Tuesday June 17th. D+4 from my last shower.

With a tacit agreement, it seems that none of us use the bucket as toilets. Behind the famous piece of fabric, we only change of clothes.

We have joined Aura, Jens and Jack: a columbian, a swedish and a british. They are the physicists of the mission. They collect a ton of measurements around the Polar Haven which is the tent on the ice where we collect sea water and store some material. Among other experiments, they handle a met’ tower (meteorology tower) and a GoPro which takes pictures of the ice hung to a helium balloon. Like us, they wait for the melt.

During the days, there is no way to communicate between the different teams. The transportation on ice and unpaved road are limited as well: over the four ski-doos bought for this mission, only two of them are still running, a four-wheeler and a pick-up truck with no power-stearing. Every night, we plan for the day after with much details in order to make up for these logistic limitations. Thus, we establish who will be where and when. After that sometimes we play cards. Then, everybody dozes off at the moment we get into our sleeping bags.

I sleep on a camp bed located under a drying rack where we hung our gloves and socks

I try to set up a technique to brush my teeth with no running water. It’s the last step of rinsing the toothbrush that is the most difficult.

Also, I discovered a new challenge: the dish washing. In a dry-cabin, no miracle should be expected. However, it goes beyond the worse of my dish-washing nightmare. After doing it for the first time, I almost decided to stop eating in these dishes.

I found tiny bricks of orange juice for 25cts. They make me happy.