18 January 2009

Things are good here, just another day. But we get to watch football today so that is pretty exciting. I start my last week of school tomorrow, I’ll be very happy to get that over with, then I can spend all of my time working on getting qualified. I’m really glad we get to see the football games. I watched some UFC fights last night and Rich Franklin fought, he’s a Math teacher in Cincinnati so I was bragging about that to everyone. There isn’t much going on, like I said the same old stuff. I just wanted to say hello. Please tell everyone that I’m doing well.

Bremerton, WA - Leaving Port

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http://www.kitsapsun.com/videos/detail/uss-stennis-leaves-bremerton/

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2009/jan/12/stennis-sailors-prepare-for-seven-months-away/

The first one is a video the second is just an article, don’t pay attention to the 7 month thing. The video isn’t that great, I was disappointed because the Captain said that we had some good press when we left. It looks pretty amateur. Either way its kind of cool.

15 January 2009

Yesterday was a little slower than the first day, we just moved stuff around all day. My supervisor whom was also my sponsor did a evaluation on me yesterday and he said that from what he can see so far, I am well on my way to being pretty successful and that he thinks I’m a good worker. Asking questions and trying to learn. I thought that was good. I haven’t seen land in the past two days, that’s pretty interesting. The sun is so bright with nothing else around it, it was nice and warm too. I wanted to grab some pictures of the sunset yesterday but not even 20 minutes after that we moved into some heavy fog. All I could see was white, I could barely even see the water. Sleeping on the ship is great while it rocks. Walking during the day sometimes makes you feel drunk lol. That’s probably another reason sailors drink, because they get used to stumbling around on the ship and need to feel the same when they are on solid land haha. I’ll do some research lol.

I just got done with lunch, and I need to get back to work. Things are still great, I love it.

Day One

So I’m wrapping up my first day. It was very interesting, I like it. They are already asking me if I want to stay active or just go according to plan and do half and half. I said active at first but the way it was explained to me, I’m going to say no and just do what I signed to do. I did a lot of work today and learned a lot of things, there was even a fire. A small one but still. I only got to take one picture, its dark now so maybe I’ll have a better opportunity tomorrow. This is all I have for now.