Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful day yesterday and that it continues on to the New Year. This was my first Christmas not spent surrounded by family, though my new group of friends here have become pretty close and sometimes say that we are family, it’s not quite the same. I did get to Skype with my family back in Minnesota on Christmas Eve. They showed me the gifts that they had opened and the house all decorated for the holidays. It was wonderful to see them again. Later that night, a friend and I went to the midnight mass at a Catholic cathedral downtown. Those two events were what defined Christmas for me. Otherwise it seemed like a pretty normal night with everyone hanging out by the fire with good food, drink, and conversation. And ugly Christmas sweaters. I guess that’s not usually part of a normal night by the fire.
Training class is finished, and everyone in my class passed! We are now certified trainee observers. That would sound a whole lot more impressive without the word ‘trainee’ left in there. Trainee status basically means that we can only be assigned to ships that depart from and make their offloads to Dutch Harbor.
The first batch of people from my class actually flew out to Dutch this morning. The apartment is down from seven inhabitants to three; it feels so quiet and empty compared to before. I wish them all a safe flight and hope they get good boat assignments! Sadly, I don’t leave for Dutch until January 10th, a whole two weeks away! In the meantime, my savings account is slowly melting away. Just a little bit disappointed, but I can be patient.
While I’m waiting to fly out, I expect there won’t be much in the way of excitement to write about here. Just normal everyday life in Anchorage, which might be worthy of a blog post, now that I think about it. Life here is a bit different than anywhere else that I have lived in. So there’s at least one more blog post before I head out, though there will most likely be more than that. Anyways, I think that’s all for now. Happy holidays everyone.
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