first sight of Indonesia 
Yesterday for lunch, they served polenta with some meat. I got my own bowl of polenta and said I would continue in the evening and today I also took it for breakfast and still there is more in the bowl than I can eat for a meal. Do I save food by this? I am not sure, whether they will cook less when I tell them I will not eat the next food or just through away more of that instead of the polenta. It is a lose/lose situation, but for me it is not the same, because I see this polenta and if I give back the rest for disposal, it is my active deed although it sums up to the same and maybe I even could prevent more precious food from wasting, if I let the polenta go?
Another example for wasting are the tissues they use as napkins. The are at least 8x bigger than necessary and most of the people use it just once and then dip it in the food they want to waste. I keep mine for several later usage, but I don’t feel good or better, I feel helpless. Meanwhile, they burn one ton of fuel in 15-20min, that is 50-65l every minute. But the big wastage (or is it usage? – at least it is the most efficient way of transport, but of what?? Should all those things be transported across the planet?) doesn’t justify the multiple small ones.
In the evening, I went down with some empty boxes/containers to fill in surplus food, because I want to eat it in Singapore. Still I wonder if the messman understands at all what I am worried about. Maybe it is just a matter of our poor English.
After dinner, I asked the captain for this internet connection of 100MB for 10$. I didn’t want it so far, because I was shure, something on the PC would eat up my data within minutes. But now I wanted to know how it is and I wanted to upload my diary texts. It took him and me a while to make it run, partly, because the connection is not stable and you cannot tell if everything is done right, when the problem is somewhere else. But then it worked, and you could see the MB drip down without active up- or download. So, I tried to be fast and only opened one email, of “my” cargo ship agency. In Adelaide I had asked, if it is possible for the next ship to ask to store also muesli when the fill up their storage. I also had told them about the situation of food waste and where I could address my concerns.
Today, the captain had asked me for the bill of the muesli that I had bought in Fremantle (I didn’t have it anymore).
And after this email things go together: The lady in the agency apparently had taken and forwarded my question to the company as a complaint and they had addressed it to the captain. I will explain to him tomorrow, what was my request about. Maybe this is a good occasion to explain something about food waste.
