1 day to go!!!

No internet for at least 8 days, no phonecalls for 13 months and here I will live for 9 days!!!
Good morning Horizont!!! :D

My home for 9 days, Horyzont 2. (photo: http://www.am.gdynia.pl/)

7 days to go!!!

Shampoos and vasaline creams..

Mr Molten in the foreground

Sometimes, when I think where I will be in 10 days I get little chills on my back!! Maybe I will be admiring the dutch sea windparks, maybe adoring the bridges, maybe looking at first cachalots (maybe vomiting all the time?? who knows;) ) Last night I could not sleep since I was thinking if I had prepared all necessary stuff. 
Probably not... and it worries me;)

Many things will be for sure unpredictable. Many predictable, even if they seem to be unpredictable. Our Robert got temporary tooth fillings for our expedition.. Sharing our information we have listed all european anti-vomiting drugs. I feel it in my bones that it will be shakeing on the Horyzont II . Therefore, I try to carefully pack my things. To avoid chemical soup in my baggage, shampoos and other creams I have additionaly fixed with an adhesive tape. All other stuff, apart of Mr Molten, go in separate plastic bags, big plastic bag and in the barrels/ sailing bag. Mr Molten does not need a plastic bag:)

Ready to close

I prepared (and sent last Monday) 2 barrels and 1 sailing bag.

In my car.

Leaving for 13 months it is not only preparing the stuff. It is as well spending the time with the people that are somehow dear to me. Recently I have visited my two amazing grandmas, my brother and his kids. Very nice experience. I try as well to dedicate the time for my friends. I know that in one year family and friend situation will be different. Therefore, I enjoy with my people all the moments I have till the departure:) Hugs!!

My beautiful niece in my boots and probably the member of 60th Polish Polar Expedition;)

15 days to go!!!

Rush hours!! 
But thanks to the visit of Alex, my mexican friend and spending the weekend with Beata, Agnieszka and the dog, I could for the moment feel the past life again;) And it was funny and relaxing:)
After those very nice days, during one night I made this beautiful video about our courses and trainings Preparing for the Arctic , which I was thinking to mount for a long time. I had to do this now, beacuse it is really the last time to show it, since the expedition is approaching and approaching, there will be a lot of new exciting videos and noone will remember our old feats!! ;)

My barrels!!!

 
Between things I do recently, I have played with paints, and motivated by Tomek from Chojnice, I have done my barrels cute and sweet, as you can see in the pic.:D

The barrels are nearly done, but still packing my precious little things, like pink unicorn from Rebeca, small Mars rover Curiosity form Sandra and Jaun, piece of Spanish sea from my Miriana, photos form my Clara, and the puff from my voleyball team!! and so on, so on...

My precious little things;)

 
I still have 4 places to go!! Płock, Warszawa, Opole, Twardogóra.. aaaaaa :DDD

25 days to go!!!

One of my 120 l barrels

It is less then one month!! The magic line is passed!! I was in Chojnice for one week to study meteorology, but in the meanwhile the big packages were coming to the flat of my parents. Firstly, some kilos of military socks and glowes, some carabiners (I want to fix my sailing bag and rucksack on the boat to avoid unpredictable movements during storms :) ), some caps and some more difficult to describe stuff:). 2 days later came two 120-liter barrels in which I will pack my precious things. My poor parents have exciting experiences even if I am not at home;)

The pair of my boots marked with dices:)

 Since I already have my barrels, when I arrived, during last night I started to mark my cloths to can pack them later. I started with boots (and ended with boots- it was late:) ). It will be very funny during one year shearing relatively small space with 10 more people with the same jackets, trousers, t-shirts, gloves, socks, glasses, googles, rucksacks, underware:D and boots! (and the girls have similar sizes to mine in almost everything!!:) )

And now Chojnice, the picturesque middle-size town surrounded by green lungs of Poland, Tuchola Pinewoods, the one of 23 polish national parks. I leave some pics, not a lot since I did not have a lot of time.. I was learning and working there.. hahaha ;)

Charzykowy lake

Me at the chimney:D

The meteo observatory small panorama from the chimney

At the observatory of Instytut Meteorologii I Gospodarki Wodnej (IMGW, The Meteorological and Hydrological Institute) I was with Mateo (the future Spitsbergen meteorologist as me). We started with 2 school groups and it was funny... The people at the observatory treated us very kindly and warmly. The chief Tomek, even if he did not have a lot of time, he organized very well our stay at Chojnice. He sheared with his meteo knowledge and Spitsbergen stories and moderate crazinest. Tomek already spent at Hornsund 1 year so he knew what he was talking about;)

Me at the entrance to Chojnice IMGW

With chief Tomek, I look awful there since I was after overnight train travel

Mateo and his first school group, since he is still not an explorateur polaire noone is listening him hahaha

Mateo with his favourite binder work. He is angry since he has to work during the last night:)

 At Chojnice we have learned to construct and send the codified meteorological reports (a report goes every hour at normal places, at Spitsbergen every 3h...). It is quite complicated since it needs to contain all weather information essential to posteriori predict the weather and climate changes.

A sunshine recorder the device that records the amount of sunshine at a given location

From all nice instruments we were using, I present you, in my opinion, the most grateful one, the SUNSHINE RECORDER! It burns everything:)

The sunshine recorder burns the paper and other stuff haha (not calibrated here)

And the last pic, the clouds. Those ones that we will not have at Spitsbergen. Cumulus are the convection clouds and at Spitsbergen is too cold for this:)
Now I have to quite, need to buy a bit more of toothpaste. Bye bye

And here are the beautiful clouds (No Spitsbergen..)