"But what," badgers a relentless voice, "exactly are you doing out here? What are you accomplishing? What are you getting out of it? And what, oh especially what are you going to do with your life?"

The voice usually stops me. Knocks me down, kicks sand in my face. But this time, finally, I tell the voice to shut up. It's a stupid question, what are you going to do with your life. Setting out to do something with your life is like sitting down to eat a moose. Nobody ever did anything succussfully with their life. Instead they did something with their day. Each day.

Sunrise is birth. Sleep is death. Each day is your life.

Let the moose run. Eat some blueberries.
- Douglas Wood

Thursday, December 9, 2010

On the boat!

Turns out that I have indeed made it upon the cargo ship.

I'm the only passenger! But there are some nice german guys around my age that I'm hanging out with.

There are also many Phillipino guys that are really nice and fun.

There's also not one but TWO guitars. I've been practising and my fingers hurt.

AND there is a PING PONG table.

I've been doing yoga everyday and trying not to eat too much: there is so much really delicious food on board.

The sea has been beautiful though I haven't really been feeling a deep conection with it as I have in past experiences. (Accept)

I saw some flying fish!

It's starting to get cold so I won't be able to hangout for so long outside.

One of the guys, Hans, gave me a tour of the engine which was pretty noisey, big, and hot. The pistons are about twice my height.

Today we will arrive to Japan but it doesn't appear that I will be allowed to go ashore. However, I can see a really big volcanoe from the ship:)

I was amazed at how much stuff get's moved around the world by cargo ship. Wow. The ship yards are huge with thousands of containers and in China it took them 24 hours non-stop to unload and reload the ship, using four differenent cranes.

The boat is currently about a day behind schedule which means I may not have much time in Prince Rupert but I should still be able to catch my bus which leaves the night of the 17th and arrives the night of the 18th to Summerland!

It's been interesting, boring,fun, exciting, calm, smokey, noisey, quiet, cold, hot, windy, and restful so far.

I'll see what ten days of nothing but ocean feels like.

Acceptance,

Love,


Kelly

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  1. un_dimancheDecember 14, 2010 at 8:59 PM

    I'm really happy about your experience.
    Take a time for you and the ocean, waooo =)
    I don't know when you will arrive but I follow you on the blog as I were the white rabbit
    Big hug
    Sophie

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