1 more month! Crazy! I am 2 3rds done my contract! It’s only 1 more month until I will be heading home. The last few days have been pretty busy! This week I am on teens again but this time I am with Kazoo! It is awesome! We have an amazing group! They LOVE to dance! So far every night we have had a crazy dance party and during the day they do all of the scheduled activities which makes the day go by so quickly! Usually the teens just sit around most of the time, but these guys are awesome. Because I am on teens I also get to go to all the shows with them. This has been awesome! Last time I was on teens I didn't know any of the performers so it wasn’t very exciting but now I know them all and they all wink and smile at me or mouth that they love me. At one point in the show Monday one of the guys was in the crowd dancing on the stairs and he came right in front of me and shook his but right in my face haha. The teens all loved this of course too! The only downside to working on teens is that we work until 1am but this week it hasn’t been bad since we have spent the whole night dancing.
LATER ON
Teens actually turned out to be the best week! Kazoo and i were a crazy d team and our kids were so great! I have done a whole other week since then and this week has been pretty awesome too. I was on 10 - 12s but i seriously worked door about 75% of the time and just hung out. it was really nice. unfortunatly i don;t have time to explain it all right now... but basically im having an awesome time.
highlight of the week ... climbing a mountain in skagway and going swimming at the lake on top of it. UNREAL
thanks for reading :)
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Mary Lou
Here is the picture i promised! Im at the Menenhal glacier just outside of Juneau
So i finally have some time off that i can afford to use to update this blog! So much has happened that i don;t really know where to start but basically i have just been really enjoying myself these last couple weeks. I think i am hitting my stride as far as ship life goes.
One of the things i have really been enjoying is Crew Discounts. Basically i can do almost any excursion we sell for free if there is space. In the next couple weeks i have plans to go horse back riding in the mountains and Kayaking to the Yukon from Skagway... all free. Plus most stores and restaurants in our port cities have crew discounts. 2 days ago i got 1/2 a pound of Alaskan king crab at a restaurant in Ketchikan for 10$... that's unreal.
'One of the things about ship life that isn't so awesome is that people's contracts all start and end at different times. This morning I lost one of my closest friends on the ship to go back to the Philippines. His name is Jonas and he plays guitar in a trio at one of the fancier restaurants on the ship. I am seriously going to miss that guy! Then this week we are losing 3 YCs Eithan, kitten, and Cartwheel are all going home or transferring to another ship. Its really sad actually, every week now for the rest of my contract people i am pretty good friends with will be leaving!
This week we had Mary Lou Rettan on board the ship. If you don;t know who that is she was an olympic gymnast for America and won tons of medals. She has 4 children (all girls) and 2 of them were in my age group this past week. They were such awesome kids and they LOVED me. It was seriously great. They would ask if i was in the center before they signed in and stay right beside me all day. Passengers are given these cards to fill out called style cards about crew members they think did a great job and my goal past about Wednesday has been to get one from Mary Lou Rettan because they sign the bottom. That would just be soooo sweet! She was awesome too a really nice lady!
This week i am going to be on teens with Kazoo who is my go to girl on this ship. It is going to be amazing. I could not be more excited for an age group. I have been looking forward to it for weeks. We are seriously going to ROCK teens!
anyways I need to get back to the ship. But i will seriously try to keep up with this blog thing better from now on!
thanks for reading!
i miss you all!
Harley (High 5)
So i finally have some time off that i can afford to use to update this blog! So much has happened that i don;t really know where to start but basically i have just been really enjoying myself these last couple weeks. I think i am hitting my stride as far as ship life goes.
One of the things i have really been enjoying is Crew Discounts. Basically i can do almost any excursion we sell for free if there is space. In the next couple weeks i have plans to go horse back riding in the mountains and Kayaking to the Yukon from Skagway... all free. Plus most stores and restaurants in our port cities have crew discounts. 2 days ago i got 1/2 a pound of Alaskan king crab at a restaurant in Ketchikan for 10$... that's unreal.
'One of the things about ship life that isn't so awesome is that people's contracts all start and end at different times. This morning I lost one of my closest friends on the ship to go back to the Philippines. His name is Jonas and he plays guitar in a trio at one of the fancier restaurants on the ship. I am seriously going to miss that guy! Then this week we are losing 3 YCs Eithan, kitten, and Cartwheel are all going home or transferring to another ship. Its really sad actually, every week now for the rest of my contract people i am pretty good friends with will be leaving!
This week we had Mary Lou Rettan on board the ship. If you don;t know who that is she was an olympic gymnast for America and won tons of medals. She has 4 children (all girls) and 2 of them were in my age group this past week. They were such awesome kids and they LOVED me. It was seriously great. They would ask if i was in the center before they signed in and stay right beside me all day. Passengers are given these cards to fill out called style cards about crew members they think did a great job and my goal past about Wednesday has been to get one from Mary Lou Rettan because they sign the bottom. That would just be soooo sweet! She was awesome too a really nice lady!
This week i am going to be on teens with Kazoo who is my go to girl on this ship. It is going to be amazing. I could not be more excited for an age group. I have been looking forward to it for weeks. We are seriously going to ROCK teens!
anyways I need to get back to the ship. But i will seriously try to keep up with this blog thing better from now on!
thanks for reading!
i miss you all!
Harley (High 5)
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Past 2 Weeks
Hey everyone!
sorry it has been so long since my last post! I have been having a blast here! I would say the highlight of my last 2 weeks was this past Saturday in Victoria. We met up with some of Kazoo's friends who live there, went down to the beach and had a bonfire and hung out. It was seriously just so much fun, and felt like something i would actually be doing in my real life outside of the ship. It was kind of refreshing.
i really need to go now and get to work... but here are some photos :)
sorry it has been so long since my last post! I have been having a blast here! I would say the highlight of my last 2 weeks was this past Saturday in Victoria. We met up with some of Kazoo's friends who live there, went down to the beach and had a bonfire and hung out. It was seriously just so much fun, and felt like something i would actually be doing in my real life outside of the ship. It was kind of refreshing.
i really need to go now and get to work... but here are some photos :)
Friday, July 2, 2010
HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Week 5!
Wow, I cannot believe it has been 5 weeks already! NUTS! Everything here has been going extremely well. I am really getting to know the crew and we just have a lot of fun together. One of my best friends here Kazoo (my roomie from the first night) was supposed to leave here on Sunday but she was enjoying herself so much she asked for an extension and is staying until September 4th now! This week in Skagway we met up with Tyler our local friend again and he took us to this crab shack restaurant so we could sit inside out of the rain to chat. He knows the owner who decided to bring us out an entire crab plus this amazing iced tea and samples of a bunch of other stuff he serves. This guy is awesome he is from Louisiana and just hilarious. We are supposed to tell people about his restaurant for him in return for all the free food and since it was sooooo awesome, that will not be a problem. He also got a picture of us all for the hall of fame and had us sign the guest book and write our names and ship at the top of the page so he can ask the little kids if the know us haha.
Canada Day was celebrated in full last night among the Canadians on board. We all met up at the brew bar and sang the national anthem in French and English. Tonight is the official party because they are combining Canada day and July 4th celebrations. They are serving poutine as the food!!! I’m pretty thrilled about that.
Tomorrow is Victoria so I will be calling home and available on cell phone between 6 – 12 BC time. (or 9pm – 3am Ontario time)
I miss you all!
Wow, I cannot believe it has been 5 weeks already! NUTS! Everything here has been going extremely well. I am really getting to know the crew and we just have a lot of fun together. One of my best friends here Kazoo (my roomie from the first night) was supposed to leave here on Sunday but she was enjoying herself so much she asked for an extension and is staying until September 4th now! This week in Skagway we met up with Tyler our local friend again and he took us to this crab shack restaurant so we could sit inside out of the rain to chat. He knows the owner who decided to bring us out an entire crab plus this amazing iced tea and samples of a bunch of other stuff he serves. This guy is awesome he is from Louisiana and just hilarious. We are supposed to tell people about his restaurant for him in return for all the free food and since it was sooooo awesome, that will not be a problem. He also got a picture of us all for the hall of fame and had us sign the guest book and write our names and ship at the top of the page so he can ask the little kids if the know us haha.
Canada Day was celebrated in full last night among the Canadians on board. We all met up at the brew bar and sang the national anthem in French and English. Tonight is the official party because they are combining Canada day and July 4th celebrations. They are serving poutine as the food!!! I’m pretty thrilled about that.
Tomorrow is Victoria so I will be calling home and available on cell phone between 6 – 12 BC time. (or 9pm – 3am Ontario time)
I miss you all!
Sunday, June 20, 2010
If You Can Dodge a Wrench...
Friday and Saturday were GOOD days. Because i worked early morning on Friday i have the evening off after 6pm which was amazing! i got some time to hang out in my room and be by myself for a while, plus i had a nap and stuff. A couple days ago while at the crew bar one of the musicians (Andrew) and I got talking about dodge ball. Eventually this turned into a challenge. The Youth Councilors vs. Musicians and Dancers. We planned to play at 11pm on the sports court and the following 2 or three days were full of smack talk and pretty awesome. Everyone actually showed up and we played 9 games! it was INTENSE like you wouldn't even believe considering i was the youngest person playing by far. I was actually very very far from the most competitive of players as well... which just goes to say how competitive it all was. The Yc's KILLED! we won the 1st 3 games easy and it went back and forth after that. Everyone had so much fun that we are going to do it again next week!
Yesterday we were in Victoria so i got off the boat went down town and got some Tim Horton's. It was pretty amazing. It was also the last day with our last batch of kids which was a very good thing. Those kids were just kinda ridiculous. I'm excited to start over with new kids.
I guess that's all for now! Pray for me to have good kids this week. Im on 2 - 5's AGAIN and im already running out of patience for all the crying and lack of understanding so I'm gunna need some luck! Thanks
High Five
Yesterday we were in Victoria so i got off the boat went down town and got some Tim Horton's. It was pretty amazing. It was also the last day with our last batch of kids which was a very good thing. Those kids were just kinda ridiculous. I'm excited to start over with new kids.
I guess that's all for now! Pray for me to have good kids this week. Im on 2 - 5's AGAIN and im already running out of patience for all the crying and lack of understanding so I'm gunna need some luck! Thanks
High Five
Friday, June 18, 2010
Terrible Twos
Okay, so they really aren’t that terrible but 2 – 5’s are definitely a very challenging age group. This week has been exhausting. I have spent most of my days holding crying babies while they scream in my ear and snot all over my uniform/face/neck/arms. They rest of the time however has been pretty awesome. The majority of their program is colouring, dancing, bubbles, stories and silly songs. Actually we pretty much just choose a theme, get the kids to make part of a costume (or colour it in) face paint them, take them on a parade around the ship while singing songs, take them back to the center and play a dance game of some sort, sing some silly songs read a story and then start a new theme. They really love it, and it’s not too bad for us either.
The ports this week have been pretty fantastic as well! In Juneau we took a gondola up the mountain and hiked up as high as we could. There was snow and we got some pretty awesome views! Then in Skagway we met up with the local we met last week (Tyler) and he took us all to the sweet lookout and we walked his dog. We also hiked up a mountain there to a waterfall and a lake that I want to go swimming in later in the summer when it’s a bit warmer. The waterfall was just crazy it was pretty high and seemed to come from nowhere, gorgeous. Today we are in Ketchikan and I had an awesome time. We went to the lumberjack show again because we wanted to see the whole thing, and it was seriously hilarious. It’s exactly my type of humour actually, cheesy, play on words, clever I actually didn't even stop laughing.
I guess that’s it for now. I’m in Victoria (and therefore available by cell phone) Saturday from 9pm – 3am Ontario time. TEXT ME! I want to hear how all of you are doing!
In fact tomorrow my plan is to get to a Tim Horton’s haha. I want an ice cap more than I could ever explain.
Miss you all!
The ports this week have been pretty fantastic as well! In Juneau we took a gondola up the mountain and hiked up as high as we could. There was snow and we got some pretty awesome views! Then in Skagway we met up with the local we met last week (Tyler) and he took us all to the sweet lookout and we walked his dog. We also hiked up a mountain there to a waterfall and a lake that I want to go swimming in later in the summer when it’s a bit warmer. The waterfall was just crazy it was pretty high and seemed to come from nowhere, gorgeous. Today we are in Ketchikan and I had an awesome time. We went to the lumberjack show again because we wanted to see the whole thing, and it was seriously hilarious. It’s exactly my type of humour actually, cheesy, play on words, clever I actually didn't even stop laughing.
I guess that’s it for now. I’m in Victoria (and therefore available by cell phone) Saturday from 9pm – 3am Ontario time. TEXT ME! I want to hear how all of you are doing!
In fact tomorrow my plan is to get to a Tim Horton’s haha. I want an ice cap more than I could ever explain.
Miss you all!
Sunday, June 13, 2010
White Hot Party
Last night the ship had a massive white hot party at one of the bars. Naturally the teens were not allowed in so we have a white hot party of our own in the teen center. They were very excited about this so we all decorated everything white with sheets and they wore white and we even made a dance floor by hanging sheets from the ceiling in a circle with all of our sweet lighting and speakers in the center. The center looked awesome! We cranked the tunes and some of us started to dance but before long stuff started getting a bit questionable so I had to keep slowing stuff down and breaking up couples who were dancing a bit sketchily. Twenty minutes after the party started, it ended and they were all kind of mad at me for basically ruining their party BUT it’s my job and I have to make sure they follow the rules! Eventually they all left (early) and did their own thing. It was not my favourite night, but I did the right thing so a guess that’s just how it had to go. It is Philipino independence day sometime this week so last night all the Philipino crew members through a big performance night with dancers and bands and singers and everything. I only got to see the last 20 minutes or so but it was pretty awesome! So of the performers were legit! One guy sang the song forgiven by journey (whose lead singer is Philipino) and he actually NAILED it. Everyone gave him a huge standing ovation and I was seriously in awe the whole time. This guy can sing! I just wasn’t expecting it at all either; I mean he works in the engine room! They also had a really talented group of hip hop dancers that were crazy good!
A few days later...
The rest of the week has been pretty awesome!!! I really got to know my group of teens the last few days and it was actually really sad saying goodbye to them all. I think ill really miss them BUT today is the start of yet another cruise and a new batch of kids. This week I am working with 2-5 age group so its going to be pretty interesting...
Ill update soon
A few days later...
The rest of the week has been pretty awesome!!! I really got to know my group of teens the last few days and it was actually really sad saying goodbye to them all. I think ill really miss them BUT today is the start of yet another cruise and a new batch of kids. This week I am working with 2-5 age group so its going to be pretty interesting...
Ill update soon
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