Life at Sea - Part 2

April 2nd

Oh what I wouldn't give for a juicy burger right now! Or some Fried Chicken with curry gravy! Or a piece of Easter Bun! Fried dumplings!!!!! Random choices I know, but see with me, I'm dreaming here.

April 3rd

Last night I went fishing; Or rather squidding, if that's a thing. I went up to the bridge to visit one of my officer friends on duty. He pointed out to me several lines cast off the starboard side of the ship. I had wondered before if anyone actually did any fishing; there was my answer. Some guys actually caught some!

I doubt they will go to waste. I strongly suspect they might turn up in a meal somewhere. I didn't stay long as I hadn't planned to be there and had some other things to do, but I think I'll go back some other night.

April 6th

The days tend to blur here. It hardly matters what day of the week it is. What is a weekend? lol. There's work to be done and so it's done. The only marked difference is that there is a little extra at Sunday dinner (the coca-cola, beer and extra dish I mentioned).

This Sunday dinner was a disaster for me, even with the extra dish, there was nothing, nothing that I wanted to eat. My chef friend was most distressed on my behalf.

Life at Sea - Part 1

I wrote these updates while I was at sea, but since I had no internet access, I wasn't able to post them at the time. The next few posts record tidbits during the course of my 6 weeks on my life on board a vessel.

March 26th- 27th

Parting Shot- No land again for 6 weeks!!

I will refer to these as the lost days. Days that I spent mostly horizontal feeling very sorry for myself. Days when just the slightest whiff from the kitchen made me feel like hurling myself off the side. Days where I was subsisting on mainly bread and yoghurt and the mere thought of going to eat would upset me. Days when I really wondered what I had gotten myself into.....

 You may be thinking but heyyyyyy you got to eat Chinese food everyday! Awesome! Welllll let me stop you right there. I was to learn very quickly that everyday Chinese food is not what we know and love as Chinese food. Let's not even get into the mystery meat that would make an appearance ever so often.  There was a struggle. Once we hit the open ocean, I think my body had too much to adapt to at once and started to rebel, which as you can imagine did not end pleasantly for me. I think the change in food, even more so than seasickness itself was causing me to feel ill. At first I thought hmmm maybe I'll lose weight on this diet. That soon changed to hmm maybe I'll get hypertension instead (the food sometimes tended to be a little salty to my may taste- very salty at times actually) . Then there was even hmm.... I might just waste away and die! Luckily, the latter option did not come to pass. I may in fact have to check out that hypertension thing though. I had been to sea before so I expected my sea legs to return more quickly than they did, but I really think the food was a major contributor to my discomfort.