 km and mostly it’s 6 just to do shopping. So 1 bike, 1 me, lots of shopping and, as it is an island,  a lot, lot, lot of wind. Disaster, but well, only one week more and then it’s over. The work is fun, the island is not. I’ll survive anyways.

But fun stuffs, as I’m on this island I need to find fun stuffs to do, I decided to find out how windows movie maker works. I had a lot of pictures from my boat trip, 5 weeks worth of them. I actually took a picture of the sunset, or when it was cloudy, a picture of the clouds in the direction of where the sun would set, every night. I’m sort of proud of myself now as it actually worked. I even got music under it, with some difficulties but still. I hope it’s going to work. I’m trying to make Youtube like me now, failing miserably at it now. But we’ll see later.

Yesterday I was being a very active Lucy, I biked around half the island, with a lot of wind but apart from that it was fun. I went to the beach. I love the beach, the sand, the water, the shells.. everything. Later when you are home and find sand in everything it’s a bit less but I’m starting to ignore that. I’m going to try and be creative and make a mobile (one of those dangly things which can turn) of my shells. Lately I’ve also become addicted to finish my embroiderything. I started an embroidering project of butterflies and leaves and flowers. It’s now almost finished. The problem is that I am very bad at stopping. ‘Just finish this last thread, the figure, this colour’, etc, you get it. So I’m going to bed quite late, but it is weekend so I’m allowed. It is actually fun to do. I didn’t exactly follow the picture because I messed up a few times and changed the colours sometimes. I do believe it looks very nice so that is good. It might seem like an old lady thing, but it is really a lot of fun to do, so everyone should try it.

Love, Lucy

So after the Drama

So my boattrip is over, it was so much fun. Two and a half weeks ago, since I came back. I have decided that I love boats. I wasn’t really seasick ever, but that was probably because we only got bad weather after a week of adjusting and when we left the Cork harbour it was bad too. So the people that joined there all were a bit less happy with the weather, whilst I was reasonably good and not to sick. I knew that everything would be ok even before the last dramapost. So now I’m sure that I shouldn’t worry about stuff that much. It’s just so hard to stop worrying. I’m good at worrying, someone should teach me how to stop that.

The weather on the boat wasn’t that bad actually although we had about 4 days of sun or so, if you added up the hours of the 5 weeks. The temperature was about 12-13 degrees, so that’s not really summer weather either. Apart from that, I liked it. It’s good sleeping on a boat, you get rocked to sleep so that is very nice. And the people were fun too. It was weird though, to have to get up every day before 7.30 because otherwise you would miss breakfast. I had breakfast every day for 5 weeks, and always at the same time. Never had that much routine.. ever. We had a warm lunch, so that needed some adjusting too. And it was three courses, soup, mean course and a dessert. Although I didn’t eat soup and dessert half the time it still was quite a weird thing. At night we had bread with usually a snack or some other warm dish. The cooks were quite good. Friendly too so that was nice.

All in all there were 21 people, including me from Cork to Texel, from Texel to Cork there were 22 I think. Crew and scientists. I usually was sieving boxcores, piles of mud or sand from the seafloor. Found a lot of strange animals and other things that I didn’t really expect to begin with. But it was fun and interesting so now I don’t really have any regrets anymore.

I’m working on the island now, that’s also reasonably fun. The work is fine, the island sucks. I don’t like islands where you have to bike a lot to find food. The appartment also has cockroaches so that’s not to nice either, but apart from that it has everything you need so that’s quite good.

Anyway work tomorrow, hope to have a nice week of holiday in 2 weeks, looking forward to it.

Love, Lucy