Sunday, January 6, 2013

sea day #1 of the week

January 6, 2013: Sea Day
This morning I had breakfast alone. It’s weird with all the other Club HAL people gone because they all used to go to breakfast; now it’s just Triston and me and since Triston’s working with the teens, he can sleep in and go to breakfast late. I worked some on a drawing I started yesterday until one kid finally came. She was the only one there all morning. She’s a really sweet kid, quiet on her own so we generally followed the schedule as much as we could since you can’t play some games with just two people, we did lots of coloring though.

I sat with one of the photographers at lunch and talked about lots of stuff with her: England, cruise life, meeting people on the ship, photography, etc. Work this afternoon was extremely busy. Five kids were there most of the afternoon. They fed off of each other and went wild. I kept having to run after them to make sure they didn’t climb on the bucket, jump off tables, go behind the curtain on the stage and get into the supplies, hit each other, scream, spray glitter glue everywhere, etc.

One at least was good, he’s a three-year-old, very laid back and quiet but knows what he wants to do. I did almost lose control of the other four, but when the 3-year-old and I started to do something interesting, they joined in and the room quieted down considerably and I felt like I could actually continue with this group this week. After a while, two got bored so I had to call parents to come get them, another’s parents came to take him to a show and another 3-year-old girl came in. She came by last night but was nervous about staying so since there were only two others I let her mom stay the last 15 minutes as we did a craft with glitter glue. She was one happy 3-year-old getting to put foamy sea creatures on paper with glitter glue! They all left right at 4. I went to go see how Triston was doing with the teens. I stayed to talk to him for a bit and hang out with the one teen that was there before coming back to my room since my nose had started running.

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