Solidarity – News from Abroad, Day 31 at Anchor – [04/20/20]

So much went on today that I have to do separate entries for all of it.

First, Amras and I officially finished a massive project we’ve been working on – more on that later- but second…

There are things that are small that seem big and things that are big that seem small.

This was one of those little things, that’s much bigger than it at first seems.

Every night at 7:30pm all the ships at anchor in this area sound their whistles. Every night. Without fail. And every night they call on a different crew member to do it. It’s not a lottery or anything, I’m pretty sure it’s just random selection, something as simple as who our cruise director happens to bump into at the right time.

Tonight, I was standing in the cabin getting ready for something completely unrelated when Amras came almost bouncing back into the room.

Please tell me that your camera is charged.

Well..maybe…I mean I think so…I put it away because we weren’t really using it anymore.

Is it charged?

Depends on what you want to do with it but yeah…

Guess what we’re doing?

What…?

We’re sounding the horn tonight. We have five minutes before we have to be on the bridge.

Once on the bridge the one of the officers showed us how the horn worked, showed us which button to push (and it really is just a button) and then counted us down to 7:30. And just like that we were part of the nightly chorus.

Such a small thing. Such a big thing.

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