Day 9:  We missed day 8!

Emails from the boat, sent via satellite, are getting expensive, so there was no update yesterday.

24.18 degrees North, 156.27 degrees East.  Mr. Tanaka and I continue to
run our English class each morning.  We have our last one tomorrow.  It
has been even better as we added in a new portion where we have the
students write out questions using question words (who, what, when,
where, why, how) and then share then in pairs to give the question and
answer.  The students are able to write English quite well, so giving
them the chance to write first and then speak helps them out.

Leo: 

Yesterday I had deck works from 7-3.  We had to take the buoys and
put reflectors on them.  It took me about 10 minutes for 1 buoy and we
had to go through about 150 of them.  I was quite tired after deck
works, but ended up playing cards with everyone until curfew.

Sean: 

Yesterday I helped teach the English class with the teachers.
Teaching English is very fun, especially since you can feel slightly
good about the mastery of your own language.  I had afternoon deck work
after that.  I did the same thing as Leo, except I also had to throw
buoys up and down between decks.  Today (10/28 aboard the ship), we
should see a Japanese island in the late afternoon (South Bird Island).
I am looking forward to that.  I also signed up for a 4-8 am bridge
watch and will let you know how that goes later.

 Repairing longline fishing floats that can go several hundreds of feet underwater.