Spring 2015 - Day 7
Today I stayed in my cabin until almost lunch time reading my book. I read and read and read until it was finished and then I did my art homework.
I had to do 5 blind drawings of my hand in different positions and then a blind drawing of a corner of my cabin. They all turned out interesting and surprisingly look a little like art. Like I might have done it that way on purpose.
It was after my art homework that I decided that I had been in my cabin for far too long. Not having a window really does make a difference.
So I took myself out to the back of the 6th deck, found a table, and just stared at the ocean. It was beautiful, and peaceful. The water is still ridiculously smooth and glassy. It is hard to not stare at it.
Jessi joined me eventually and we just stared at the ocean and enjoyed the gorgeous weather and waited for lunch to be available.
After lunch I went and put my bathing suit on, slathered myself in sun screen, and laid outside on the 7th deck.
My life is just so hard right now. *sarcasm*
I eventually had to get up and go to my class, but it was drawing class so I totally didn't mind.
We took our newsprint pads, bamboo pens, and ink outside on the 7th deck. This was an adventure of its own because it was incredibly windy out. It took us a while to set up because of the wind but we got there eventually. We spread tarps out on the deck so that we wouldn't make a mess but that backfired. Someone spilled their ink and it got all over the deck. I am pretty sure we are never going to be able to work outside again. Hopefully they can get it out, it is a pretty big spot. I didn't really know why everyone seemed to struggle with getting their ink everywhere. I ended up with one or two spots on my hands but I didn't spill it or get it everywhere like everyone else seemed to. It was the opposite of the spastic person I usually am.
The exercise we were doing was a lot of fun. She had two of the RDs model for us and they would change poses every 5 seconds . So we had to get their general form down on the paper in 5 seconds. It was challenging but it really helped us understand how to capture motion within a figure. I really enjoyed it, and I loved the adventure of trying to work outside in the wind.
After we had finished I hurried to clean up because Jessi and I had to meet our extended family at 5:15. We got paired with a life long learner, Shelly Galloway. Actually her husband sailed on our fall voyage and I knew him and talked to him a couple times so it is a lot of fun to talk to her and swap stories. Jessi and I requested to be in the same family and luckily got our wish!
We have a really large family of 13 people. Because of this we had the honor of sitting at the captains table. It is a large table at the very back of the main dining room that is generally reserved for VIP guests. When we got there she had a post card and a package of gummy bears for each of us. We got dinner and talked for a really long time. Three of our original family members didn't show up but we adopted two add ons as dinner went on.
We talked about a lot of things, most of them SAS related. Again, Jessi and I became the all knowing wizards and everyone pressed us for answers on field programs and independent travel and ship life. It was fun though and Shelley jumped in and put in her knowledge from the two other times she sailed. She also told us the story of when one of her sons sailed. He was on the spring 2005 voyage, the voyage that got stuck in and survived the storm. No one else in our family even knew that it had happened so it was great fun to see all their faces and we told them the tale. If you are curious, the story was told on storm stories on the History channel and can be found on youtube.
Basically the ship sailed form Canada and while crossing the Pacific they got caught in two storms and almost had to abandon ship. There is footage of the ship rocking severely back and forth and of the students inside sliding back and forth in Tymitz square. Hopefully nothing like that will happen to us.
But the Pacific ocean is generally rougher than the atlantic so I will be experiencing rougher seas than I did before. Although Jessi swears it got really bad a few times. Guess I just blocked it out.
At the end of dinner Shelley invited us for cookies and milk in her cabin on the day we get back from Hawaii. I can't wait! I love my family already!
Since we arrive in Hilo tomorrow we had our logistical pre-port at 8:00. We are only in Hawaii for one day so they combined cultural pre-port and logistical pre-port together into one. Usually we will have cultural pre-port two days before we arrive.
The most interesting thing I learned was how the Hawaiian flag came to have a union jack on it. The union jack is the flag of the UK. On Captain Cooks third voyage he was sailing through the Pacific ocean when we came upon a group of islands that he named the Sandwich islands after the Earl of Sandwich. The people there assumed Cook and his other sailers were gods because of the way they looked and the things they brought with them. They worshiped him as gods until one of Cook's men died. They had assumed them to be immortal so when the man died they became suspicious. Eventually they started to war and he was killed in the fight.
The union jack was included in the flag to honor when the islands were part of the empire.
Fun fact: the original spelling of Hawaii was Owhyee.
Logistically there isn't anything too unique. We will have to go through face to face immigration because we sailed from Mexico but since we are mostly Americans it should go pretty quickly. We have to be back on the ship by 7:00 but I don't need to worry about that because I will be with a field lab. My lab leaves at 10 so I have to meet at 9:30. We can drink the water, that is safe, and they use american money so we don't need to worry about that.
Oh, and since we are in America our phones should work, which is pretty exciting.
It felt really good to hold that green piece of paper in my hand. It felt so familiar and comfortable. It is weird that a green sheet can bring back so many memories and make me feel so much better.
After pre-port I was sitting in the hallway outside my cabin so that I could get better wifi for emailing. There was a group of guys running around asking if people had pictures or another bed on their wall. We have a picture and it is tradition for every person who stays in the cabin to take down the picture and write advice on the back of it. The picture in our cabin last voyage didn't have very much on the back of it, just a crude drawing of a bunny doing something inappropriate to a bag of chips. It was disappointing. I told the boys we had a picture and that they were welcome to take it down if they had a screw driver. They starting screwing the pictures into the wall. I think they got tired of having to re-command strip them down after every voyage. Before you would just take a knife and jimmy it off but now it is much more challenging. Sometime I wonder why they stick them down at all, since they know people are going to take them off, but then I remember that the ship is constantly moving and it wold be really bad if the picture fell down on top of someone.
Andrew unhooked it from the top easily and hinged it down so that we could see the back but the screws were still in place. There is a ton of stuff written on the back, it's completely full. I took a bunch of pictures of it with my phone so I could go back and read it later. I don't think there is going to be any room for us to add something! At least there was more on it than last time.
I stayed up pretty late emailing and fighting with my computer. It is getting pretty bad, it won't even shut down correctly any more and will crash applications as soon as they are opened. It's a big problem and I am not entirely sure what to do about it yet. If only I didn't have a field lab in Hawaii I could go to Walmart and just by a cheap PC. Oh well.
Instead I will be drawing and learning about printmaking. Bring on Hawaii!!
I had to do 5 blind drawings of my hand in different positions and then a blind drawing of a corner of my cabin. They all turned out interesting and surprisingly look a little like art. Like I might have done it that way on purpose.
It was after my art homework that I decided that I had been in my cabin for far too long. Not having a window really does make a difference.
So I took myself out to the back of the 6th deck, found a table, and just stared at the ocean. It was beautiful, and peaceful. The water is still ridiculously smooth and glassy. It is hard to not stare at it.
Jessi joined me eventually and we just stared at the ocean and enjoyed the gorgeous weather and waited for lunch to be available.
After lunch I went and put my bathing suit on, slathered myself in sun screen, and laid outside on the 7th deck.
My life is just so hard right now. *sarcasm*
I eventually had to get up and go to my class, but it was drawing class so I totally didn't mind.
We took our newsprint pads, bamboo pens, and ink outside on the 7th deck. This was an adventure of its own because it was incredibly windy out. It took us a while to set up because of the wind but we got there eventually. We spread tarps out on the deck so that we wouldn't make a mess but that backfired. Someone spilled their ink and it got all over the deck. I am pretty sure we are never going to be able to work outside again. Hopefully they can get it out, it is a pretty big spot. I didn't really know why everyone seemed to struggle with getting their ink everywhere. I ended up with one or two spots on my hands but I didn't spill it or get it everywhere like everyone else seemed to. It was the opposite of the spastic person I usually am.
The exercise we were doing was a lot of fun. She had two of the RDs model for us and they would change poses every 5 seconds . So we had to get their general form down on the paper in 5 seconds. It was challenging but it really helped us understand how to capture motion within a figure. I really enjoyed it, and I loved the adventure of trying to work outside in the wind.
After we had finished I hurried to clean up because Jessi and I had to meet our extended family at 5:15. We got paired with a life long learner, Shelly Galloway. Actually her husband sailed on our fall voyage and I knew him and talked to him a couple times so it is a lot of fun to talk to her and swap stories. Jessi and I requested to be in the same family and luckily got our wish!
We have a really large family of 13 people. Because of this we had the honor of sitting at the captains table. It is a large table at the very back of the main dining room that is generally reserved for VIP guests. When we got there she had a post card and a package of gummy bears for each of us. We got dinner and talked for a really long time. Three of our original family members didn't show up but we adopted two add ons as dinner went on.
We talked about a lot of things, most of them SAS related. Again, Jessi and I became the all knowing wizards and everyone pressed us for answers on field programs and independent travel and ship life. It was fun though and Shelley jumped in and put in her knowledge from the two other times she sailed. She also told us the story of when one of her sons sailed. He was on the spring 2005 voyage, the voyage that got stuck in and survived the storm. No one else in our family even knew that it had happened so it was great fun to see all their faces and we told them the tale. If you are curious, the story was told on storm stories on the History channel and can be found on youtube.
Basically the ship sailed form Canada and while crossing the Pacific they got caught in two storms and almost had to abandon ship. There is footage of the ship rocking severely back and forth and of the students inside sliding back and forth in Tymitz square. Hopefully nothing like that will happen to us.
But the Pacific ocean is generally rougher than the atlantic so I will be experiencing rougher seas than I did before. Although Jessi swears it got really bad a few times. Guess I just blocked it out.
At the end of dinner Shelley invited us for cookies and milk in her cabin on the day we get back from Hawaii. I can't wait! I love my family already!
Since we arrive in Hilo tomorrow we had our logistical pre-port at 8:00. We are only in Hawaii for one day so they combined cultural pre-port and logistical pre-port together into one. Usually we will have cultural pre-port two days before we arrive.
The most interesting thing I learned was how the Hawaiian flag came to have a union jack on it. The union jack is the flag of the UK. On Captain Cooks third voyage he was sailing through the Pacific ocean when we came upon a group of islands that he named the Sandwich islands after the Earl of Sandwich. The people there assumed Cook and his other sailers were gods because of the way they looked and the things they brought with them. They worshiped him as gods until one of Cook's men died. They had assumed them to be immortal so when the man died they became suspicious. Eventually they started to war and he was killed in the fight.
The union jack was included in the flag to honor when the islands were part of the empire.
Fun fact: the original spelling of Hawaii was Owhyee.
Logistically there isn't anything too unique. We will have to go through face to face immigration because we sailed from Mexico but since we are mostly Americans it should go pretty quickly. We have to be back on the ship by 7:00 but I don't need to worry about that because I will be with a field lab. My lab leaves at 10 so I have to meet at 9:30. We can drink the water, that is safe, and they use american money so we don't need to worry about that.
Oh, and since we are in America our phones should work, which is pretty exciting.
It felt really good to hold that green piece of paper in my hand. It felt so familiar and comfortable. It is weird that a green sheet can bring back so many memories and make me feel so much better.
After pre-port I was sitting in the hallway outside my cabin so that I could get better wifi for emailing. There was a group of guys running around asking if people had pictures or another bed on their wall. We have a picture and it is tradition for every person who stays in the cabin to take down the picture and write advice on the back of it. The picture in our cabin last voyage didn't have very much on the back of it, just a crude drawing of a bunny doing something inappropriate to a bag of chips. It was disappointing. I told the boys we had a picture and that they were welcome to take it down if they had a screw driver. They starting screwing the pictures into the wall. I think they got tired of having to re-command strip them down after every voyage. Before you would just take a knife and jimmy it off but now it is much more challenging. Sometime I wonder why they stick them down at all, since they know people are going to take them off, but then I remember that the ship is constantly moving and it wold be really bad if the picture fell down on top of someone.
Andrew unhooked it from the top easily and hinged it down so that we could see the back but the screws were still in place. There is a ton of stuff written on the back, it's completely full. I took a bunch of pictures of it with my phone so I could go back and read it later. I don't think there is going to be any room for us to add something! At least there was more on it than last time.
I stayed up pretty late emailing and fighting with my computer. It is getting pretty bad, it won't even shut down correctly any more and will crash applications as soon as they are opened. It's a big problem and I am not entirely sure what to do about it yet. If only I didn't have a field lab in Hawaii I could go to Walmart and just by a cheap PC. Oh well.
Instead I will be drawing and learning about printmaking. Bring on Hawaii!!
