Seasons greetings!

A spot of Canoeing on the beautiful (and hot) Mystery Island

Another ahoy from the Dawn. Bit of a strange one now though, because it is now December 27^th and I was due to disembark on December 12^th but oops! I’m still here.  My contract has been extended another month. But all is good because I could use the extra $$ and I’ve been up to loads of mischief.

So a few updates- mostly about the parties we've been having; because hey! what else is there to do when stuck on this metallic, oceanic prison?

Oli held a sick after party the other week, inc. his life jacket flashing lights, flippers and the cargo net. Making an appearance from the 3^rd in charge of the whole ship and also our boss’ boss (to be) and an unwelcomed visit from the night manager telling us to keep it down.  We’ve also been invited into the Wardroom quite a few times (the Officers Bar) and despite bundling the Destinations Manager and wrestling on the floor, me and Oli keep getting invited back!

Crew Bar Antics

The Edge team recently got introduced to PreWorkout. Not because we’ve been going to the gym but because it just makes us crazy hyper and results in us staying in the bar until 5am playing makeshift volleyball. So for a while we had a little mafia-preworkout-drug-ring going on, some under the table deals for a scoop.

Taking my job seriously and planking on the flying fox

Kids have been class recently. A couple of weeks back we had a kid called Coby and his Mum, Tracy. They were nuts! We’d put Coby in a helmet and harness for Lasertag, saw him in the Waterfront restraint and it resulted with us all eating a piece of cake with our face. On his last night we wasn’t at the passenger bar; so I’m in the dungeons then I get the nurse and security come up to me like “Becca, why is there a child running around the crew only area shouting “BECCA”?” So I make my way to the pax bar and he’s there and we did a conga haha.

 

Sophisticated with my fishing hat and doubled up drinks

Merry Christmas from the Dawn <3

This being the Christmas cruise everyone is in a great mood. We’ve finally hit some new destinations. Isle of Pines, Mystery Island and finally FIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!! Where we hit up some mud baths in celebration of Abi T’s birthday. Bula Bula. Also had a party every night, crew bingo, glitz and glam, engineers party, cambusa party. Tis the season and all that! The Engineers party was a laugh and resulted in everyone (3 stripes and below) getting dunked in the ice water where the drinks got kept in and some very bad karaoke.


We’ve lost Jordan from the team but we’ve gained Terry who used to work for the same company as me. He likes a party and Jordan’s happy to be back in a the free world again so smiles all round! We also lost my partner in crime and foosball, Kayleigh who has been taken from us and transhipped to the Pacific Explorer. But it does mean we have Abi T back, aka the Boss Baby.



 

Apart from when we’re drawing back tattoos on each other, stealing name badges or tools, defacing Andre’s work uniform. We do usually behave. I added a bit of sparkle to the ship the other week. The Safety Officer held a party in the Bosuns store. It was amazing. There was strobes, smoke machines, free bevvies and a shittone of glitter. Everyone was coated from the whole ship. The carpet on deck 12 to the arseholes of a few engineers. A few of my favourite quotes from the following day:

“Becca, my arsehole is full of glitter!” (read funnier in an Italian accent

“Becca, you have got a bounty on your head. You are the most wanted person on the ship”
“The Bridge was like a disco ball”

“OMG on induction you could see glitter in all the senior officers hair!!!”

“When I was delivering induction I just picked on everyone in the room who was covered in glitter”

“AHHH so you must be the Edge Instructor responsible for my whole ship being covered in glitter?”

– The Captain

Christmas on board has been strange, being away from home is always a weird one. But being at a resort in the Pacific Islands is a great alternative! Every day for the past 6 months on board have played Feliz Navidad (you know- the Spanish Christmas song) and normally everyone gets annoyed, upset and even angry. But it kicked off in the bar the other night. Spirits and high and the amount of spirits ordered- even higher.

So, after our first few awkward encounters ; me and Captain Alan are best mates now. He jokes about me being responsible for all his bridge officers showing up for work covered in glitter and wished me a good night at the party and commented that he’ll know how good it’s been by how messy the ship and his staff are  the next day! And on Boxing Day we even shoved Captain Alan down the flying fox (or flying Whale as he renamed it). He even got us a Christmas Card and a box of chocolates!  Legend!

As previously mentioned- I love to feel important on the ship. Whether it’s been because I’ve been granted a pager or for whatever other reason. I managed to blag my way to being an Observer on this weeks drill. So I basically had to follow the First Stage Response team and watch how they responded to the “fire” on board and make some comments on the Bridge for  the debrief afterwards.

AND I FINALLY WON AT FOOSBALL!!!!!!!! They held a girl only competition (through request of someone who didn’t even show up?!) and I was given 5 minutes to find 3 other girls to play, so challenge accepted. I was the only girl who “plays” foosball. But it was a close game (“for realllllll”)- but $100 split between me and Emily went down rather nicely!

If we see litter I was told by one of the Bridge Officers that if we see litter go overboard we have to report it to the Bridge. So the other week I see a ballon fly off the ship. So I call then up to report it…

Me: “Hi Bridge! This is Becca from the Edge, hope you’re okay! Just reporting a Balloon has gone overboard”

Italian 3rd Officer Gary:  “WHAT????????”

Me: “Yeah, just reporting some litter. Enviromental damage. A balloon has just gone off the side of the ship”
-Phone rumbles and rattles”

Irish 3rd Officer Caitlyn: “HELLO BECCA. ) WHAT IS HAPPENING? WHO HAS GONE OVERBOARD??!?!?!”

Me: “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! LITTER, TRASH, GARBAGE, A BALLOON!!”

Caitlyn: “ohh! Okay, just report it to Enviromental Officer J”

so later in the week Captain Nixon goes “AND ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BOTHER ME I’M TOO BUSY DOING PAPER FOR FOR A BALLOON” and apparently it’s logged as something like 0.000000000001 cubic meters of balloon!

Apart from going Jet Boating with the shoppies and hitting up some zorbing and Go Karting  with Kayleigh adventures have been out there, and many more for my final few weeks planned.

So that’s my latest update. A few weeks and New Years to go!