Another day on Amistad.  I’m actually starting to miss the students and crew in the other watches—when the ship runs 24 hours, the watches all seem to drift into their own schedules.  I’m glad we have meals and classtime with the other watches because otherwise I would never really see them—if one watch is awake another is probably tired and sleeping and the third is getting a little work done before coming on watch. 

After living with the other students 24/7 for two weeks back in Mystic and then living with them and all the crew for weeks dockside in CT and Nova Scotia, it is really strange and a little lonely not seeing them as much.  I’m glad Saphra is back on watch now (she’s been back for days)—when she was down and out for a while with her teeth I was the only student on A watch, and as cool as the crew is I was feeling a little cut off from everyone else.
My presentation today with Seth, Kent and Newman went well, and we saw more dolphins off the bow.  We’ve altered course to avoid some weather to the north and are now getting closer to the Azores. The sun has been rising around 0300 or 0330 so tonight we’re switching time zones.  As soon as I get off watch at 2300 it becomes midnight…unfortunately that means I lose an hour of sleep, but I feel like in this environment I won’t notice it nearly as much as I would back home since the watch schedule rotates anyway.  Time to wrap up watch and then head to bed…
 

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