Finally some news from the Qingdao trainers, we’ve had an exciting first week as due to the rain, thunderstorms and heavy winds, therefore we have not been able to teach the kids every day. Some days they just don’t show up because they decided for themselves not to come. But off course we’ve had some lessons and off course also a couple of days with sun and perfect winds. We taught them a lot with the help of the OP-simulator Which is by the way a fantastic invention. We’ve covered almost all the basics of sailing during our lessons on the water and during our shore-based lessons we have taught them the 4 basic sailing knots and some useful information about the weather and safety on the water.
for example today we couldn’t sail due to the weather conditions again and most of all the state the beach and the boats were left in after last night’s storm. (check the pictures) All morning we helped tidying up the beach and the boats (dirty and tiring work) and the kids learned from our weather talk and decided for themselves to stay home/at school.
Due to the occasional bad weather we have had some more free time to spend exploring the big big city which was really great because there is so much to see and do and yet still so much to explore. So many restaurants and so much nightlife although everything closes at two o’clock because of the Olympic test event. (the Chinese really don’t know anything about sailors ;) )
Tonight is Dirk’s last night and tomorrow is our day official day off so that’s promising!!
Goodbye everyone and till the next update of our very interesting life ;)
Wieke Kimman and Dancker Bijleveld
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