November 13, 2012: Cagliari
I had a great breakfast this morning, I got to sit with Kayley and Cass who had gone up early to help out in the Lido (all the musicians have been asked to since they’re not busy and code red means that the Lido staff is having to do a lot more work). Only a few minutes after I got up to Club HAL, the girl’s aunt brought her up for the day. She sat down to color and I decided to read a book instead of coloring as well. All was well for about 5 minutes, then she started to get upset that she wasn’t with her mom. Her aunt had told me that they were all getting off the ship, so I wasn’t entirely sure what to do. After trying to comfort and explain to her, she still didn’t stop. I decided just to put in a movie, though she claims to hate movies. I put on Tangled and sat down to watch just out of her sight. Slowly I heard the sniffling stop and footsteps slowly making their way towards the chair next to mine. She cheered up after that and we finished the movie just as Brian came by. I ate with them and the siblings were dropped off while we were all eating.
I was surprised when I stood up to leave by the girl running up and hugging me. I couldn’t detach her from my leg for a minute, she almost pulled me over! Then the other girl came and they took turns hugging me bye.
I got off the ship on my own, not really sure what to do with the rest of the day since I was done with work. I walked around the town for thirty minutes, not finding a grocery store (I kind of wanted snack food for the room), or a café that looked like it had wifi, so I gave up and got on the bus back to the ship. The HAL Cats set was cancelled so I hung out with Cass in the room for a while, then watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with Kayley and Samantha until dinner. The three of us went to dinner together, then I went to my room and read until the show at 10. There was an Italian singer performing, he was actually from Napoli so it was very interesting.
November 14, 2012: Sea Day
I had breakfast before work as usual. I played Lego Harry Potter for an hour before the girl showed up. She was content to color as long as I sat next to her; that was fine with me, I was very happy not to have to play Candyland anymore.
After work, Cass was working on RosettaStone in the room, so showed me how it works. What it looks like is a bunch of activities like the online activities that accompany textbooks. She worked on that for a bit, then got bored so went up to the Lido to see if they needed help serving. I stayed in the room for a while before heading up to eat. We’re now out of code red (there’s been no new cases in the last 48 hours), which means that after lunch, we get to serve ourselves again! It’ll make getting food and drink so much quicker.
I took a long time to eat lunch, then went back to the room to go through pictures before Bingo. Something is wrong with my pictures from Napoli. They aren’t coming up on my computer. I’ll have to look more into that later when I have internet. I just can’t open them with the normal photo gallery.
Bingo went quickly, we thankfully had enough people to play and managed to get more money selling cards than we have any other day. There were quite a few new faces too, probably a lot of people that got on in Rome.
Dinner was kind of disappointing, there wasn’t much good to choose from, but at least I could get my own bread and fruit instead of having to wait for one of the two people behind the counter to help everyone in line before coming to me in another line. Samantha was sitting with the rest of the cast and Brian so I joined her, we had our own conversations as they talked about scary movies and weird TV shows. The siblings came up tonight; we listened to music, played video games and colored. The girl asked me to make her another bracelet so I did that while they finished up some coloring pages. I enjoy having just the two of them up there, it’s much calmer and the whole room just seems more relaxed.
November 15, 2012: Gibraltar
I overslept this morning. I intended to get up and have breakfast and hanging out upstairs before work at 12. I ended up waking up with an hour to get ready and head upstairs. It didn’t help that I had a headache. Brian left as soon as I got upstairs so I took the girl to lunch alone. We were there for quite a while because she kept getting distracted doing other stuff instead of eating.
Finally we made it up to Club HAL, my headache had not improved so I happily let her color and finish watching Despicable Me. The other kids got there and the girls played together while the boy played video games, as usual. I think they sensed that I wasn’t feeling my best so they were on pretty good behavior, I was very grateful.
I came back to the room and slept until our room steward came in to clean. There was a bit of confusion because I had just woken up and thought I told him he could go ahead and check to see if we needed anything in the bathroom but he just stood at the door for a few minutes.
I reluctantly went to dinner since I knew I had to eat something and take an advil before going back to work. I sat and made a bracelet until the siblings came. I was feeling mostly better by then so we finished watching Despicable Me (for the second time today) and colored. Then, they started playing with the stuffed animal monkeys they got today. Didn’t give me much to do so I made another bracelet for the girl. I helped them make a fort to protect their children (the monkeys) from whoever it was trying to kidnap them; we had just finished it when their dad came. They want to come up tomorrow morning so we can make a tent since I told them I’d only be there in the morning tomorrow. I guess Brian doesn’t let them do stuff like that.
No comments:
Post a Comment