March 24, 2003
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SAILING SONGS
Yesterday, another sailing aficionado called me up because he wanted to go sailing. He wanted to bring along two of his friends who are from France. I said, “Sure! We can take one of the bigger boats out then.” It was great to sail and get a French lesson at the same time. I learned a bit about France, and they learned a bit about the U.S. Sailing is never dull. The wind was really dead yesterday — 3 mph most of the time. But, the company was good, and that’s what matters. In fact it took us maybe an hour to get out of the harbor, and we had to ROW most of the time. Fabien and Rosienne started to sing French songs, one of which, when translated to me meant, “Shut up and row. Row, baby, row. We’re not going anywhere, so shut up and row!” I wish we had an English song that could compare to that! In spite of the lyrics, it was actually a very nice song! And somehow in the middle of singing, the wind picked up to maybe 7 mph, and so we got a good bit of sailing done. It was Fabien’s first time to sail. Rosienne said she had sailed a Hobie Cat before, and and she agreed that it is fun when those things are heeling.
Comments (2)
Sailing again? Wow…when do you actually work?
*oh, he’s going to pay for that*
This surgery rotation is great, cuz I get weekends off. When I was at the VA, I had to make the 40 minute drive to the next town every day, even on weekends, so there was no sailing for me. I usually had to stay there from 5 AM to 9 PM so I never saw the sun for 4 months.
We also get trauma call, whenever we want. That’s different from internal medicine where we had to take call whenever the residents were on call, even if it landed on a weekend.