Monday

Was early at the Rotterdam today, despite the depressingly rainy weather, everybody was upbeat. Anne Marie, Jessica, Anneke, Alina, Emma, Alissa Jeroen, Bram, Byron, Miguel as well as myself. Wouter and Josine. After the vigorous shaking of hands all around, there was the introduction, had a tour of the ship on and below deck to have a look around, and meet some employees and volunteers.

In between, lunch and then an energising exercise to prevent any after-meal dips. Free association exercises to start the creative juices flowing. A lecture about HEMS and behavioural adjustment by Sonja. Further another energiser exercise, a discussion about Sustainability led by Wouter, and then a brain-storm session about the ship, its core services and the sustainable ideas that could possibly improve those core services. Quite a fruitful exercise. Further separated into four groups, and admittedly a long day for everyone but I believe everyone is quite excited about tomorrow again. I'm sure Anne-Marie has more text for the blog as well, and of course those brilliant photos by Jess. Please feel free to react on any post, and treat this space as additional space for brain storm ideas and doodles/scribblets/what-have-you's. Cheers.