Most of us tuned out from the 30-plus minute history lesson of the place, not even a movie or slideshow going along with it.
Garbage effort.
Fin looked a little sweaty. My bet is he didn't really care, but Ms. Inoue looked just as bored during the lesson as the rest of us.
To be fair, the story consisted of people no one in the universe knows about, like Baron Richard Casey, the namesake of the base, and Fabian Gottlieb, Mikhail Lazarev, the gentleman responsible for circumventing and discovering the South Pole.
"This is torture... when does it end?" Ranni whispered.
"No idea, but I'm surprised they don't have a better presentation."
Just when it was certain we were all going back to sleep, it did end. It took exactly 20 seconds before we half-heartedly clapped for a second or so.
The ladies didn't take it personally and once again showed no emotion, took their seat, and my brother took the attention again.
