A few snaps!

En route to the Lifou Caves 

Enjoy a few snaps from our most recent trip to Lifou!

tanning up at Airlie Beach

S00o0o0o what updates can I give, aside from the obvious coralation between how good the anecdotes are and my alcohol intake? This week has been one of my best ones, out of work. In work, not. Not that that means it's been bad, cause I love my job so anything less than 90% is a bad week!

Last week the accomdation team hosted a party (in the laundry room on deck 1!) whih was a great crack, feed booze, free pizza, drinking games and decorations to mke some deecent headgear out of.
Then this week was back-t-back celebrations with it being Indonisian and Indian indepence day. (not that I ever need an xcuse to hit up Kilo staircase)  It would be disrepectful to not enjoy a bevvie, a dance, a drink (a 3am crew mess, crowdsurf, a all off a chair which i keep being reminded of too, and a pair of lost shoes)  with my fellow crew members! Seeing Oli trying to blend in on the dance floor with his "dancing" was a personal highlight.

In work, passangers this week have been a n n o y i n g, just a bit rude as well (not all, had some real sweet kids who have offered me to stay with them in tassie!). So this geeza has this promo card which allows him 3 free actitives with us. The advertised ones we can't provide as we're by far the busiest Edge team and it's physically impossible, we offer more expensive and unique ones as a substitue. I tell matey boy- call him Bruce- that is is the situation and thanks for the understanding yaddayaddayadda. Next day he comes over and asks again- I'm liken mattteeee- swear I met you yesterday but whatever and I give him the shpeil again. He then points at me and is like NO. NO. NO. (GEEZA WHAT. DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO??) THESE ARE THE ACTIVITES I WANT AND THEYRE THE ONES IM GETTING. So I calmly and politely explain the reasons why we can no longer provide those experiences and it's in our T&C'sthat we can substitute if unable to provide- he calls me a liar but I'm smart so it's like "I'm sorry youre upset sir, however please read between these brackets just here. Thanks :) :) :) ) So he replies THIS IS UNACCEDPTABLE IM GOING TO COMPLAIN TO THE CAPTAIN. Okay mate haha cause Alan aint got anything better to do that deal with you. "Okay sir, you might have more luck complaining to reception but my name is Becca :) :) :) :)

Days off this week haven't been too bad, apart from missing my weekly pizza TWICE IN A ROW from Dominoes. We've hit some quite rough weather this cruise with Decks 14&15 completely closed leaving us with nothing to do other than enjoying the DJ, eating ice cream and doing some safety checks. Lifou last week was spot on, me Emily and Jess who work in the shops went to some caves and had the whole place to ourselves that was pretty rad. I'll try get some videos for you (nobody ever has internet so chasing up other peoples stuff takes ages). Heading there again tomrorow for some more shananagans.

This week I have been CRAVING eggy bread. Not a big demand by anyones means, and I've been trying to think of a way I can get some without breaking quarentine or trespassing into the galley...so they only reasonable solution would be to sleep with the Captain, which is something I would consider for that fried goodness. Imagine, youre in bed and then 4am -phone rings- and it's the captain demanding Eggy Bread- you can't exactly tell him to do one, can ya? HOWEVER upon discussing this with one of my mates from the Bridge it turns out that all I need to do is to smooth talk them and they can order room service to the Bridge. But I will keep you posted on the Eggy Bread Sega.

Dodgy bus rides in Port Villa 

 half enjoying the sunny skies
boss baby

06/08/17

Soooo a few things have happened in the past couple weeks since my last post. Nothing too interesting as ship life can sometimes be a little on the boring side (lack of alcohol, abundance of rules, cabin fever etc). Crew bar has been the good old crew bar, nothing but foosball, the jukebox and some terrible dancing. Same old antics (trying to order Grill at 3am, defacing each other with sharpies, TERRIBLE singing of Bohemiam Rhapsody, Bundles etc).  I decided to spice my life up by 0.05% and get a spontaneous ear piercing in Airlie Beach a few days back.

Work has been great, the usual, working with kids... having them wet themselves in their harness'... throwing up on instructors when they're at the top of the Flying Fox (massive zipline), or at the Titanic Experience (which we have just had our 4th proposal on, and our 4th "yes!". Standard. We also got even closer to those Whales on the last cruise, a mother and baby breaching about 50m away from me when I was at the front of the ship. I can't complain too much about my office when I get to see things like that everyday. Here's picture I've stolen from Oli's facebook. I'm quite lucky to say I've had very few bad office's.

So after a few (somewhat heated) emails to our shoreside team it has been confirmed that I am staying on the Dawn rather than the original (and preferred) plan to get back on the Jewel with my homeboy James. I'd be lying if I said that I was chuffed with the choice, but with nothing I can do I've decided to do what I always do and embrace it. It's a shame because it means I'm stuck doing the same to Lifou, Port Villa and Noumare; Airlie Beach and Port Douglas when I should be going to Fiji, New Zealand, all the Pacific Islands and more. But they always say it's the people you meet who make the experience worth while so for the moment they're stuck with me and that's okay becuase the crew here are great. It also means a few pennies in the pocket for when I set off travelling later in the year.

wreck in Port Vila from a cyclone a few years ago

I'm also here to do a job, which is great because I love it and  after kinda bumming around this winter (y'know lounging around on beaches in Tenerife and bombing it down on the slopes) it's refreshing to have a job I actually care about. We have this motivational incentive called Proud and we have cards that guests fill out at the end of their trip if they want to and I'm making a small collection of those. But not only once, but twice on the last cruise (only 4 days up to Airlie Beach andd back!) I had two young girls, Eliah and Jessie, from seperate families tell me that because of me when they're older they want to do what I do. I forget that working with kids, even for such a short time, can impact their lives so much. I still remember meeting instructors and animators when I was on camps and holidays and the impact they had on me to make me live the life I have now. And even though in a years time they'll probably forget my name and my face it's wicked to know that there's been a seed planted in their brain to stray from the conventional lifestyle of -Education-Work-Marriage-House-Kids-Retire- (which obviously something I strongly DO NOT belive in). And to have parents telling me that "you're all the kids keep talking about!" which is something I haven't heard since the days of the Holiday Village when I was known as Crazy B.

 before a cheeky 3am grill

 

Stephan's last night 

 crew at crew bar

beach partyy

~A few snaps from Port Villa~

got enough fruit?

lunch time with the locals

cooking mama