On 17 February, a month ago, I submitted the Marsden application. At the same day I mad my way to Nelson for the STCW (Standards of Training, Certification and Watch keeping for Seafarers) training for my ship work with Silversea.
The Marsden application took a lot of time, meetings, consideration, etc. etc. but in the end, we put together a solid programme. The question is now, if we (my team and I) will make it ot a full proposal, speak that we get into the second round. In May/June we will know it then.
The STCW training haunts me since half a year, but now it is over and done. It was a very intense course over seven days and I had to stay in Nelson over the weekend – so I was away for nine days. In times of teaching, tutorials and the start of the semester in general made this stay a bit of tense time wise. The training was on First Aid for Maritime work, fire training, and personal and ship security and survival training.
Before I left for Nelson, I took on two tutorials in medieval history, 100 level, and it seems that was a last minute decision from the History department to ask me if I would do it. The semester started on 22 February, that was the in the middle of my STCW course.
On 2 and 9 March, I gave lectures on Antarctic history for the U3A (University of the third Age) in Avonhead. At the same time, starting with 8 March, I gave five lectures for ANTA 102 in Antarctic History and one tutorial (Monday to Wednesday, ending with 17 March). It was very intense but I love teaching.
On the top of all that, I got the chance to get a place in the ServiceIQ for a Museums course, which consists of seven modules. I submitted one assignments (many pages handwritten) before I left to Nelsen and one after I came back. Currently, I work on the third assignment.
All these events happened in the last two months and that was the reason for my silence so far.
Dr Ursula Rack 
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