Wow, I haven’t had much time to write in the last two days. Yesterday was the last day with that group of tweens and Natalie, Jordan and Karyn’s last day. The kids I think were ready to get off the ship, they had a hard time staying focused on games, and both Ashley and me were feeling blech with cold-ish symptoms, losing our voices a bit. But, we made it through the day. I got off early because I worked the first movie night in the week so I met up with Natalie, Karyn and Jenn and we went to the Bow to hang out for a while overlooking Victoria (normal clothes, YAY!) Natalie went to work while Karyn, Jenn and I got off the ship for free internet. After sitting outside for an hour online, we decided it was time to come in, so Jenn and I went up to the Bow to wait for Natalie so we could all hang out one last time before going our separate ways for a while. She was disembarked because of an eye problem, which we hope gets better soon!
Let’s see, this morning I got up late-ish, saw Jordan off and went to breakfast. The Lido was closed early for some reason (they’re supposed to be open until 10:30, but it was 9:50), so I went to the café in the library and bought a muffin to eat while I studied my Italian. I called mom after a while and finally got to answer most of her questions :) I went to lunch, but no one showed up, so I went back to my room where I found my new roommate Jessica. She was hungry so I took her up to the Lido and sat with her while she ate, then we took a tour of the ship. It’s so weird that I’m the one showing people around now! Two weeks ago I didn’t know where anything was. Jessica is new to cruise ship life so we had lots of fun talking about that and telling stories and such.
After wristband check during the Emergency Drill and our meeting, I went back to the library and read away the afternoon. It was kind of crowded, too many people for my taste, but I was glad to sit on a windowsill and watch as we passed tugboats, sailboats, and the buildings on land. Quite a few people came up to me to ask questions. I was very happy when I was actually able to answer all of them, it shows I know more about the ship. Again, some people even thought I was the librarian. One man was startled when I moved apparently, when I said hi he kind of jumped and said “oh my, I thought you were just a statue.” Maybe I sit too still when I’m really focusing on “Le Fantome de l’Opera.”
I went to dinner with Jessica and we met up with Megan (my new supervisor since Karyn left) and Ashley. We went up to the rooms to set up and Megan realized that I hadn’t worked with the littles yet (that’s what we call the 3-7 year olds). Since Megan was supposed to help me with them, and she has to do new(to the ship)-crew stuff this week as well as being Youth Program Coordinator- YPC- she asked if it was okay for me and Erica to switch jobs this week. Meaning, I’m now with the teens in the Loft! Entirely different experience!
I have an entirely new schedule now. I work 10-12, 2-6 and 8-1am. It’s very relaxed though, there’s a schedule of suggested events posted, but it’s optional to follow so I just get to figure out what they like to do and we can all do it. Like, if they want to, we can go see the shows as a group; I think we’re doing formal night tomorrow and going to the show. Tonight we hung out and talked for a while, played Cheats, played a trivia game, Taboo, Battle of the Sexes and Balderdash (they got bored of games somewhat quickly). It was kind of sad because we all went outside to see if we could see why the ship was rocking so much –it was something to do- I walked out with them, but came in before they did to organize the “where we are” signs. No one came back except for parents looking for their teens. Some came back looking for the others, but the others were nowhere to be found. A few more came back and we played cards for about 15 minutes before they got tired and said they were going to bed and weren’t coming back, so I was able to leave around 12:15!
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