Had a good week this week, not much went wrong ang I´ve started sorting some stuff out in HS so it´s easier to use and find things!
Dom´s parents were on this week which was nice. It makes such a difference having people´s friends/parents on. Can´t explain why but it does! We´ve got quite a few coming on over the next few months. Today one of the guys from the office is on checking on us. He´s on for 3 days it was supposed to be a week but we´re getting excellent scores for the entertainment product so they´re not that woried about us.
I´ve realised that I havent really explained what I do all day. It changes everyday but as a general idea:
2pm - Check on Sound System for Quiz
4:30/5pm - Change Background Music (& lights/gobo´s - for theme nights)
7pm - Quiz in HS
9:45pm - Quiz in HS
11:30pm - Quiz/Cabaret in HS
12:00 - DJ ´til 3am-ish
3am - Close Disco, Tidy areas (change music/Lights/Gobo´s - on theme nght)
ON DUTY - 4pm-8pm (Have to be on Ship)
I DJ 4 nights a week, usaully the first 3 and the last 1. Sometimes I haev to do stuff for the main show. On the day at sea I do a backstage tour and then SM "Hobson´Choice" at 1pm. Ohter morning´s I have to put a film on at 10am and if football is being shown in HS I have to set that up.
So there you go. My day in a nutshell. Tomorrow is hard because I have to be up at 9 for a lifeboat drill. I then go back to bed or go and lie on the beach (we´re usually in Gran Canaria) I think the bed option will win tomorrow!
Friday, January 28, 2005
Friday, January 21, 2005
All Change
Been an interesting week.
For the past 2 days I feel like I´ve been in an Agatha Christie novel but can´t go into details for now.
Had a spectacularly bad evening on Tuesday (Technical screw-ups etc) but the next day it was all sorted so am fine with it now. Actually starting to feel like myself instead of whoever I have been for the last 5 weeks! Getting to know people and starting to feel like I fit in so all is going well.
I found out yesterday that the company want to extend all of our contracts until June 17th. This would be amazing as we are sailing around the Med by then (that was news to me too!)but it would mean missing my Mum´s important birthday (!?) so dunno yet......
Today is a busy day for the team.
It´s Dominique´s Birthday
It´s Anthony´s Birthday
Daniella left this morning
Hannah officially starts back today (she broke her ribs during the rehearsal period and Daniella stepped in)
Had a bit of a rough day at sea (Tuesday), a storm was brewing and it was touch and go whether to leave, we definitely made the right decision to go though. The Storm changed direction and headd straight for where we sailed from!
For the past 2 days I feel like I´ve been in an Agatha Christie novel but can´t go into details for now.
Had a spectacularly bad evening on Tuesday (Technical screw-ups etc) but the next day it was all sorted so am fine with it now. Actually starting to feel like myself instead of whoever I have been for the last 5 weeks! Getting to know people and starting to feel like I fit in so all is going well.
I found out yesterday that the company want to extend all of our contracts until June 17th. This would be amazing as we are sailing around the Med by then (that was news to me too!)but it would mean missing my Mum´s important birthday (!?) so dunno yet......
Today is a busy day for the team.
It´s Dominique´s Birthday
It´s Anthony´s Birthday
Daniella left this morning
Hannah officially starts back today (she broke her ribs during the rehearsal period and Daniella stepped in)
Had a bit of a rough day at sea (Tuesday), a storm was brewing and it was touch and go whether to leave, we definitely made the right decision to go though. The Storm changed direction and headd straight for where we sailed from!
Friday, January 14, 2005
Back in Santa Cruz
well here we are bcak at the beginning!
Here as promised is a photo of my Birthday pressies:
Here as promised is a photo of my Birthday pressies:
Isn´t the dog cute! I´ve put a fair few more photo´s up on my group so if you follow the "Snap´s, Photo´s and Pic´s" link in the sidebar you can peruse at you leisure.
Had a pretty good week. Am definitely settling down now. The Kareoke machine decided to have a ´moment´last night and I remained calm so I feel I have made some progress ;)
We were docked in Morrocco at some point this week (days have ceased to exist!) and I had an allergic reaction to the water in my shower! I think there must have been to much chlorine in it or soemthing (we take on water from whatever port we´re at) and I got out of the shower to find that my legs and forearms looked like a particularly vicious ant had been very hungry! So I had a slight panic (as it continued to get worse!) and then had to get a form to see the doctor.
Not sure where this doctor is from but he´s obviously not seen many allergic reacitons as he told me to go away and come back at 5pm (crew hours). Now I´m a rational person and I understand that there are crew hours, but when someone is standing in front of you blatantly having a reaction to something you DON´t tell them to come back in 7 hours!!!!! Anyway I stood my ground and he gave me some Clarityn and some gel to take the lumps down. The redness went by the next day so it wasn´t too bad.
Must go and get supplies for the week - Cola and Sweets!
Saturday, January 08, 2005
Rollercoaster
Well, today I do have better news!
Yesterday started out horribly (see post below) but the guys on the ship made it into one of the best Birthday´s I´ve ever had!
Dom and Frank took me out for Sangria and a massive ice-cream.
The Band and all the passengers in High Spirits sang to me when I went up in the evening.
The Executive (Head) Chef (who I collect the cake off for the play) made proper pancakes especially for me.
Laura (Kids Rep) made sure I had company most of the day!
Lorna bought me a massive bottle of Bailey´s, a PEZ dispenser and a Kinder Egg.
Reilly bought me "a watch with number´s on it"(I must have said that I needed one about 7 times last week)which has a big disc with a smiley face on it for a second hand!
Dom bought me a nice box of choclates (Lindt, mmmm) and a cool vest top that says "Miss DJ" in sequins (I´ll have a photo up later). She said she wanted it for herself so it was really nice that she got it for me!
The rest of the guys knew about my presents going missing and I thought I knew what they would be. So they went and bought me the ´Travis - Singles´Album. How amazing are they! I also got a musical card off them, hehe!
Dante and Anthony (SM and Sound Tech) bought me a cuddly dog (that has very soft ears *grin*) which I have named Danton. I am also learning Phillipino from them, another language under my belt!
Passengers bought me drinks, the band bought me drink, Lisa and Laura bought me Champagne and Leah and Kim (effectively my neighbours - dancers on the show team) bought me a Bailey´s.
Then this morning one of the regular passengers (he comes on about every 9 weeks and the Ents team sort of adopt him!)Ron, had the most amazing bouquet of flowers delivered for me!
Then I DJ´d until 4:15 this morning. When I decided I´d had enough because I had a lifeboat drill at 9:30am this morning. Me and Dom got slightly reprimanded for laughing - Saftey (Nikos, v. military guy) gave us a stern word. Ah well, he did say our lines were perfect though!
Yesterday started out horribly (see post below) but the guys on the ship made it into one of the best Birthday´s I´ve ever had!
Dom and Frank took me out for Sangria and a massive ice-cream.
The Band and all the passengers in High Spirits sang to me when I went up in the evening.
The Executive (Head) Chef (who I collect the cake off for the play) made proper pancakes especially for me.
Laura (Kids Rep) made sure I had company most of the day!
Lorna bought me a massive bottle of Bailey´s, a PEZ dispenser and a Kinder Egg.
Reilly bought me "a watch with number´s on it"(I must have said that I needed one about 7 times last week)which has a big disc with a smiley face on it for a second hand!
Dom bought me a nice box of choclates (Lindt, mmmm) and a cool vest top that says "Miss DJ" in sequins (I´ll have a photo up later). She said she wanted it for herself so it was really nice that she got it for me!
The rest of the guys knew about my presents going missing and I thought I knew what they would be. So they went and bought me the ´Travis - Singles´Album. How amazing are they! I also got a musical card off them, hehe!
Dante and Anthony (SM and Sound Tech) bought me a cuddly dog (that has very soft ears *grin*) which I have named Danton. I am also learning Phillipino from them, another language under my belt!
Passengers bought me drinks, the band bought me drink, Lisa and Laura bought me Champagne and Leah and Kim (effectively my neighbours - dancers on the show team) bought me a Bailey´s.
Then this morning one of the regular passengers (he comes on about every 9 weeks and the Ents team sort of adopt him!)Ron, had the most amazing bouquet of flowers delivered for me!
Then I DJ´d until 4:15 this morning. When I decided I´d had enough because I had a lifeboat drill at 9:30am this morning. Me and Dom got slightly reprimanded for laughing - Saftey (Nikos, v. military guy) gave us a stern word. Ah well, he did say our lines were perfect though!
Friday, January 07, 2005
Happy Birthday?
It´s my Birthday today.
Someone between here and England decided to open the Jiffy Bag that my Mum sent me.
And has stolen my presents out of it.
I got my bank statements, my birthday card and some Christmas Cards but that´s it.
Apparently all we can do is report it.
Everyone here has been really great about it.
Maybe next time I´ll have some good news.
Someone between here and England decided to open the Jiffy Bag that my Mum sent me.
And has stolen my presents out of it.
I got my bank statements, my birthday card and some Christmas Cards but that´s it.
Apparently all we can do is report it.
Everyone here has been really great about it.
Maybe next time I´ll have some good news.
Sunday, January 02, 2005
Funchal, Madeira
Well hello from what I have just discovered to be...Portugal.
I found out this wonderful piece of information because the phonecard I bought in Tenerife (Spain) yesterday, wouldn´t work here - ah, the joys of cruising!
I have to go and be ´the computer´for a gameshow in an hour and then we have 2 Cabaret acts, Dominique (Dom) and Frank and then those two, plus Amy and Richard (Cruise Director) for the 'Rhythmn and Blues´ one. Then I have the night off. Me having the night off consists of finishing at midnight - basically I get about 3 hours extra in bed!
Last week was a bit hit and miss. It started off shakey and then got progressively worse as the week went on (to the point of me breaking down in tears during one of the cabaret acts because a microphone failed!), everything I touched seemed to break or go wrong, I was PMS-y, I wasn´t at home for Christmas Day (actually it was more Christmas Eve I missed. Me, Jo and Vix sleep in Vix´s room and I read ´Mr Christmas´- with voices, that would be less disturbing if we weren´t 23,22 and 19!) and I still didn´t really know anyone that well. Also we had a certain passenger on who managed to start 3 fights during the week in "High Spirits"(HS) and there would have been another one if I hadn´t rushed out of the DJ booth to explain to his mate what he was doing!
All in all it was a bad situation. On the plus side I feel much better now. This week I´ve actually found time to relax and not felt like I was under scrutiny so much. Also I've had the time to sit and chat with some folks so am feeling a lot more positive. The thing that made it worse was that I´m not usually like that. I usually settle in to places really quickly and don´t really get homesick, so I was getting mad at myself for feeling like that! I´m going to blame it on the hormones!
New Year´s Eve was fab. There was a massive Deck Party (I was in HS DJing though!) on the Lido Deck and we released balloons and fired the confetti cannon and all the ships in the harbour(Santa Cruz) blew their horns. What made it better was that all the passengers from the other ships were watching our party, hehehe! Only the best at Thomson.
Tommorow is our day at sea, last day at sea we had a force 7 storm, now that was fun. The first time in my life I´ve had to gaffa tape a teaset to the table so it wouldn´t slide off!
STRANGEST MOMENT THIS WEEK: Changing gobo´s (small metal discs with patterns in them that go in front of a lamp to make an effect) at 3 in the morning.....Wearing a ball gown and high heel´s.
I found out this wonderful piece of information because the phonecard I bought in Tenerife (Spain) yesterday, wouldn´t work here - ah, the joys of cruising!
I have to go and be ´the computer´for a gameshow in an hour and then we have 2 Cabaret acts, Dominique (Dom) and Frank and then those two, plus Amy and Richard (Cruise Director) for the 'Rhythmn and Blues´ one. Then I have the night off. Me having the night off consists of finishing at midnight - basically I get about 3 hours extra in bed!
Last week was a bit hit and miss. It started off shakey and then got progressively worse as the week went on (to the point of me breaking down in tears during one of the cabaret acts because a microphone failed!), everything I touched seemed to break or go wrong, I was PMS-y, I wasn´t at home for Christmas Day (actually it was more Christmas Eve I missed. Me, Jo and Vix sleep in Vix´s room and I read ´Mr Christmas´- with voices, that would be less disturbing if we weren´t 23,22 and 19!) and I still didn´t really know anyone that well. Also we had a certain passenger on who managed to start 3 fights during the week in "High Spirits"(HS) and there would have been another one if I hadn´t rushed out of the DJ booth to explain to his mate what he was doing!
All in all it was a bad situation. On the plus side I feel much better now. This week I´ve actually found time to relax and not felt like I was under scrutiny so much. Also I've had the time to sit and chat with some folks so am feeling a lot more positive. The thing that made it worse was that I´m not usually like that. I usually settle in to places really quickly and don´t really get homesick, so I was getting mad at myself for feeling like that! I´m going to blame it on the hormones!
New Year´s Eve was fab. There was a massive Deck Party (I was in HS DJing though!) on the Lido Deck and we released balloons and fired the confetti cannon and all the ships in the harbour(Santa Cruz) blew their horns. What made it better was that all the passengers from the other ships were watching our party, hehehe! Only the best at Thomson.
Tommorow is our day at sea, last day at sea we had a force 7 storm, now that was fun. The first time in my life I´ve had to gaffa tape a teaset to the table so it wouldn´t slide off!
STRANGEST MOMENT THIS WEEK: Changing gobo´s (small metal discs with patterns in them that go in front of a lamp to make an effect) at 3 in the morning.....Wearing a ball gown and high heel´s.
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