Well i've decided to keep a blog for the next 6 months while im here in the Falklands, maybe to keep me sane or maybe to look back on it and laugh. I'll try and write something every day but i might have to upload it every 3 days or so.
So i'll begin, I flew at around 12.10pm on the 14th of april. It was a really long flight, at around 8 hours we landed in Assention islands, the heat was quite intense when we got off the plane very humid indeed. my jeans were instantly burning my legs lol very strange. Well we were stopping over for 90 minutes while some people got off and the plane was refueled.
We re-borded and flew on for another 8 hours or so, Somehow it took around 19 hours in the end not sure how that works but it did. I got off the plane and looked at my new home for the next 6 months, windy, coldish and bleak.
Well i waited there for about 20 minutes and saw various people get picked up. Talked to a few people and eventually got through to the kitchen and found out that i wasnt due till tuesday and they didnt know i was there, Got picked up and went to the kitchen, met people and got taken to my room, its alot bigger than i though it would be but you can still tell that its army, strange curtains that must be cheap cos no-one else would want them. Carpet that doesnt quite know what it wants to be, thin pile carpet or lino and old wooden furniture that should have been skipped long ago.
I was in work the next day on lates, which wasnt too bad as i was still on uk time. It was a long shift but thats only because in used to sitting around most of the day drinking brews in the mess. Next day i was on earlies wich was ok, i was still on uk time so 4.30am felt like 8.30am. Finished at around 12 or 1ish cant remember.
Days have started getting easier, there still feeling long but i'll get back into it.
There seems to be an extreme shortage of knifes in the kitchen, or to put it bluntly(mind the pun) knifes that are shapt, i seriouls dont know how that kitchen had got along for so long. Some of the food that ive seen getting delivered is shocking, a fair bit sits around on container ships for six weeks or so before it arives here, meaning mold and growth, saw a box of oranges and atleast half were green with mold. Box of potates that had started growing quite a bit. Eggs that had gone out of date in february, some were fury.
Been on earlies for the past 3 days, fun times dont mind it too much really as it means i can chill in the afternoon. Today(19th) there was suposed to be a parade of sorts at around 6 or 7 am. It comes over the tanoys and you have to stop what your doing, get changed and get your kit and go. It didnt happen, i was glad because i didnt really know anything about it, i hadnt packed kit for it and i didnt even have half of the kit needed yet.
8am came around and guess what, the sodding tanoy went off. Not happy at all, i was told that the excercise can last anywhere from 10minutes to 3 days, well we just sat in a room for 2 hours, then i had to go back to work, piss take, who ever thinks of this stuff is a turd.
Well that me for the day, ive finished my shift and im sat on my bed waiting for my washing. Bored of this place already. Same shit, endless cycle......
Mood - Fuck this i want to be a pirate!
Song in my head - Marina and the dimonds-im not a robot
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