the next few days

Over the past few days the group has traveled to a variety of interesting places. Most recently we visited FRI or the Fisheries Research Institute where we were shown models of fishing ships. Some ships used circular nets with a diameter of one kilometer or a straight line fifty km long carrying thousands of hooks to catch tuna. In addition we were shown a net used to scrape the bottom of the ocean in order to catch some kind of shrimp, however this net will trap anything in its path and its use has destroyed coral and other marine life, in fact ninety percent of the catch is unwanted marine life and only ten percent is actually the desired shrimp. The tour guide also showed us some new fish products mainly such as fish ice cream and fish cake to trick small children into eating fish. There was also a display of cosmetics dereived from fish scales and deep sea water that is supposed to make one look more beautiful, the current cosmetic products now usually use collagen from pigs so maybe using fish scale products is not too bad.

To think more like a fish I decided to go swimming in the morning. There are a few tips one should know when going swimming. First they do not sell tickets until eight oclock in the morning even though the pool opens at six so I was forced to swim at six and then wait until eight oclock to pay the people which is a little inconvenient. However, it is worth swimming in the morning because there are less people. At night there are usually four or five people per lane. Patience told me that when she swims there are fifteen people per lane but I do not think that is possible because there will be more people in the pool than water and the water will probably overflow. When I swam at night it was crowded and I hit a few people because I was swimming too aggresively but then some elderly women came into the pool so I tried to avoid bumping into them.