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09.11.09
How to handle a charger
Today we have our first of many PodCasts from the team, this one left by Kylie. You can listen to it on the little player displayed below but first, let's hear from Reena...
Reena (India) writes:
Pretty amazing how just a little bit of mishandling can ruin a charger. Fragile is the word when handling such gizmos.
Its staggering just how much stuff is being sorted each day and how much of it needs re-sorting the next. We started the day with communications equipment (hence the charger mishap). Then we packed the ration bags for dinners and re-packed the ration bags for daytime. We also tried loading some sledges with the gear to see how it fits and in the evening we had a most enlightening lecture on cold injuries by John, the very experianced Doctor from ALE .
Busy.
I decided it was time to change the hair style I´ve had since the time i was born.
In the middle of all this husble and bustle, I took some time out and had a hair cut. The lady at the salon could not speak English and I could not speak Spanish but we managed by sign language . I feel that it is very convienient to have short hair for the expedition and, going by the great comments I got from my team mates, I feel highly satisfied.
Kylie (New Zealand)'s PodCast:
Did the recording sound a bit funny at the end there? Kylie's calling from a satellite phone which actually works better in open spaces, like Antarctica, than built up areas, like Chile. But, even away from the buildings it's something we'll have to get used. They have some great technology with them but they are still a long way from mobile phone masts and satellite dishes so signal will never be 100% - Tim, UK Support
Kylie's PodCast in writing:
I'm in O'Higgins Road, Punta Arenas, at La Cencia Guest House.
Today, the distance we've covered may not have been significant as far as kilometres are concerned, but we've managed to do a lot of organizing of our food. We've been portioning it into bags and it's covering the whole floor of the guest house.
As for health and morale, well, ours is mostly good. We're trying to shake off a few colds before we head down to the ice. The tasks we've been doing for the last couple of days have been quite mundane and monotonous. And, even though we've been going from first thing in the morning until 10:ten at night or later, morale is generally pretty good.