En route to Fortaleza, Brazil- 3rd day at sea
26 November2007- Monday
3rd of 4 days at sea- en route to Fortaleza, Brazil
Have really gotten spoiled by this "at sea" routine- really relaxing. Highlight of the morning was Dr Keesal's talk on "will Canada split into 2 countries?" He started off by pointing out that the world is tending to split into more and more countries and pointed out Yugoslavia- which is now Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Slovenia and status of Kosovo? USSR is now fragmented with all the Stans splitting off along with Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, etc. He went through the various referendums that were held in Canada and how the vote went and it seems to be almost 50-50 but wasn't so in the past. Apparently the French speakers education was different and Charles De Gaulle's statement about Quebec being part of France didn't help. Education has improved for the French speakers and there are more job opportunities so Dr Keesal doesn't think it'll happen- The Canadian couple Jim and Alvah say they bet it does and good riddance. They live in Ottawa and I didn't realize until recently that the reason the Canadian capital is there is because it lies on the border of English and French speaking Canada. Lunch with Bill and Rosemary again and have the usual chit- chat, Rosemary well informed on ship happenings and she's the one who told me that they removed a woman by litter and she had an IV at Cape Verde. At dinner last night someone mentioned a guy with a fat red leg at shuffleboard that they urged to see the doctor and he's now in bed with injections (DVT versus cellulitis?) Also at dinner Ellen pointed out that informers had told her I wrote the note on her place card. We're still friends and she offered to share her wine with me. She also had people guess her age and bragged about retiring at 62 this year- could have fooled me- I thought she was in her 40s. Entertainment tonight was a pinch hitter for the comedian who missed the ship. he is on of the singers with the Marco Polo Company- a young kid from Iowa who must have trained on Broadway because you can understand every word he sings, but not much of a voice. Good show but I think I'll skip the Filipino crew show because they don't do it until after they finish work- 1030pm and that's past my bedtime.
3rd of 4 days at sea- en route to Fortaleza, Brazil
Have really gotten spoiled by this "at sea" routine- really relaxing. Highlight of the morning was Dr Keesal's talk on "will Canada split into 2 countries?" He started off by pointing out that the world is tending to split into more and more countries and pointed out Yugoslavia- which is now Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Slovenia and status of Kosovo? USSR is now fragmented with all the Stans splitting off along with Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, etc. He went through the various referendums that were held in Canada and how the vote went and it seems to be almost 50-50 but wasn't so in the past. Apparently the French speakers education was different and Charles De Gaulle's statement about Quebec being part of France didn't help. Education has improved for the French speakers and there are more job opportunities so Dr Keesal doesn't think it'll happen- The Canadian couple Jim and Alvah say they bet it does and good riddance. They live in Ottawa and I didn't realize until recently that the reason the Canadian capital is there is because it lies on the border of English and French speaking Canada. Lunch with Bill and Rosemary again and have the usual chit- chat, Rosemary well informed on ship happenings and she's the one who told me that they removed a woman by litter and she had an IV at Cape Verde. At dinner last night someone mentioned a guy with a fat red leg at shuffleboard that they urged to see the doctor and he's now in bed with injections (DVT versus cellulitis?) Also at dinner Ellen pointed out that informers had told her I wrote the note on her place card. We're still friends and she offered to share her wine with me. She also had people guess her age and bragged about retiring at 62 this year- could have fooled me- I thought she was in her 40s. Entertainment tonight was a pinch hitter for the comedian who missed the ship. he is on of the singers with the Marco Polo Company- a young kid from Iowa who must have trained on Broadway because you can understand every word he sings, but not much of a voice. Good show but I think I'll skip the Filipino crew show because they don't do it until after they finish work- 1030pm and that's past my bedtime.
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