Slept well, but first time awake at 3:30, getting up at 5:30.
Want to achieve some bodily goals, mostly regarding mobility for the “Asian squat” (I tend to fall back, because lack of flexibility in my lower legs) and I would like to be able to do “pistol squats” (=single leg squats). For that, maybe 10 days is not enough.
And I want to get the video cutting up-to-date. This mainly depends on the movie maker, if I must cope with crashes all the time, I lose too much time.
At 7, breakfast starts. I got a Muesli for the first time since Bulgaria, ? it I was happy to see the remaining vegetables of dinner in the omelette. Also, the fish from yesterday evening was offered again in another form. Maybe this is the cook’s personal philosophy or the company’s, or it just happened once – I will see.
After breakfast, I got a call to come down to the office. The security officer explained me some rules and I had to fill in a form, normally a test sheet for new members of the crew.
I now should know the general alarm signal ( . . . . . . . ____), the fire alarm signal (___ ___) and the abandon ship signal (. ___ : ___), I should know what to do in case of fire alarm or man over board alarm (“as per master’s order”), I should find the fire extinguishers, alarm signal, life boats,
life jackets or immersion suit and I learned how to take that on and off. (hard to do alone!)
Then, he showed me around on a-deck, that is under the containers. We went to the nose of the ship, I saw the chain of the anchor, each chain link more than half a meter. I could look through a window down to the engine and feel the heavy storm of the exhaust.
Maybe, I can repeat that tour to take some pictures.
Next was a call to the bridge to show my documents and forms and to hand out my passport and vaccination certificate.
I could get a short insight into their work.
Then I continued my own editing work that sometimes was without problems for a while and then again one crash came after the other.
Before lunch, I made a “Results” workout with 4x (100 Jumping jacks +15 Flatout Burpees+15 Pike push-ups + 20 Jump squats + 60 low plank + 60 high planks) (3rd and 4th time only 10 Pike push-ups and 45’’ planks).
It was exhausting and made me a bit sad, because it showed me how much fitness I have lost during a bike trip that at the same time must have improved my fitness level. But I remember how hard it was when I started to use this app.
I had lunch with the crew and a little small talk.
They had not had good information what was going on with me yesterday and it was good to have an opportunity to explain that I could not have done anything to be on board faster.
Working with moviemaker was very annoying. Sometimes, clips in the movie were moved to trash while I was working, sometimes the shortcut for cutting crashes the program down or deletes parts, I have to restart multiple times and so on. Maybe it is faster to get used to a more complex program than to try to handle those problems?
Maybe in some days!
Today I had to learn how to use it. Some functions are nearly as fast as movie maker, others tedious. Inserting other clips is such an example. They go to the end of the track and it is laborious to get it on the right place.
By mistake, in the end I had several copies of some clips and then everything was in a mess. I had to give up without having completed one single day.
The problem is that I have two kinds of clips most of the time, from the camera those selfie movies and from gopro the street clips. And the time setting is not the same. So, I better should watch all the clips before, to set up the correct sequence before starting editing.
Tomorrow I will try that with the clips of another day.
I am glad that in Iran I had made less selfie videos in the course of the time, and hope that I will be faster in the next days…
every day, I made a screenshot of the progress
two of the last Islands before being surrounded by much water for some days
I promise – not too many sun sets and cloud formations will follow!
…and also pics like that – containers and ship details 🙂 But this was my environment and I liked it!