March
5, 2013
Back at sea, and back to the normal routine. For the first time, this place feels
like home. Even just sitting on
the back deck for breakfast felt like it used to feel on normal days waking up
and sitting in our dining room.
Sans the cat, of course.
Matt and I are going to be leaving the ship for
three weeks to go along with Prakti to their home office in India, a
clean-burning stove conference in Cambodia, then meet the ship back in South
Africa on March 25. I feel excited
because we leave tomorrow to fly to Chennai from the port in Kochi, and I’m
looking forward to the new adventure of these countries I’ve never been in, but
at the same time there’s a little bit of sadness because I’m going to miss our
new home. I’m going to miss the
rest of our crew and the Unreasonable at Sea entrepreneurs and all of the
learning partners that we’ve become friends with.
Things have changed so much since we embarked two
months ago. People have gotten on
the ship and others have unexpectedly gotten off. Our crew has remained solid with the occasional (and normal)
ups and downs. It’s been awesome
to work with such a great crew of awesome personalities, but also with
ridiculous amounts of talent. I’d
hire these guys and gals any day.
There’s been a bacterial bug going around the ship
that people picked up in Myanmar, so there are entertaining signs all over the
ship reminding us to wash our hands.
We’ve had a man down on our team, but it sounds like he’s doing better
today.
I’m entertained by the fact that people always talk
about travel and how much they love trying the new foods, but if you’re trying
new foods, you’re bound to wind up with a new friend in your gut. It’s comforting that we’re all in the
same boat (so to speak) because people are very understanding when you have to run
out of the room in the middle of a conversation. We had an entertaining moment where we all mimicked the
attempts to look dignified while hurrying to take care of urgent business. I wish I had photos.
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