In the last week the temperature started dropping and with Equinox on Monday the days will rapidly become shorter. The change has snuck up on me, it is like the seasons just switched all of a sudden. It was minus 17 this morning when I went outside, and there was a light dusting of snow…
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A little red ship
This weekend sees the arrival of the little red taxi, a trip home for 19 expeditioners who have been here for between 4 & 18 months and food and fuel for the 14 of us who remain. We have spent the last week pretending to be amateur weather forecasters poring over the daily charts the…
Today I flew to Antarctica
Today I flew to Antarctica, as an understatement it is amazing. I flew with 25 other people from Hobart via an A319 to Wilkins airbase then onto an American Hercules to Whoop Whoop (that’s its name) were a little red helicopter was waiting to ferry us down to Davis Station. Sometime in the next couple…
The final countdown
With two and a bit weeks to go until ‘D’ day a lot has happened. In December I finally met the 12 people that I am going to be living with for the next 10 months. I was so nervous, many sleepless nights about how I was going to start to build the team dynamic…
creating a community
When you are given a brand new team of people to work with it is sometimes hard, they have history, connections, unspoken values and communication pathways all mapped out. You have to negotiate and tread softly until you bed in your power relationships, make the connections that you need and learn who is who. But what if you…
Communication is easier to say then do
Communication is an art form and those people who seem to effortlessly raise and discuss difficult topics while causing minimal angst or offence have always been slightly awe inspiring to me. There are several different types of conversation but I dread most are those conversations that you know you should have, the ones were the outcome is…
Squealing quietly in week one………..
Feels weird that after 2 years waiting I am finally sitting in an office with Station Leader written on the door, I really have never thought that this time would come. I still remember the evening that I rang my now employer and asked if I had been successful, every-one else who had been in our…
Packing (hyperventilation) for Antarctica
This week marks my first week as a Station Leader in Antarctica…………….. only I’m still not quite in the big freezer. I’m sitting in an office waiting for the rest of the team to arrive and impatiently organising all the last minute packing and ordering and starting to mildly hyperventilate at the thought of forgetting something important….
how does your money vibrate?
I was reading a book today and it posed a fantastic question……….. how does your money vibrate? For many years I have struggled with how to make a difference in the world, after all I am only me, nothing I do at a personal level seems to have a huge effect in the scheme of…
Jen Wressell 