Seglingsloggen 23/1
Teachers Log 2012-01-23
5 nM southeast of Santa Cruz de Tenirife speed 5 knots
Destinaion La Gomera
Yesterday I flew with 23 students from Marina läroverket to the south airport in Teneriffa. The students behaved excelent and we landed on schedule. After 1 hour by bus we arrived to the port and embarked Älva. Tony hade made lunch for and everything was perfect. The rest of the class and the english crew arrived and after som information and presentation of the crew the four watchteams where installed in there cabins.After dinner evrybody went out to see the town.
The nigtwatch did a good job and after a silent night we woke up for a buzy day. Normal morningroutines and securityeducations led by the crew. The bus arrived after lunch for a five hours excursion to Teide, the famous vulcano. Everything went well and we arrived to Älva in time for dinner.
When I wright this we are sailing throw the night for a nice breeze. The deckwatch steer the boat, some students are watching a film, other play cards and some try to sleep. The mood onbord is very good and this journey has started excelent.
// Bengt
Date: 23rd January
Time: 21:03
Location: just off the coast of Tenerife
Speed; almost 5 knots
Course: Southwest of Santa Cruz
Estimated time of arrival at next port: tomorrow at 14:00
Weather: a little cloudy with a light breeze
Today we woke up at 7:15 and had breakfast which was prepared by the Alpha team, this consisted of cheese, ham, eggs, bread and cereal. after breakfast, us English students were placed into teams, either Alpha, Bravo, Charlie or Delta.
This was followed by cleaning the boat, and food preparation. We then had a safety talk and a familiarization session, where we learned different things about the boat and what we should do in an emergency, all the students had to get into the survival suits, we looked like spacemen in our big orange suits. This was followed by dinner which was prepared by the Alpha team and chef Tony
We had an excursion to the Volcano, Mount Teide, it took us an hour and a half to get there and we then had some time to explore the mountains, which offered breathtaking views and opportunities for photos.
We returned to the harbor and had dinner which was beef, potatoes and salad this was followed by a talk on when we were going to leave port. At around 19.00 hours we set sail with all four teams pitching in to open up the sails. The Alpha and Delta team opened up the jibs and missle sail, once set up different individuals took to doing different things such as part of the Delta team taking up watch and Ryan, Gustaf, Jamie and William wrote this log.
PS Within the North Liverpool Academy we have a system which includes gems (keys for success) for different aspects of life, these include problem solving, determination, teamwork, creativity along with two others, today we believe we have demonstrated three of these gems which have been team work as we have worked alongside each other both English and Swedish students, we have also demonstrated determination as we have wanted to succeed at the tasks that have been set for us. The last gem we believe we have demonstrated is problem solving as we have solved the problems we experienced in our task along with beginning to solve the problem of the language barrier between the two nationalities.
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