Freshies

The following story took place approximately 1 month ago. I was a participant in coming to Antarctica during what they call "Winfly", which is about 3-4 weeks before the main body of people come down. So, when I arrived here, there was about 350 of us on the station and then we didn't see another plane for a month. One of the planeloads that came down with me though had a shipment of fresh produce so we had that to live on when I first got here. But, after about a week or so, it all disappeared and so we went without freshies for about 3 weeks. It was supposed to be a week earlier but do to bad weather, the planes were turned away multiple times. So, we were left with dehydrated and frozen stuff for that whole time. Then, one day after I had eaten dinner, I was sitting across the galley from the food and I spotted someone with an orange and looked around and saw more fresh stuff. So, like a civil human being, I pushed everyone out of my way and rushed to have a fresh salad, banana, and orange despite the fact that I had already eaten! The first bite of the banana was something to be remembered and tasted amazing! We now get a shipment of freshies about once per week and we don't run out of it completely usually, although the lettuce is gone after a few days, along with bananas. I now bite my thumb at the few people though who hoard the fresh produce, only to through it away because they don't hold it correctly or eat it in time. Those were the people who weren't here when it was dark at night and didn't go weeks without colorful textured fruit. So I leave you with the hope that you do not waste your beautiful fresh produce and enjoy it, because I have seen the day where there is no crisp bell pepper to bite into, only a bunch of mush that is not enjoyable to bite into.