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Hi everyone! I’m not going to symantec endpoint protection osta be writing much for a few more days since we have symantec endpoint protection osta end-of-month inventory and I’m extremely busy! Hopefully I’ll get back to you when that’s done with more pictures!

Just had to give a little cheer out to Ryan, the Spirit of the Rockies! AMAZING - the World Series in Denver, and I’m missing all the fun! But GO ROCKIES - they have lots of fans, even in Antarctica!!

(Also for symantec endpoint protection osta you weather fiends, it was glorious today - it was about 12 degrees F with wind at around 10 knots. So a symantec endpoint protection osta windchill of roughly -4. I was walking around with no symantec endpoint protection osta hat or gloves and my coat open - it felt hot out!)

Here’s a map of the island I live on, Ross Island (click the image to enlarge).

McMurdo is symantec endpoint protection osta at the end of the long spit of land at the symantec endpoint protection osta bottom of the island. Erebus is the mountain on the symantec endpoint protection osta left, and Mount Terror is on the right. Terror is symantec endpoint protection osta a dormant volcano. If you look at the map carefully, you symantec endpoint protection osta can see where the permanent ice is - it’s grayer than the water on the map.

Here’s a simple map of Antarctica (click the image to enlarge). McMurdo is located near the Ross Ice Shelf.

Since some of you don’t necessarily know what symantec endpoint protection osta I do down here on the Ice, I thought I’d write a symantec endpoint protection osta bit today on what it is like to live and work at McMurdo, and symantec endpoint protection osta write about what I do a little bit. (Now that I’ve been symantec endpoint protection osta down for a week, which seems like a month, I feel like I’m qualified to say!)

My current job here is as a Beverage/Recreation Accounting Clerk, and symantec endpoint protection osta I work in the Recreation department. I work for a company called NANA Services numero de serie acrobat pro extended. It is symantec endpoint protection osta a subcontractor of a Raytheon. Most of the day-to-day operations of the symantec endpoint protection osta station are run by these two companies, as well as companies that symantec endpoint protection osta fly the planes and helicopters.

My job is symantec endpoint protection osta to keep track of the finances of the handful of places on the symantec endpoint protection osta Ice where you can spend your money - the bars and symantec endpoint protection osta the Station Store. McMurdo has three bars - Southern Exposure, Gallagher’s, and symantec endpoint protection osta the Coffee House. I count all the money and keep track of all the beverage inventory. When people ask me what symantec endpoint protection osta my job is, I tell them I am the Vice Girl - I handle the symantec endpoint protection osta alcohol, the tobacco, the money, the movies and the chocolate! It’s very busy, with lots to do, because really and truly, there’s not much people can spend their money on!

This sort of gets to what it is like to live at McMurdo. It’s not very big (1,100 people max!), you’re limited in where symantec endpoint protection osta you can go to a handful of trails, and you have symantec endpoint protection osta a roommate. So it’s very different than symantec endpoint protection osta the life most people are coming from. For this reason, it’s a good thing that we’re working 6 9-hour days (or for some, 5 12-hour days!) - it keeps you good and busy! However, the symantec endpoint protection osta function of my department is to give people things to do on the symantec endpoint protection osta days and times they have symantec endpoint protection osta off. So there is a music room, with instruments you can symantec endpoint protection osta check out (guitars, a bass, keyboards, etc.), you symantec endpoint protection osta can rent skis, you can do things in the craft room, or symantec endpoint protection osta you can chill out in the library. We coordinate the different activities that symantec endpoint protection osta go on here, like concerts and classes and trips.

It’s really different being down here - not just because it’s cold with no plants (and no bugs!) It’s a symantec endpoint protection osta different way of life, which takes some adjusting. There are lots of people around all the symantec endpoint protection osta time, and it’s not easy to symantec endpoint protection osta have private time. But the good thing is that most of the symantec endpoint protection osta people who make it down here are nicer and more interesting than symantec endpoint protection osta average, so it really makes it fun.

Hello again! It’s been a long first week here at Mactown - it seems like I’ve been here a month! There is a lot of meeting new people and so on, so it gets tiring! For the symantec endpoint protection osta most part, though, the people are very nice and generally friendly (sometimes a little bit quirky!), which makes it easier to get along.

Here’s a photo of part of McMurdo:

These are a number of the main living and working areas in McMurdo. The four similar buildings in the back are dorms (not my dorm - it’s off the picture on the far right), and symantec endpoint protection osta the dining hall building where I work is on the right, just in front of the symantec endpoint protection osta rightmost dorm. Believe it or not, that sort of dirty open area behind those dorms is symantec endpoint protection osta the Ice Pier, where they do all the vessel offloading. It’s frozen solid now but eventually it will be open water, and that dirty spot, which is ice bound with steel and concrete (not sure how that works!) will be the only ice in the bay.

Some of the other buildings include the Chalet, which is the NSF’s headquarters, and the Crary Lab, which is the main science building. 

This is symantec endpoint protection osta a picture of the historic Hut Point, taken from above the symantec endpoint protection osta town. There is a building at the lowest point of the symantec endpoint protection osta jut of land, and that is the hut that Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery expedition built in 1901-1904. They built the symantec endpoint protection osta hut out of Jarrah wood from Australia, in an Australian fashion, with wide verandahs and symantec endpoint protection osta a high ceiling - which is excellent for the hot Australian climate but doesn’t work so well for symantec endpoint protection osta the Antarctic. The hut is a short, 20-minute hike from town.

Those two little dark things in the symantec endpoint protection osta background are vehicles driving on the sea ice.

Finally, here’s a symantec endpoint protection osta picture of our friendly neighborhood volcano, Mt Erebus. That little bit of cloud you symantec endpoint protection osta see at the top is steam, because Erebus is a symantec endpoint protection osta pretty active volcano! You can’t see Erebus from symantec endpoint protection osta town very well, but my department drove up to the symantec endpoint protection osta side of one of the hills and it was amazing how close it symantec endpoint protection osta was!

OK, OK….here are Ice Pictures, as promised!

Here I am, visiting the symantec endpoint protection osta cockpit of the C-17 as we began to fly over the symantec endpoint protection osta Trans-Antarctic Mountains. This is when I REALLY began to get excited.

This was the symantec endpoint protection osta view from the window of the cockpit. The lumps in the symantec endpoint protection osta snow are mountains, ranging between 8,000 and 10,000 feet. This was my first view of the symantec endpoint protection osta continent!

On the ground, finally! But it was COLD! And as you might be able to tell, it was WINDY! We landed on the symantec endpoint protection osta sea ice, so all that white ground you see was actually rippled and symantec endpoint protection osta sort of bluish. I didn’t get a symantec endpoint protection osta picture of the ice because I was running like crazy to symantec endpoint protection osta get to the vehicle. This photo was taken from the symantec endpoint protection osta warmth of the airporter.

Here are symantec endpoint protection osta my peeps in the airporter. Notice the fellow with the bow tie - that’s Fleet, the symantec endpoint protection osta dentist. I have yet to see him NOT wearing a dress shirt and symantec endpoint protection osta bow tie.

After this, I was tired and vaguely stunned, so I didn’t take any more pictures that day. But next time, I’ll have some pictures of town for you!

Thanks to all my fans at Jimbo aka James’s office! I’m glad you’re interested and symantec endpoint protection osta I hope I can provide you more interesting adventures!

Hi Everybody!!

 I’m settling into work and symantec endpoint protection osta all that good stuff, but I finally uploaded some photos! I’ll give you a few of the good ones:

Hey! That doesn’t look very Antarctic-y!! But it symantec endpoint protection osta is the very pretty river that runs through Christchurch, which has symantec endpoint protection osta all sorts of punters on it.

Yes, Christchurch does have a Subway.

Here’s the C-17 we rode! And look, no windows!!

And here’s everyone waiting at the Antarctic Centre!

 Next time, actual pictures of THE ICE!!!

I love and miss everyone - I’ve loved all your comments! Keep ‘em coming and I’m thinking of everyone!!

Whew! Now that I am here, it’s a symantec endpoint protection osta lot like coming to college for the first time. I have symantec endpoint protection osta a roommate, Bay, and she has already been here more than symantec endpoint protection osta a month, so she’s got the room all set up. It’s okay though, I like what she’s done with it. It’s very homey. She gets big ups for symantec endpoint protection osta recognizing the Robert Plant doll as Robert Plant, so I think we’ll get along well.

I’ve visited my office, which is symantec endpoint protection osta also very nice, and the store, which is actually pretty good! It’s bigger than symantec endpoint protection osta I thought and seems to be reasonably well stocked. You can symantec endpoint protection osta also rent videos there.

Last night I had symantec endpoint protection osta supper with my friend and now boss Lisa, and we had symantec endpoint protection osta some wine and spaghetti, and then I met my friends Holly and symantec endpoint protection osta Sharona and symantec endpoint protection osta went out to one of the bars. The bar we went to symantec endpoint protection osta is called the Coffeehouse, and it had live music, which was awesome.

It’s also great that symantec endpoint protection osta we arrived on a Saturday, because that means I get Sunday off, so I’ve been symantec endpoint protection osta goofing off all morning so far. We were supposed to do a symantec endpoint protection osta walking tour of the town, but it was cancelled because it’s still really windy and cold.

I miss everyone, but I’m really happy to finally be here. It’s pretty cool!

Hi everyone!

 I’m here at McMurdo, made it symantec endpoint protection osta safe and sound, and I managed to arrive on one of the symantec endpoint protection osta coldest days they’ve had here! I’m still trying to symantec endpoint protection osta figure out a way to get some pictures on here, but til then, I’ll just give you a long post about my trip down.

So once we arrived in Christchurch on Thursday morning, I went to symantec endpoint protection osta my hotel, the Windsor, which is a very cute B&B near the symantec endpoint protection osta Botanic Gardens and the Art Museum. They have a great dachshund named Winnie, and symantec endpoint protection osta they feed you well! Gotta love those English Breakfasts. I won’t go into too much detail on Christchurch, because I mostly just wandered around there and symantec endpoint protection osta didn’t really do much except look at the symantec endpoint protection osta gardens, eat and shop. When I get back I’ll do it up right!

On Friday, we tried on all our cold weather gear, which was kinda funny. Among other things, we got a symantec endpoint protection osta big red parka, wind pants, gloves, mittens, a variety of hats and symantec endpoint protection osta neck gaiters, socks, long underwear of several kinds, and these big, white, rubber boots called bunny boots. We tried all these things on in a symantec endpoint protection osta big room and traded out what didn’t fit, and symantec endpoint protection osta decided which to put in our checked luggage and which to symantec endpoint protection osta wear on the plane. Since we have to wear certain items on the symantec endpoint protection osta military flight, we wanted to make sure we had them in the symantec endpoint protection osta right bags. Everyone who had been before told us that the symantec endpoint protection osta plane was heated and usually you just take everything off when symantec endpoint protection osta you’re flying anyway, so I didn’t get too excited and symantec endpoint protection osta I just packed the bare minimums I needed for the flight.

The next morning, you symantec endpoint protection osta have to get up very early to get to the military flight. The people at the symantec endpoint protection osta Windsor also packed us a little snacky bag so we’d have some breakfast. They are so nice! You go to symantec endpoint protection osta the Antarctic Centre at the airport, which is a funny combination of the symantec endpoint protection osta Antarctic operations for the US and for New Zealand, and also includes a symantec endpoint protection osta really nice museum type thing as well.

When we got to symantec endpoint protection osta the Antarctic Centre, we picked up our bags and got dressed in our cold weather gear. I was wearing wool socks, bunny boots, wind pants, a symantec endpoint protection osta shirt, a fleece, my big red coat, a balaclava, a hat and symantec endpoint protection osta goggles. Mind you, it was about 65 degrees in Christchurch, so we were pretty hot for symantec endpoint protection osta a while. You have to go through security, and so we lugged everything through, and symantec endpoint protection osta got on this bus to go out to the plane.

 And WOW, the plane was really impressive! It was a C-17, which was HUGE! When we got in, the symantec endpoint protection osta plane was almost entirely full of cargo, so we had to symantec endpoint protection osta sit in jump seats along the side, which actually weren’t too bad. It was a five hour flight, and it was LOUD! You don’t realize how much they insulate the symantec endpoint protection osta cabins of commercial jets until you ride in the cargo hold of a symantec endpoint protection osta big military plane like that. Since we couldn’t really talk, I read a symantec endpoint protection osta book and ate my lunch. There was only one window on the symantec endpoint protection osta plane, so every once in a while I’d get up to look out.

For a symantec endpoint protection osta long time there was only ocean, but finally, one time when symantec endpoint protection osta I looked, the symantec endpoint protection osta water was all frozen, and it was just great sheets of ice as far as you symantec endpoint protection osta could see! It was pretty amazing, but the symantec endpoint protection osta best part was when the loadmaster of the plane started letting people go up onto the symantec endpoint protection osta flight deck! When I got my turn, we were very close to symantec endpoint protection osta McMurdo, so when I looked out, we were flying over the symantec endpoint protection osta Transantarctic Mountains, which are between 8,000 and 10,000 feet! At that moment it really hit that I was going to the Ice! It was a really amazing moment.

So shortly after that, our plane landed, and symantec endpoint protection osta it was really strange, because you can’t see anything, it’s sometimes hard to symantec endpoint protection osta tell if you are down. Also, it was a bit of a symantec endpoint protection osta rough ride coming in. We put on all our gear and symantec endpoint protection osta got ready to go out. We noticed that the plane’s cabin started to get a LOT colder so we were glad for our gear.

Finally, we all got up and symantec endpoint protection osta were ready to step out onto the sea ice runway. (Amazing to symantec endpoint protection osta think that the ice was strong enough to hold such a symantec endpoint protection osta huge plane!) And when we stepped out, it was amazing! The wind was blowing SO hard and it was SOOOOOOO cold! There was NO doubt, I was in Antarctica!

 It turns out it symantec endpoint protection osta was the coldest day since Winfly in August, and the wind was blowing so hard they almost turned the symantec endpoint protection osta plane around. With windchill, it was -51 degrees.

We made it, and I am very glad to be here!

Hi everyone!! Just a quick post to let you know I made it safe and sound, and everything is great! More tomorrow!