• Question: what do you do in your down time if you get any at all, like do you play xbox ect.. or is it all spent helping the merkats?

    Asked by urbanresistance to Al, Emma, James, Omar on 14 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by meganl56.
    • Photo: Al Bartlett

      Al Bartlett answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Hello Urbanresistance.

      Thanks for your question. I’d love a job helping Meerkats but there just aren’t enough to go around. Dubai (where i work) is a very diverse place with lots of things to do and things to see – it had the Burj-Al-Arab hotel (The only 7-star hotel in the world) and the worlds tallest buliding – The Burj Khalifa. I see and do plently of things here but not Xbox!!

    • Photo: James Vokes

      James Vokes answered on 23 Mar 2012:

      Unlike Al I live in Crawley which has some of the greyest buildings in the UK and very little to see. In my spare time I do play a bit of Xbox but I also enjoy going to the cinema or to the pub and I have been known to get the train down to Brighton to enjoy the sun when it appears.

    • Photo: Emma Bould

      Emma Bould answered on 23 Mar 2012:

      It depends on where I am! When you spend 6 months at sea you need to to do something that isn’t work sometimes! I don’t have an Xbox or any other games machine at home but we do have a Wii on the ship, so sometime we play Band Hero or Sports Resort.

      When I am at home I do my garden (it sounds a bit grown up and boring, but it would turn into a jungle otherwise!) and I have a Digital SLR camera which I am still learning to use, but I like to take photos of all sorts of things (you can see my picture of the Suez Canal and the Friendship bridge from the top of the ship’s mast on my profile page /transportm12-zone/profile/emmabould)

      My other spare time (which there isn’t much because I live on the ship during the week) I am spending with the school I am hoping to help (if I win the competition!). They are trying to improve their science programme so I have been doing things like building structures out of newspaper and helping out with their Science days.

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