Job: Bosun - It is my job to maintain the ship and keep her clean.
When/where did you start with Greenpeace?
I started working with Greenpeace 11 years ago. I moved from the huge city of Sao Paulo to Florianopolis, a beautiful island, full of forests, lakes, dunes and waterfalls. Some friends and I began a local conservation group, which then turned into a local Greenpeace group, lasting for 6 years.
Around 2000 a friend was asked to go and work on the Amazon campaign for Greenpeace, and I went too. I volunteered on the ship, Amazon Guardian, as a campaign volunteer, and aftewards, the captain asked me to stay on as a deckhand volunteer. I worked as a volunteer, then as deckhand and now I am the Bosun.
How did you come to be on this Rainbow Warrior
Most of my time with Greenpeace I have been sailing on the Arctic Sunrise - It is my first time on board the Rainbow Warrior. I like it, she is a beautiful boat. It is good now, I am starting to understand her ways, she is understanding my ways and we are in harmony. We are helping each other.
Essential survival item for spending time on the Rainbow Warrior?
My books and my music.
If you were a fish, which one would you be?
When we crossed the equator a few years ago we had a ceremony, because it meant we were no longer Pollywogs. Neptune (Luis, Chief engineer from Colombia) gave me the name Oriental Sweet Lips, after a kind of reef fish.
(It is a traditional sailing rite of passage to graduate from Pollywog to Shellback when sailors cross the equator. )
- Flavio
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My dear friend:
Mi “Explotador de Voluntarios” consentido.
Es innegable la importancia de que un niño se forme en su propio medio, que utilice los elementos que la naturaleza le brinda, que cumpla con su ciclo natural, que aprenda a obtener y a ofrecer sus productos sin recompensa, que adquiera desde los primeros años el sentido de justicia y valore la participación de vida.
En nuestros días, después de muchas matanzas y odio, ha resurgido la esperanza y hemos vuelto, pero aun se nos niega nuestro derecho de vivir.
Solo deseo que cada uno de nosotros seamos un niño.
"La sabiduría consiste no sólo en ver lo que tienes ante tí, sino en prever lo que va a venir"
No he podido escribirte por tu correo, seguiré tratando, te deseo lo mejor a ti y a tus compañeros de Barco.
Un abrazo.
MEXICO
Posted by: karen at June 22, 2005 07:28 PM
hahaha
i wish i could say some palavroes for ya, bosun.
mas eu sei que isso seria muita falta de educacao, ne?
te cuida bem e escreve aqui pros escravos!!
ate mais e bons ventos, mate ;o)-
beijos,
clicia*
Posted by: clicia at June 22, 2005 09:58 AM
gostaria de conversar ,tracar altas ideias com voce sobre o faz e tudo mais
