Aruba/Sea day

April 2, 2013: Aruba
Fire drill this morning, then I got off with Charlotte and went to the ice cream place. We both got muffins since it was still early. The internet was working well there this week, so that was nice. I left on my own because I had to work at 12. There weren’t any kids when I got there, so I put up a sign and headed down to lunch. Around 1, someone showed up. It was the son of the acrobats that had been on the Maasdam for the crossing back to the US! He recognized me and he told me about what they’ve been doing since then. Quite a few other kids came, but it was pretty quiet: some of the boys were playing xbox, the other older kids were playing on the wii, and the little ones were coloring with me.

I ended up going to the room and reading until dinner and work again. I sat alone in the Loft for awhile while everyone was at dinner, then a few came. We played cards for a while before going to the acrobat show, then went back to the Loft, listened to music and played more cards. It was a pretty easy night, all the teens seemed pretty tired.

April 3, 2013: Sea Day
This morning wore on for a while. I sat in the Loft alone for a while, then played cards with the one teen to come until some others came, then I taught them all Phase 10 since we’d been playing Rummy a lot. The afternoon was pretty much the same. A group of them watched a movie on one of their computers (a scary movie, they knew I didn’t want to watch it), while the rest of us played Phase 10, then made friendship bracelets. The evening was pretty much the same, not much to talk about. I did meet the other Club HAL girls at the OB after work though, Michelle and I went out on the bow and talked. Turns out that she took the contract on the Rotterdam that I turned down during Christmas/New Years.