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