This morning, I woke up even earlier and made another Feldenkrais lesson, but it was exhausting, because I had to sit 30min in an uncomfortable pose and I only should imagine the movements, what is good and effective but hard to do for so long time, the more if sitting starts to hurt. I am warned and will not repeat this lesson too soon!
At the moment, it is easy not to eat too much, because I am not hungry at all. We’ll see if this is enough to lose some weight. I know that it is not urgent in any way, but first, I don’t want to miss the point when I gain unnecessary “reserves” and second I want to deal with this problem that is a real problem for so many people (at least more than for me).
I went to the bridge, because the ship was swinging stronger than I had experienced before and the officer explained that it is about 3-4°. I wondered that the sea seemed to be qualm and still there is this movement and he showed me something he called swell, some bigger and slower waves that move the ship although the sea is not rough. He showed me an instrument to measure the movement to the left and right. When the movement gets up to 10° (he told me, that on the way to Sydney they had such), you should not use the lift anymore and when it is 15°, they start to be concerned. But danger starts around 30°. I cannot imagine this, because also today things fell from the desk and when I did my running training on the tread mill, I alternately ran uphill and downhill – and had to strain harder and to slow down every few seconds.
A few hours later, I came again to the bridge, because I had seen that the ship didn’t move anymore. At noon we were in front of Melbourne, but instead of going long-side at 1800 we would have to wait for the pilot until 2200 and would not arrive before midnight, again because of lack of space in the port.
The next thing I learned today was that only in Singapore they would get new supplies. They haven’t any muesli or better bread onboard and I think about buying it in Fremantle when I wanted to leave the ship for a while anyway.
I asked my travel agent in Berlin, if it would be possible to care for healthy stuff on the last ship (Benjamin Franklin, from Singapore to Duncerque) and I also asked where I could address my concern about the terrible food-waste on all the ships. The problem is that at least the officers get their meals served and many of them eat just a little bit, the rest is thrown away. If they could take it by themselves or could decide how much they want to get on their plate, it would be better. And it is interesting that the company looks so much on the prices, that maybe differ in a range from 10-30% depending on what and where you buy, but in the end more than what they save by buying cheaper is wasted and this is not only a waste of their money it is also a waste of global resources.
Tomorrow, the Sri Lankan Buddhists (70% of the population) celebrates Buddhas birthday and they B-Deck is decorates.
I had asked the chief officer for a magnet, so I can pin a note on the door when I am outside, because it had happened that someone locked the door when I was on deck. And he just teared down one decoration to give me the clip magnet that held it.
