I miss the feeling of being a ship...

Space and water... both environments where people can't live without lifesupporting technology. In a way similar but still so different.

My scubadivung instructor says I am natural with the scubadiving equipments. Well it isn't that different from being in pod and breathing compressed air via tube. Of course you need to worry airpressure in ears and all, when in pod pressure around you stays same, but being able to relax when hooked into tubes comes pretty naturally to pod pilot and the amount of information you need to manage is lot less . There the similarity ends. Space is so huge and empty and dead, everything alive in space is artifically supported. Water is full of natural life; plants, crabs, fishes.

Even nature under the water can be amazingly beautiful and it is possible to feel weithless under the water, I keep missing the aditional sensors and all the constant information feeds... I miss being more than myself, miss the freedom. I really enjoy my time here; spending time with parents, water sports, colors here, even sun. But the longer I am out of space the more I miss my pod. I miss the feeling of being a ship.

I love and hate the sun at the same time...

It's strange to be on a planet side. I am not sure do I ever get used to sun or that temperatures change during the day. It's so different here. At our bungalow we have airconditioning and temperature stays relatively steady like on stations, but outside it is so hot. I need to be so carefull with the sun so that I won't burn myself. I already did on first day. I just didn't had time before the vacation take UV treatment so that my skinn would have been bit more prepared for the sun.

Colors outside are amazing in the sun. Trees and plants are just so green and the sea is so blue or emerald green... and under the water.. who would have believed how much life there is, all the colorful fish and corals. It looks amazing when sun shines through the water. Shines through the water literally... it can also burns through the water, who would have known that. I love and hate the sun at the same time.