So, Wednesday, Thanksgiving Eve kick-starts the "biggest days of" trifecta. I'm talking about the Biggest Bar night of the year, Biggest Feast of the year, and Biggest Shopping day of the year. Just what mostly every single American lives for, boozing, eating, and spending money. Yayyy.
However, here in Bermuda, I have work tomorrow. Bermuda picks and chooses which holidays to celebrate and American Thanksgiving isn't one of them, but I do get a holiday called Boxing Day. Until a few months ago, I never heard of it, but it's the day after Christmas and something to do with giving gifts to employees after their day of Christmas. UK's version of bonuses. I personally think it means you get in a fight with whoever gave you the worst gift.
While you're all enjoying your couches watching the Lions get run over by the Titans and then suffer again through the Cowboys game, I will be staring into a microscopic picking out zooplankton for half the day. Looks like they've added another game to Thanksgiving too, Eagles vs. Cardinals. Perfect, another 6hrs of post-ESPN coverage force feeding us FatNabb.
You'll be happy to know that I will indeed be eating Turkey and all the fixin's. Our Dining Hall is fixing together a feast. You've gotta understand that there's not too many of Americans here at BIOS. Besides my boss and his family, there are about 4-5 staff members present at BIOS that are American, plus 15 or so Fall Students. Many people are gone on a cruise or off taking vacation time. So besides the dinner, it feels nothing like thanksgiving at all. The only way I'm getting a whiff of all the Turkey day activies is through facebook statuses.
Anyway, things around here are starting to die down severely. A cruise is gone, several staff are vacationing, and the Fall research interns have returned to college. There was a sendoff last night with dinner downtown in Hamilton and I gotta be honest, the city looks pretty nice prepping for Christmas time. I have just found out and scheduled my vacation back to the states for the christmas holidays.
I return Dec. 23rd to Troy. I leave for Bermuda on Jan. 4th.
The next few months should be particularly quiet, though. No more students around and the worst time of year, weather wise, so many Bermudians are off of the Island. Just in general, Bermuda has no major events.
I'm looking at it two ways. I will be bored...I think. But I'm also looking forward to it. The weeks I've been here have resulted in work, fixing myself in, and The Wind/hanging around. One of my main reasons for working in Bermuda was education, but on my own time. There's shit tons of materials for a better understanding of all the work in the marine science field and it will be a great time to do so.
I'm also excited to start getting involved with the Aquarium. I've always wanted to see what working at an Aquarium is like and Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo(BAMZ) is the perfect spot to do so. They've got sharks.
That's all for this post.
Happy Bar Night and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
Cheers,
Doug
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