Panama

April 15, 2013: Panama
My last time in Panama (at least that I know of)! I ended up unintentionally sleeping in this morning; my last alarm didn’t seem to go off, so I woke up at 10 and hung out in the room until lunchtime.

After lunch, I worked on my pictures some, then went up to work early. Only one of the kids had showed up as of 2 (that one only stayed for 30 minutes in the morning with her parents). Luckily I took my Italian book because no kids showed up for the rest of the afternoon. It’s been a while since I’ve really studied much, but I was happy to find that I remembered most of what I’ve learned already! I closed up a little early, changed and went off-ship for a little while for internet. It took me a while to connect, but I didn’t really need to do anything so I sat around waiting for my phone to connect. I didn’t spend much time online, then I walked around one or two of the shops before getting back on the ship. Charlotte was watching The Hobbit on TV so I joined her in that, trying to work some more on my pictures at the same time.

Dinner was pretty quick, I didn’t really feel like hanging around and talking for some reason so I went back down to the room to listen to music and play FreeCell on the computer. Chrissy called as I was about to leave to get to work early. She was in the Lido waiting on a cake for Kassie (it’s her birthday!) so I went up there to keep her company as we waited for a few more people to come so we could surprise her.

She was very happy about the surprise, plus the fact that I got there early which meant she could leave. Christine and Chrissy left not long after Kassie did, so I was left with 4 kids for our “Brave the Night” theme. The two younger kids weren’t wanting to behave or participate at all, and it was annoying the older kids. When I finally got them calmed down so the older ones could work on creating as many words out of “pineapples” as they could, the parents of the older two came to pick them up. I gave up on the theme night and just let the young boys build airplanes with legos and “battle” with them. I was glad when their mom showed up early to get them. It took me a while to clean up since I had to wipe down the whole room alone, fill out the sanitization forms, and fill out the form for code yellow (we’ve been in Code Yellow since Chrissy got on the ship). I feel like I’m starting to get trained for YPC already; I’m filling out the forms that the YPC is supposed to fill out and turn in.
There was a crew party tonight in the Crow’s Nest. I went up on my own, then ended up hanging out with some of the front office girls for a while, then with the rest of Club HAL when they finally got there. Sami and Erich came up and the three of us hung out for the rest of the time. It was a lot of fun, one last big social time before I leave.