Monday, September 18, 2006
Introducing Guest Blogger Numero Uno... Laura Ebel
I had this amazing idea to start recruiting Guest Bloggers for my site so you could learn a little bit more about life on the Ice. So I spread the word and sent out an email to see if some of my contacts would be interested in writing for me. I gave them a list of questions to answer or the option to write an article of their choice. Many positive responses came back so you can look forward to "meeting" some of the different characters of McMurdo.My first response was by Laura Ebel, a cargo handler from Michigan. We flew in on the first flight together and have partied together a few times since. So put your hands together and give a warm welcome to my first Guest Blogger... Miss LAURA EBEL!!!
1. What is your name and how old are you?
Laura Ebel and I turned 22 on the 21st of August/ First day of official work in Mactown
2. Where are you from/where is your storage unit?
East Tawas Michigan. What what!
3. What do you do when you are not working at McMurdo?
Attend school and bartend..as little work as possible.
4. How did you end up in Antarctica?
My daddy. I was crying on the phone about not having any money for school and he was like "why dont you come here and money up?" And in the heat of the moment I said ok. So here I am for a third time trying to make money for school.
5. How many seasons have you done? And what jobs have you had? Why do you keep coming back?
third season, I was a janitor my first and a cargo handler for my second and third. MONEY!
6. What do you do for fun on the Ice?
I like to party. lol. play basketball, workout and hike the trails. My favorite hike is hut point ridge. I also mess around in the ceramic room, needless to say I am not to good at it. Also I have a outdoors bike that I like to take down to scott base, the ride down the hill gets me so high on adrenaline but then I have to walk my bike back up the hill because I cant seem to ride back up.
7. What is your favorite memory from down here?
so many, one was standing outside with my dad durning my first season at winfly and there was no wind, so I un-zipped my red parka and said "wow" looked around "what a NICE day!" It was -30f but the sun was shinning and no wind.
8. What is your least favorite part about working in Antarctica?
Routine, routine, same thing over and over.
9. What is your favorite part about working here?
Cool people I meet and the scenary that leaves you speachless. Knowing I am here supporting cutting edge science that is not done anywhere else in the world.
10. How many toilets do you think I will have cleaned by the time I leave here?
gosh, I know that you will clean the same toilets so are you asking how many different toilets or a totall of toilets throughout the season? thousands of them!! umm in 201-203's there is a totall of 8 toilets in each dorm. so lets say you clean 201 that is 8 times umm... about 157 days is uhhh 1256 just for an 8 toilet dorm. so well over 1000 toilets. Dont know what work center you clean but I know B140 has 3 toilets and 1 urinal and the heavey shop has 3 toilets and 2 urinals...ramble, ramble.
She's included this photo of loading a C-17, a major part of working in Cargo:
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