Back to work!
Door: Linda
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20 Juli 2014 | Frankrijk, Rouen
Well, my vacation is over and it is back to work for me!
I did have a great time seeing everyone again! I’ve spend some time at my dad’s in Arnhem, where my brother Ben brought my bunny Belle, so I could start cuddling her again! And we celebrated my birthday in Almere, at my brother Eddie’s house. He had asked me if he could send out the invitations, since I had such a hard time getting a good connection at the ship..so I told him he could and gave him a list of people to invite. I should have thought twice about his offer!!!! Because of course he would invite more people as a surprise for me!haha Here I thought I was going to have a nice and quiet birthday and when I got to his house, the whole livingroom was full of people! It was a bit of a shock at first, but it was also good to see everyone again! My dad had made a piggybank for me with a stupid picture of me in uniform, which I also should have thought twice about before sending it to him! But it was very big and very nice, people were asked for Donations, so I could go out and buy a tablet to bring to the ship with me. I hadn’t gotten any cards for my birthday and I was wondering about that, maybe they had all been send to the ship, but now I knew what happened! Everyone brought their card and put some money in it to give to me! So that’s where they were!
Eddie and Caroline could not be at the party, because they had booked a vacation to Turkey before they knew when I would be at home. But they had made a little video saying that the beach in Almere wasn’t really doing it for them, so Turkey it was, but they hoped I would have a great day! It was really nice. After the party I stayed with my mom for a couple of days. Didn’t do much of anything there either.
I did have some really nice sunny days though, I got a nice tan! When I got back to the ship everyone was asking me where I had been!haha My dad and I found a tablet, I have bought a Microsoft Surface 2, with the usual Windows programs so I can still write all of these blogs! And it came with a free keyboard, I chose a blue one, since everyone has black! Since I also want to watch movies on this thing, we bought a external dvd player, of which the salesperson assured us it would work..but it turned out that it didn’t . I didn’t have time to put my favorite movies on an external harddrive, so that’s too bad. But the good news was that we hadn’t paid for it, because the salesperson forgot to put it on our bill!! Idiot!!!
Monday the 14th I had to go back to Paris, to catch the ship. I had an itinerary telling me to take the train to the airport at 12:15, to change trains at the airport, with a 4 minute window…which wasn’t all that much, but it would be on the same platform, so it would be okay…
We had to wait to get into the platform at Utrecht, then when we finally got there,there was an announcement saying we would have a delay of 5 minutes…with 4 minutes to spare, that would be tight, but most of the time 5 minutes can be caught up with…right after that announcement came another one saying they weren’t going anywhere at all, because of smoke in the tunnel going to the airport…what!!???? So that got me worried!! The next traintime to the airport came and went from the board, so I went up to the desk to ask what my options were and they adviced me to take the train to Rotterdam, since that is where the Thalys to Paris also stops. SO that’s what I did, nothing was going through that tunnel at the moment, so I couldn’t miss the Thalys there. And I didn’t, it was coming with a delay of about 25 minutes, which gave me enough time to go to the toilet!
In the end we had a 30 minute delay and didn’t make up for that. I arrived in Paris around 5 pm, it was very busy. I had already been warned about that, it was a National Holiday and for some reason that attracts tourists, while all the Parisian people are getting out of the city! I got on the Metro and go to the ship. So I had a good vacation, just don’t like to have to say goodbye again for such a long time, but it was too short!
Now I’m Senior, because Jayson is on vacation and I think I’m doing okay. I didn’t get to sleep in my own cabin when I got back, there has been a couple of changes in my absence, so I had to spend one night with the Souschef…who turned her cabin into a freezer and it turned out she snores too! So my first night wasn’t all that good! Tuesdays are always heavy days with closing down one cruise and opening a new one, but I have managed to do it! Then I moved to another room, I’m now sharing a room with the hairdresser, which is much better. She’s very nice and our working hours are pretty much the same, so that’s good.
So the first week of being a Senior is already almost over! It took a while, but I think I’ve got my groove back, talking to the guests, I already have a couple of interesting booktitels lined up and I even got a compliment from our cruisedirector,…eventhough we all think it would be nice to see her go! She’s not a really nice person, when we ask her something, she’s most likely to bite our heads off!
But now worries, next week comes a cruisedirector who’s nice and whom I can really get along with, so all is well! Although, he likes to make a lot of copies of papers to hand out to the guests, but we are having a problem with our printer!! WE are not able to print anything from our computer and doublesided is really a problem, for a company that lives on copies, this is a big problem! We have already had someone come over to fix it, but his idea of fixing it was that we had the wrong size paper in the printer…while we have been using that since the beginning of the season and never had a problem. Turned out that something was broken, which needed to be replaced…well so far we haven’t seen anybody from that company to come and fix it for us..so now we have had to print the menu’s for the guests on the HP printer, one by one, because there’s no other option. Which takes a lot of time, plus it is more expensive, because the toner for this printer is more expensive then the one for the big printer!! O well, hope all is fixed before next week!
Love Linda
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