Phoebe's Corner

Phoebe is returning to the UK on the 22nd to start University, here she lists some of the things she has done, memories collected;

Finishing up my time here, being at my job has been fun. I’ve been helping clean where the archives keep the old documents, having to use small hoovers to get the dust off the books and then survey their condition, I’ve been cleaning the old 1800s books, I had to use a conservation hoover and get the dust off, I’ve also been helping clean “the stack” where all the documents are kept, there’s a lot of them and you have to empty one shelf at a time, wipe it and put the stuff back, it takes hours, wiping all the shelves down also which is taking hours but we do find some hidden gems which is always fun.

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time here, exploring, wildlife watching and meeting lots of new people. It’s something I will remember forever. It’s been challenging at times like some of the culture is so different compared to the UK but nothing too much. However, I am very excited to go home and eat fresh fruit and vegetables!

I will miss the penguins, I had a penguin nibble my leg once, then I got penguin fleas, I’ve been yelled at by sealions a few times, I think the coolest thing was swimming with penguins at berthas beach, they were surfing in the waves and watching us paddle, You’re not allowed to get closer than a few metres to the animals unless they come to you, the sea lions are highly memorable, the beautiful sunsets and all the travelling, I will definitely go back one day.

Since being here I’ve visited so many places around the east and west side of the islands including Saunders Island, Whale point, Sealion island, Pebble Island, Berkeley sound, Johnson’s harbour, Volunteer point, Darwin, Goose green and Stanley of course. I’ve been lucky enough to explore Chile as well and briefly stopped at Ascension Island.

When I fly back, I get to Brize Norton first and we’re staying with some friends for a few days to recover from the flight, then I’ll go to London and then back to Weymouth from there, I’m going to try and make it to the next Weymouth space meeting when I’m back

The next step then will be to move to somewhere near London, go to college and get into a Uni, and I’ll go on from there.

Thank you all for keeping up with my newsletter, this has been a wonderful experience documenting my journey, and thank you to Charity from Space for suggesting to do this and being an amazing help as always.