Oshima 2017 Day 5

5th October 2017, Thursday.

Hi everyone! It is officially the 5th day of our Oshima trip.

The early morning of Thursday calls for a little exercise...

Turn Out / Roll Call

Start of some morning exercises

After we finished our exercises, the DNS students changed out into our boiler suits and all of us started doing our cleaning duties that were assigned to us. The cleaning duties are to ensure that proper housekeeping is maintained within the vessel such that the area is clean and safe.

Upon completion of our respective duties, it was the SMA students dance performance time!!! Back in Singapore, our team of SMA students prepared a little dance performance to showcase to our Japanese counterparts. We were fortunate to have the time allocated to us due to the busy schedule. Everyone made their way to the Poop Deck at 8.45am to watch our performance. Because a bus is scheduled to pick us up at 9.30am to visit Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Shipyard, we were all donned in our boiler suits. To ensure some uniformity for the dance, SMA students decided to wear our Oshima shirts inside our boiler suits and perform with our boiler suits half-suited up. We indeed looked pretty cool :) Hehe.

Dance performance by SMA students @ Poop Deck

All crew members and Japanese students and teachers gathered to watch our performance, it was indeed a large audience! Hopefully, our little performance sparked some smiles in all of you :)

After we performed, due to the abundance of time, we decided to teach our Japanese buddies our dance too!

Dance teaching led by Darwis

Getting the hang of it...

All smiles!!

After a couple of rounds of us dancing alongside our buddies, we decided to step down and allow our Japanese buddies to perform for us too!!! They were a little shy at first, but their spontaneity afterwards broke all their nervousness and they danced ever so beautifully :)

Their turn to perform!!

We indeed enjoyed the entire period we had up on the poop deck with everyone!

Thank you everyone for participating!!

With our hearts full and faces all smiles, it was soon 9.30am and the bus was ready to pick us up to head to Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Shipyard.

On the way to the shipyard

There, we learnt about the shipbuilding company and what they do. Many of us were surprised that they actually cover not just the sea, but land and air as well! This means that they not only build ships and vessels, but also land-related technology like airbags in cars that react and activate instantaneously upon a major car crash, and also aircrafts that cover the sky! It was indeed an insightful experience to be at the shipyard.

From L to R: Benjamin, Rifhan and 1st Engineer

We also got the chance to have a tour around the shipyard, where we could see engineers working real life, performing welding and ship construction right before our very eyes. It was also astonishing to have seen a HUGE vessel coming together from smaller pieces. This is as such because the shipyard is limited in space, hence the company builds different parts of the ship separately and then weld the different parts together to form the entirety of the vessel - almost like a lego set! (Unfortunately, pictures were not allowed to be taken during the tour around the shipyard!)

After the tour, we visited the museum there, where we were then allowed to take photos:

Vessels displayed in the museum

Group photo inside the museum

After the educational visit to Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Shipyard, we returned to the bus which brought us back to T.S Oshima Maru, where we changed out of our boiler suits and into our casual clothes. It was time for shore leave again!

Lunch was taken at a beautiful restaurant by the coast at Moji, where the meal was on the school again! We thank Oshima College for their hospitality and grace and we definitely enjoyed the meal :)

Clockwise from top left: Yuki, Darwis, Shin and Rifhan

Clockwise from top left: Mr Seiji, Dr. John Park, Capt. Raj and Ms Miyuki

Mr Seiji was around to assist Dr. John Park, while Ms Miyuki was around to assist the Chief Officer on board Oshima Maru.

Clockwise from top left: Sharif, Taka, Koki, Nani, Calista and Yuzuki

Clockwise from top left: Rachel, Yu, Benjamin, Salihin, Akari and Sarina

Thank you Oshima College!!

After lunch, we proceeded to our sightseeing around Shimonoseki!

Salihin with his Fugu (Pufferfish)

From L to R: Yuki, Benjamin and Sharif

Capt. Raj the cool sir!!

Rachel together with Yuki

We also took a 5-minute ferry ride from Shimonoseki to a small island just opposite called Moji:

Yuki and Koki with an amazing view on board the ferry

Awaiting to depart to go to Moji

Selfie on the ferry!!

Immediately at Moji, we met a Japanese newly-wed couple who was carrying out their photoshoot in the region. Of course we had to ask for a photo with them!

Love is in the air :)

Calista with her favourite Totoro

Our group photo!

Clockwise from top: Calista, Rachel, Yuzuki and Sarina

From L to R: Koki, Yuki, Benjamin, Sharif and Yu

Darwis with his 2 Fugus

After sightseeing at Moji, we met back at the ferry station to return back to Shimonoseki. There, we were given free time again!! We decided to take a bus ride to the same mall that we were at yesterday:

A bus ride ticket

Crowded bus!

Dinner was on our own that night:

Crepe!!

Shin, Yuki, Benjamin and Koki having ramen!!

Oishi!!

Crepe for dessert afterwards!

That night, we returned to Oshima Maru by 8.55pm, and there was a roll call in the study hall at 9pm to ensure that everyone is accounted for.

After roll call, we were given free time to shower and prepare for lights out. That night, another group of students were in charge for night round: Salihin, Rifhan, Yu and Koki.

Night round lasted from 10pm to 10.30pm, where it was then time for lights out. However, as many of us did not feel sleepy, we decided to ask for permission to use the Study Hall to transfer our photos from the camera to Darwis' laptop. In addition to that, we also had a good chit-chat session with some of the Japanese buddies, as not all were there as some may have already gotten to bed.