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Bucking Warrior
By Lesley, assistant cook. 9 April. Well folks, this is
the meanest horse I've ever been on! The Warrior is charging
through the Atlantic like crazy and we are hitting the waves
head on. That means that we nose dive and tail up every
five seconds. Sometimes it feels like we will never get
our nose out of the water and sometimes like our tail will
never come out of the sky.
Now, even a mad, unbroken horse will give up bucking after,
what…four hours tops? The bucking Warrior has been
keeping this up for the last 24 hours and doesn't even look
tired.
OK, so now we are in the Atlantic, we sorta figured that
the waves would be bigger than the Mediterranean, but this
is ridiculous.
Mind you, standing on the bridge deck at the stern of the
ship is great fun. You hold on to the engine hatch and then
stare through the bridge windows at the bow and wait for
'the big one'. When that comes, which it does at regular
intervals, you see the bow of the ship completely disappear
into the sea, and you are much much higher as the stern
goes up into the air. A few milliseconds later the bow flies
up and you go down. Think about a huge roller coaster (I'm
back to Disney World again) and then wonder what it would
be like to be on it for 24 hours!
Cooking is great fun too. I have to wedge myself between
the sink unit and the cupboard, bend my knees to keep my
balance and then continue to wash and chop up a ton of fresh
parsley to put into little pots and freeze. Luckily my knees
are quite bouncy and I haven't stabbed myself or emptied
the barrel of parsley over my head. But then I haven't finished
the job yet and anything could happen.
Catcha later
Les
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