July 9, 2012
Last night was our intro night! We did activities to help us get to know everyone, like make an All About Me poster, play apples to apples, and of course SuperMario. They seemed to enjoy it, but only a few were there in time for the making of the posters, so today when they finished their drawing of a ship, I asked those who hadn’t already made a poster to make one, they liked that idea because we tape them
up on the wall!
Today is going a LOT better than last Monday. I had breakfast with Natalie and a few other people then we had a lot of kids come for morning session and stay mostly the whole time. After a long lunch with Natalie and Ashley, Natalie and I walked around and talked some before I went back to Club HAL. This afternoon we had about 20 or so kids at a time. Some already didn’t want to leave when their parents came to pick them up early. We definitely have two artists in our group this week, one is a cartoonist and she made a really good penguin out of model magic. Another drew this amazing landscape for his ship in the ship-drawing contest this afternoon. I’m so glad they’re enjoying coming to see us as much as I love having them come. Again, some of the littlest ones have attached themselves to me, sitting in my lap when we’re both out during a game, sitting next to me during activities, etc. I’ve learned most of their names now, a few I still have trouble with of course, mainly because they’ve only come once or not stayed for more than one activity.
July 10, 2012
The kids loved our spy night last night, but they’re not very good at finding things. Ashley and I hid clues and answers all around the room and it took them ages to find them, sometimes even with our helpful hints. But at least they had fun. I wonder if all ships do the same theme nights; I know that other ships do different things for theme nights, different activities and such. Well, I guess I shall learn when I get on my next ship.
Because it was formal night and I wanted to go out with Ashley and Natalie, I ended up borrowing a dress from Ashley. We went to the show: Ballroom Blitz, Ashley and I only got to see the last 20 minutes or so because we had to wait for all our kids to sign out and I had to run around and change clothes. What I saw was pretty cool though; I love all the tech work that goes into these shows!
After the show, Ashley and I went dancing for over an hour in the club on board. So much fun! We were just having a good time, not caring how ridiculous we may have looked. Ashley normally doesn’t go out, but she went out because it was formal night and because it was hour-back night (meaning we reach Alaska).
This morning the kids were waiting right by the door at 9, strangely enough, they
haven’t tugged and banged on the door to get let in before it was time; they just stand patiently and wait. For a minute Ashley and I thought that we wouldn’t have anyone come right away and we’d get a chance to play SuperMario. This group is really good about taking turns though; I’m very grateful for that because last week, the kids were rather possessive of the game and didn’t play anything else.
After lunch with Ashley, Natalie and Jenn (the librarian), we started to see the small icebergs in the water as we got into Tracy Arm. Sadly, for the second week in a row, I didn’t get to see the glacier. Ashley and I helped with the tweens cooking class again after. It took a little longer than last week because there were a lot more kids in attendance. We were out by 4:45 though and went on deck to see whatever we could. The waterfalls are gorgeous, sometimes the water falls straight off the side of a mountain because of a cliff, other times it’s a slow stream; I saw one that had actually tunneled under a lot of snow in it’s path. We saw some puffins too, from very far away; they were black dots moving around and streaks of white as they tried to fly across the water.
Tonight was ‘Brave the Night’ theme, which (on this ship) is basically a series of team challenge activities. They make up a team flag, a team cheer, do wall-sits, unscramble words, do some Eye-Q riddles (example: the word sand is written inside a square. The answer is sandbox), and slurp jello through a straw. Even though some were skeptical about some of the activities, they still participated and now love them and want to do them again. One group is actually going to do the Human Knot as part of the talent show!
I work tomorrow morning through lunch, then I get to go to Juneau for the afternoon! Yay for internet and hopefully the ability to post all this I’ve been writing!
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