Tuesday, March 2, 2010

March 2, 2010
BEST 2010 Science Deployment
We have an English Professor aboard for the duration of the deployment teaching two English classes. We had our second day of Speech class this morning. Classes are also held in the afternoon and evening so you can work them around your watch schedule. I am enjoying the format, in which we divide the chapter into sections and each read a section and then give a summary in front of the class. This makes for getting a lot more information in, and also a lot more entertaining listening to the different presentation styles. After class it was down into the depths of the bilge for some of deck force. Diesel 1 needed a cleaning and deck force has been working on getting all the oil and water sloshing around beneath the engines cleaned up. It reminds me of a children’s jungle gym crawling around down there. You have to wiggle around this pipe and half roll half slide down that one, and then you have to make sure you didn’t drop any of the rags you were trying to carry! I think I did just as much cleaning by sliding and slithering around down there, than I did with actual rags.
~SN Klineburger

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