My last Thoughts

In five days, we will arrive back in Kiel, the home harbor of our Thor Heyerdahl. Five out of 200 days of adventure are left in our Thor life.
That might seem like a small part of the whole journey, but one day on board sometimes feels like a week, but also like an hour, because everything happens at the same time. If you get up at nine o’clock, eat breakfast, clean the ship, and then go on watch duty, the day is almost over. Yet in the evenings, everybody comes together in the library or the mess hall and works on their blog posts, reads books, or plays card games like UNO or Wizard. Then time flies, and someone from Watch 4 will wake me up from what I am doing, because my Watch 1 will soon take over the ship.

I still have not realized that the journey, the adventure, the life on the Thor will end soon. I will return to my “old life”. I am sure that those ten days will feel like five weeks and 24 hours at the same time. Those ten days might be the best days of the journey but will also remind me of being home again, when I will be lonely without my other 49 family members.
However, I have all my family members across Germany and a big picture book in my memories, so I will not forget them. Within the next four weeks after arriving in Kiel, we will have a reunion with all students near Coburg. So new memories are going to be added and refreshed.
It makes me happy to know that the community will last, that we will go traveling, hiking, swimming, making new memories, and having a great time even after our voyage across the Atlantic Ocean has ended. After the arrival, I will know that I have friends all over the country whom I can always visit.

All in all, the community on board – a community that will stay past our arrival in Germany –has offered unique experiences that will stay with me for life and has helped me build friendships for life.