Busy Day at Sea

13 Jan 08
Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean
Heading South down the East Coast of South America


I can't start my blog today without first saying .... I LOVE MY JOB!! Seriously, I have the coolest job in the world. I mean, running the Cyber Cafe on a cruise ship?!?! My stress levels have gone down tremendously ... I feel no annoyances, frustrations or any of the normal work related things. People are cool, even doing nothing at night is fun .. if you are just hanging out somewhere on the deck. Not to mention I am working on a LUXURY CRUISE SHIP! Did I mention that? Oh and lastly, I am currently on a World Cruise Itinerary ... who can beat that?

Ok so it is 1530 here, we went over one time zone and added another hour, so I am now 3 hrs ahead ofthe East Coast. We are at sea today and tomorrow, then stopping in Buzios on Tuesday. We have a nice smooth ride going on about now, this morning I looked out my "window" haha IE: port hole and saw the waves were a bit rough and were splashing, so I hoped it wouldn't be a bad day, more for the pax thananything else (pax = passanger(s)) If they are unhappy, they will be miserable and therefore I will get part of it when they come into my cafe. :) But the sun came out and the sea smoothed out as well.

I have met a whole bunch of people already. Just kind of getting to know some of them; mostly the ladiesin my area of my cabin. My neighbor Sarah is with Shore Excursions, on the other side of her are Kat who is in Food and Beverage and her roomie Deb who is with Shore Excursions. My roomie is Shanessa and she is with the Pursers Dept as is my neighbor Kylie, who is on the Crew Office Staff. Since we all live down the corridorfrom the Officers Mess, we usually catch each other there when it is meal time and we aren't working.

I didnt go "out" on my first night, wasnt much going on and I was pooped anyway; last night they had a Star Gazing seminar out on the front pool deck that Sarah and I went out to. It was really awesome. They shut off all the deck lights and the sky sprang to life with millions of stars! What a perfectly clear night sky it was!! We were there for about 40 mins then decided to go for a drink. Went to one of the pax bars, but they were playing Bingo or Scrabble or something :) So we went to the officers lounge where some people were playing Wii. Had a few Coronas and watched. Some laughs and of course more introductions. Some cute guys on board too :) I have no idea who is involved with who, so I am just keeping that idea on the side for now. I have 5 months to enjoy the cuties on the ship, no rush right now.

Just came back from dinner; helping a few people now for my last shift of the day. Whew! Today has been a long day! We were really busy, so my shift's kept running late, not to mention when it was 12, we changed our clocks to 1pm so I lost an hour then too. Had an hour between morning and afternoon to basically eat and go to my cabin to "freshen up" and basically the same for the afternoon to evening shift. Tonight is formal night, so I am more dressed up than usual, but it is quiet here right now so its good :) I got some of my work done for tomorrow; we usually have some sort of promotion to get people in here and using the internet more (IE: buying more time = $$$)

Well I had to stop writing for a bit as I got busy with the Passenger Staff Manager and running some reports. We are finishing up here for the night, so I am going to sign off. Might be a crew bar night :)