Good Day from as close to the end of the world as I can reach! I am currently just a couple hundred nautical miles from Cape horn, as well as only around 400 nautical miles from antarctica! It's crazy, this is not something I ever imagined.
Well to update you on dinner, it was great! I only had one glass of wine with dinner as I was worried about more wind last night and I did not want to be dehydrated! But no worries, it was not windy enough for me to get seasick! Hopefully I am over that now - please keep your fingers crossed for me!
My mother asked me today what exactly do I do on the ship? So I will tell everyone as I'm sure some of you are wondering. My title on the ship is Junior Purser, and I work the in the bank mostly. In the bank we exchange money for guests (and crew) Give the guests smaller change so they can tip the crew, and the crew bigger bills so they don't have all $1 bills...It's a great circle...We also help guests with their accounts, they can pay their bills at the bank, as well as make deposits and get account statements. Those of you at ACD and CH will think this is funny - there are NO training documents, so less than 1 week on the job, I am already writing documentation!!!! My life is documentation!!! LOL! We also have some special duties, we assist our supervisor the guest account purser in some of her duties, so far mostly just reviewing and matching accounting records. We also assist the payroll department with stuff envelopes full of cash for paying the crew, and giving out the envelopes to the crew (big day for me on the 28th as I will help with that for the first time). There is also assistance to the documentation purser on embarkation day in assisting to collect passenger passports and other documents. There is definitely some busy times during payroll and the last day of the cruise when guests are settling their accounts, but during the middle of the cruise it can be quite quiet so I will have to start asking for more work - I don't like not being busy!
Thursday and Friday of this week were 2 days at sea, so I spent most of my time working and sleeping, but today we stopped in the Ushuaia port, which is the southern most town in the world. It is a small town, but cute, it has a nice main street with some good BBQ restaurants, I didn't want to take that much time to eat though, so I just ate quickly so I could take more photos! I took some photos of the harbour and the town. The mountains here are very pretty and remind me a little bit of Bella Coola, I enjoyed my time here even though it was only 2 hours.
So tommorrow on Easter Sunday we will travel to Cape Horn, we will not be able to get off the ship, it is just cruising past it, before heading to the next port - our first port in Chile - Sorry can't remember the name of it, I will know it next time I post. I am very excited to see Cape Horn and to take some photos. As well as some other islands here at the southern tip of South America!
Okay, again I promise, pictures will come soon!
Talk to you soon!
Miss you!
Love,
Tabitha
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3 comments:
You are a busy lady! All that cash on the ship...are you nervous? Like I always say, I can't wait to see your photos!
I love your blog. I don't seem to miss you as much, I can log in and check out what you are up to anytime...
It sounds like you are having the most amazing experience (seasickness and all)!
Take care sweetie and keep up with the updates (I do love them)
don't you DARE ask for more work! TRUST me, take all the rest you can, after 6 months out you need as much down time as you can get. 2 week cruises are breezy, but when you start having shorter runs, you'll be wishing for the long ones again!
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