by Bernadette Nason | May 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
First notable thing: the honeymoon period is over. I no longer like the food, I complain about lessons, and don’t even attempt P.E. The loudspeaker bell annoys me, I don’t enjoy the film, I just want to go to the dance. And lo! A stereotypical teenager...
by Bernadette Nason | May 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
Hurrah! Day 4, we arrive somewhere! My memory of this day is quite clear yet the log is surprisingly bland. This is called “lying by omission.” I’ve left out that on the main street, my group of five uniformed schoolgirls was stopped by a group...
by Bernadette Nason | May 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
Obviously the academic powers-that-be on board expected us to do school work as usual, (pleased to see I enjoyed the lectures) and deck games were a regular event (not sure about them.) There was a fun fair? On an educational cruise? What?! I picture big wheels,...
by Bernadette Nason | May 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Wednesday 2 May 2012 S.S. UGANDA Cruise Personal Log, Second Day Riveting stuff this. Please note the Navigational Log. No idea where the details came from; no recollection of these facts. I omitted to write that, in the course of this day, the weather got so bad,...
by Bernadette Nason | May 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
I’m finally working through personal papers brought to the US after the 2007 sale of our family home. I recently shared Mum’s first letter to me when I was on a school cruise around the Mediterranean. I’ve now found my log book which we were...
by Bernadette Nason | Apr 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
I have three cats: two old black/whites that live mostly on the back porch and one fluffy little grey called Gris-gris, a name with voodoo connotations, meaning literally grey-grey (or in American, gray-gray). While Doobey and Minx, the B&Ws, are strays,...
