WEEK 2
Sorry It has been a while since you last heard from me. I have been so busy working and working. Life here at the south pole is an adventure every day. After arriving here at such an intense climate, it takes the body a long while to adjust. The elevation actually changes daily ( well the pressure does) so some days it feels as if we are at around 11,000 ft and the next day only 10,500. So that is an adjustment in itself. It actually takes around 2 weeks to acclimate and around 6 weeks to feel... well normal!
There are so many different things going on down here all the time, my job is to help Chantel as a General Assistant is to help and support everything from construction, plumbing, electrical work, putting up wind turbines to shoveling items out of the "storage" for science projects. So everyday is something new! It's a great place to work considering we make money and they feed and house us, we make tons of new friends and have the experience of a lifetime!!
Chantel was just surprised last week with a winter contract, so, I might be staying here for a while longer. Chantel gets to stay for a whole year!!! I am so excited! She will be stationed at McMurdo station for the winter season and will be working on all sorts of new projects over the next months!
My adventures I recently found out have just begun. I would LOVE to answer any of your questions.
Teddy and Chantel driving the shuttle around station, I was on shuttle duty for a week taking people from site to site, all the different places, what fun!
Teddy with one of our local South Pole fire fighters!
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