What a crazy past few days it has been out here on the high seas. I started classroom rotation on day 10 and have been enjoying it. In the mornings we go over rules of the road and communications and then in the afternoon we go up to the navigation lab and learn chart plotting. Chart plotting has been a blast and learning all the tricks to using the triangles and compass have been fun. It's been 08-1600 days and has been nice to relax after class. I went to sleep at 1900 the past two nights and am still tired, something about being out here with the rolling makes me sleep forever. We had our first man-overboard drill today, and my position was lookout on the bridge, so whenever someone goes over myself and 5 other cadets are lookouts on the bridge wings. I guess we are a week out until Korea which means like 4-5 days until we see land, everyone is excited and ready to get off the ship. The food is getting worse, they have fallen into the chicken and rice mode and that is never a good thing. Updates have been slacking because I have been falling asleep so early. Nothing interesting for the next few days, two more days of classroom and then it's on to practical training. We are currently 18 hours ahead of Pacific time. Love you all!
V/R,
CDT Jonathan Anderson
Squad Leader, Division 6 MT
Corps of Cadets
California Maritime Academy
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