July 3, 2014
I’m on teens this week, much less work than last week, but I definitely have a big consistent group. They’re all very talkative and get along well together, there’s not yet been a dull moment this week in the Loft.
I was going to get off the ship with Christine this Vancouver, but we ended up not because Canadian Public Health got on board and Christine had to stay onboard in case they came to Club HAL. I ended up going back to sleep instead of going out on my own, woke up with just enough time to grab a quick lunch before heading up to Open House.
I had to work port day this Juneau. I was surprised that a lot of kids showed up. Gladly though, most of them were older and could take care of themselves for the most part. I helped one of the little ones make a lego tower and all sorts of stuff while the others played MarioKart and other video games. Jordan got back on the ship today, so he came up to visit me for a bit. We finally got to finish the movie we started before he left. Movie night with the teens was fairly quiet. They didn’t really want to do much, most went to the movie in the showroom, so we just hung out in the Loft.
Skagway, we had general drill. So confusing with the new emergency functions we have. Are we really supposed to go upstairs to Club HAL with our life jackets on for drill to freak out the children? Poorly planned procedure in my opinion; they should give us instructions for what to do in case of emergency, and what to do in case of drill, and both for when we are in- and not in-session! Because at the moment, if something happens at 3am, when we’re not in session, we all have to go to Club HAL and call the front office to tell them that there are no children there, and then stay there until they dismiss us to our rafts… actually, our function cards never actually say to go to our rafts, only to take the children to their boats! You can tell I’m not too happy about this.
Anyway, after drill, Jordan convinced me to go get lunch with him where he could watch the World Cup game. It wasn’t as bad as I expected, I’m still not really into watching sports, but luckily, Jordan is decent company even when he’s watching a game, he could watch over my head, and I could turn around and see the TV if anything interesting happened, and we talked through the whole thing as well. Since it was such a nice day, after the game was pretty much decided, we ended up going ‘hiking’ to the same trail we’d gone on my first week here (in the rain that time). It looks a lot different when it’s not slippery and cold and cloudy and covered in water. It’s an extremely easy trail, we ended up just climbing around on the rocks and enjoying the sun for a while before we had to get back to the ship for dinner and work.
I took my DSLR up to the Loft on Glacier Bay day, hoping that it’d be nice weather so I could get some good pictures, not expecting my teens to show up until the afternoon, because on Glacier Bay day, they tend to spend time outside and with their families. I was much mistaken however, as when I got to the Loft at 9:30 to drop my bag off and go outside for a few pictures, most of my teens were already there waiting on me! I pretty much spent the day inside playing cards and stuff. Not what I was expecting from the day, but at least I like this group of teens.
Ketchikan was nice, I hung out on board all morning, went to Club HAL and helped Jordan take the kids to lunch until Jenn got there, then we got off the ship, wandered around, got a milkshake and wandered back to the ship because it was raining and the rain was getting heavier the longer we were out.
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