Day Fifteen: Hmm…Well, let’s see!

Well, today I had embarkation duties. I thought I was going to have to tell passengers how to foind different areas on board the ship and I was totally freaked out about it. I can’t find half of the stuff on the ship still, and I’ve been here for two weeks! Luckily, thye needed someone to sanitize the passengers before they boarded. Any time people get on board the ship, they have to be sprayed with hand sanitizer. It’s our way of hoping to avoid any bacteria or viruses. Because of all of that, I was unable to get off the ship in New York today. That totally sucked. Did I mention that my camera is no longer working? I figured out after about five days that one of the waterproof seals moved out of place. So now my amazing camera is an amazing paperweight. I wanted to go to Best Buy to buy a new one, but I didn’t get the chance.

We were supposed to leave New York at 4:00, but we were waiting on some delivery so we didn’t end up leaving until after 6:00. That kind of sucked too because I wanted to watch the sailing. We had to be at work that evening, so I didn’t really get to see anything. We did see the Statue of Liberty from the Garden Café which was neat.

We got a new group of kids today and this week I’m working with the 10-12 age group. When I originally came on board, I wanted to work with the older kids rather than the little bitties. I don’t think that’s the case any more. These kids just kept talking when we were trying to give directions and you could tell that some thought they were just too cool for school. The attitude can sometimes be that they really don’t want to be there. I think it’s extra hard because if it were a classroom I would just make them follow the rules but since this is their vacation it’s completely different.

Also, starting this week the 10-12 year olds will be in a different room away from the kid center. Instead of deck 13 aft (back of the ship) where the kid’s center is, we are on deck 12 forward (the front of the ship). We only had to transfer once tday, but it was hard on both us and the parents. The parents didn’t know where their kids would be, and half the time we didn’t know either. Plus, we don’t have a first aid kit, any of the supplies, any music, or TV. We have to lug it all everyday. And there are cabins right below our room, so we’ve already gotten complaints about being too loud. To help prepare, Rainbow Fish stayed with me for about 30 minutes so that we could gather some of the things we would almost always need. . It will definitely be an interesting week