December 3, 2013: At Sea
The rest of the workday yesterday was rather uneventful compared to the first half. I came back to the room and took a nap, talked to Natalie, had dinner then went to work. We had spy night, we combined our groups since there were only a few tweens. It went rather well, we had some bit of trouble getting them to stay focused, but that’s the usual with the young ones; a few more tweens came just in time for the scavenger hunt so we divided them up in groups with the littles, telling them to let the little ones help out where they could (looking for the clues), most of them were actually pretty good at that which was very helpful.
Natalie and I ran down to the room to change into formal clothes and made it to the show. I didn’t know what show it was, but I was happy to see when we got there that it was LiveWire, an Irish couple that I’ve seen a few times on various other ships. They have a great show, I’ve really enjoyed it every time. After that, I decided I wanted to socialize a bit, so we went to the OB for a while and ended up outside on the bow. It was a beautiful night, very light wind, stars so bright and numerous. We stayed out there for a while, I talked to the photographers and Cassandra for a while.
Today was a busy day, a typical sea day. We had quite a few kids right at the start of the day, and most of them stayed all the while we were open. At least they were mostly well-behaved, we didn’t have too much trouble all day, the normal instances of course but nothing we couldn’t handle. Even ice cream went well!
Camp night went well too, we decorated bears, made bear ear headbands, and divided them into groups to make up their own camp. Very few behavior problems compared to the last few days, but that’s probably because we’ve finally figured out how to divide them into groups that have the best results. As soon as they all left, we cleaned up quickly, then ran to catch the last bit of the show, GarageBand. Remember, the last time I saw this show was when they had a tech rehearsal for the crew. It was a bit disappointing actually, seeing it again. It’s still a great show, but I think it’s because it was so funny last time, and the cast is getting to the last month of their contracts so are tired, it just wasn’t as good. Still good, but not as much so as I remember
December 4, 2013: Grand Cayman
I was pretty unsure of what to do today at first. Natalie did tendering, letting me sleep in a bit. I went up to visit before breakfast and it was going really well, sending people straight down the stairs to the tender; we agreed to meet at breakfast if open tender was called before 10, and to meet in the room (me with a muffin for her) if they hadn’t called it, then go ashore as soon as we were ready. At breakfast, I met up with the solo guitarist and he invited me to go to the beach with a group. I told him I’d meet them on the pier, then went down with Natalie’s muffin after I’d finished eating. Open Tender was a bit later than expected, but Natalie and I still got to walk around for a bit before I met up with the group and she had to find her excursion.
The beach was great, I was very happy to go hang out with people, get some sun and swim! I thought I was going to come back before everyone else because I was supposed to help do something for one of the guest entertainers at 3, but everyone else ended up comig back with me. I made it back just in time, literally ran to the room to change and ran upstairs, sand on my feet and salt in my hair but I was there on time, when so many other people didn’t even show up. We didn’t really know what we were going to be doing until we got there, but it wasn’t bad, all we had to do was take labels off pans and stuff, throw out any that could cause injury and count them all. The guest entertainer group we were doing this for is called “Recycled Percussion” and they have a lot of crowd interaction (thus the pans we had to count. They have a crew show at midnight after their normal shows tomorrow so I’ll see how they are then.
After that, I finally got to get all that sand and salt off of me and head to dinner, then work. Nothing too exciting there, so glad we’re mixing tweens and kids because I don’t think I could handle all these kids by myself, they don’t like to listen and most of them English isn’t their first language.
December 10, 2013
So, I haven’t written in a few days, I’m sorry. I haven’t been feeling too well the last few days and it got busy before that.
The end of last cruise was alright with the kids. I had to do pirate night on my own though, in the kids room. Change of environment with 12 already-hyper and nearly uncontrollable 3 and 4 year olds? Not the best idea. Far from the best theme night I’ve had, actually it might even have been the worst. I was exceptionally glad when it was over.
I did have after-hours one night, of course the same night as the Recycled Percussion crew show, but I was only a few minutes late for that. The kids played MarioKart the whole time, their parents came at midnight and I quickly cleaned, ran downstairs, changed and made it to the show by 10 after. It was actually a pretty awesome show! They have talent, partially music, partially gymnastics-y stuff, partially showing off with drumstick tricks.
Today was a busy busy day, exhausting really.
I woke up and went to the infirmary. Should’ve thought more about that, the crew doctor pretty much asked what was wrong with me, gave me some (huge) pills that were somehow already sitting on her desk), told me when to take them and told me I could go. Now I feel like I need to look up what exactly these pills are that she gave me, what are they supposed to do to me? Again, negative experience with a ships crew doctor. Not pleased with that at all, she didn’t even say what she thought might be wrong with me!
After that, I ran up to breakfast before going up to Club HAL early to cover for Natalie so she could go on an excursion, since she took over my gangway duty on Sunday because I was sick. So, I spent from 10 until 4 in Club HAL with a few kids who could never really decide what they wanted to do. Once two of the tweens got there (after lunch), they had something to do (MarioKart, as usual), but the kids needed something new about every 5 minutes. And then, the phone started ringing. Emily called to tell me that I needed to do some training in the Entertainment Office and Passenger Notification training in the front office after work, then Natalie called a few times to get me to bring her a pair of pants from the storage locker, as quickly as possible since hers were in the wash and she wanted to get something to eat. Altogether a crazy afternoon. So, after work I got to go by the locker to get pants, then run downstairs and do two sets of training before I finally got to rest. My throat is still completely sore and for a bit earlier I thought I might pass out because it hurt so bad when I turned around because of a noise. Not my best day, but tomorrow I’m off from noon ‘til 9, so that’ll be nice!
After that last break, I somehow felt great, much better than I’d been feeling over the past few days. My throat was still swollen, but my head felt a whole lot better. Sadly, none of the teens showed up, so I ended up watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (it was on TV), and an episode of Doctor Who until Natalie came back from the show around 11:30. We hung out in the OB for a while, me just enjoying the fact that I was feeling so much better again.
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