We finally got a solid day of sunshine today! It was great to sit on the fantail of the ship and enjoy some Vitamin D for awhile, it's still a bit cold but hopefully once we get inland it will warm up. We are just a few days away from Busan, South Korea, our next port. We are due to arrive on Friday at 0700 (Thursday in the US) and my division will be released for liberty at 0800...I cannot wait to see what S. Korea is like and experience a new culture! Today was spent doing more classwork, in the morning we went over First Aid and back boarding, boring stuff seeing as I have done it a million times but good to refresh on. In the afternoon we did more chart work with dead reckoning and plotting. I am learning a lot of new tricks and tips for chart use and am excited to put these skills to use on board the family boat this summer. Tomorrow is the last classroom day and then we move to practical training which includes line handling, knots, splicing and creating our own canvas sea bag. The food today was sub par, and we had a thanksgiving dinner tonight (for no apparent reason) after dinner I was able to get to the gym and it felt great! I got to talk to Krysta for a good 30 minutes today and it was nice to catch up, I also talked to Mom and Dad for a short time (my calling card was running low) it was great to hear their voice and weird to be in such a different time zone as they are. We switch back yet another hour tonight so we will be 7 hours behind and a day ahead of Pacific time. We are expecting to see land tomorrow as we follow the Japan coast south to make our entrance towards S. Korea.
Till Next Time,
V/R,
CDT Jonathan Anderson
Squad Leader, Division 6 MT
Corps of Cadets
California Maritime Academy
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