Why Hello all. So this past week, I was in Toronto with Diane. She is a great friend of mine and I love her dearly. I would try my best to talk to her while I was on the ship but with limited internet and phone lines it was hard. So when I came back and got the wedding out of the way and what not I knew I needed to go and see her. So for the past week I was in Toronto visiting her. It was a blast. We always have a blast together. We went out for [View Full Entry]

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After sitting in the terminal at Miami international for what seemed like a lifetime they called the flights boarding number to Toronto. I was so happy to be going home - exhausted but happy. The flight was ok, I was delusional, excited and overly tired. I had been up for almost 24 hours. I just wanted to sleep. But sleep wasn’t an option. There was a young girl, who was resting beside me for most of the flight home, and then she started to cry, her ears would not pop. There was a lot of turbulence on the flight and [View Full Entry]

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Alike any other week, my last week on the ship was full of all kinds of hilarity, scandal and drama. And I sit here in the airport reflecting on it and can say that I will miss it somewhat. When ever I go on vacation or even a road trip I tend to make a CD with all of my favourite songs at the moment so I can always listen back on the CD and relive the experiences. When I was preparing to leave to come to Carnival, I thought about making a CD to bring along, and then realized [View Full Entry]

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I often say, “ The Eagle has landed”, whenever I land from a flight - well now I mean it. That’s right poppets, Brooks went Sky Diving. I decided that I wanted to do something that was so extreme and so memorable that I couldn’t resist. And then the thought came to me. SKY DIVING. Why not!! I had been talking about wanting to go sky diving for some time with my friends on the ship but never actually thought I could get the nerve to go. When I was at Star Centre, Jeanette and Marlize went, and when I [View Full Entry]

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There’s no place like home. All great things must come to and end, isn’t that the saying??? Well I want to say that that isn’t true. My contract with Carnival is over in a few days and I want to take this time to thank a few key people and reflect a little. I have seen and done some amazing things over the last six months. Be it, walking through the French influenced downtown of Martinique, sneaking into exotic resorts, hitting up the Boat Yard with fellow crew in Barbados, going on tours with the Tour Guide or be it lounging [View Full Entry]

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So this week, I am at the RTM Star Centre for Maritime Officers in Dania Beach, Florida. I am being sent here by Carnival to get my Simulation, Training, Assessor, and Research Certification. This program is all about Adult Education, Course Development/Design and some Maritime Legal proceedings. When I found out I would be coming to Star Centre I was very surprised and excited. I have heard about this place from everyone that works on the ships, and especially in my department. Not everyone is selected to go to this place so it holds a little prestige for me, which [View Full Entry]

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Apparently I was wrong! Yes, I said it I was wrong, get over it. Red today and brown tomorrow served not to be true. Well kind of. I certainly was red after St. Maarten last voyage, and after two days it turned one Nubian colour of brown. It was an amazing tan. That is until the itching started. And you all know what that means - PEELING….. NOOOOOOOO! Regardless of how much moisturizer I caked on and let marinate my shoulders and upper back peeled - like a baked potatoe. It was actually really yucky. I now look like I [View Full Entry]

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After my entry on what it is like to live and work on the ship I hope you all read this without thinking that what I told you was a complete lie. HAHAHA So as I previously mentioned that this would be our last time to the St. Islands, I made to sure to try and make the most of what I could while I was there. I havent really taken a lot of time for me the past little while. And anyone who knows me knows that my me time when I am home is driving late at night [View Full Entry]

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Okay! I have decided after a lot of comments that I never work from all of you, to write an entire entry on what I do in a day, or voyage. Trust me you will be sorry that you doubted how much I work. This is something that Jeanette, Catherine, Richard, Kristina, Marlize etc… talk about all the time. First I will tell you what it is like to live onboard. I know that I have mentioned it a few times but let’s revisit what I mentioned before. The environment that I am currently in is very intense. And the funny [View Full Entry]

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Continuing from my last entry with "lasts”…. This voyage is our last time that we are going to be sailing to Panama, and Costa Rica. Next week will be the last time we sail to St. Maarten, St. Lucia and St. Kitts. We will be changing runs. This means that our home port will move to Tampa Florida, from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. We will sail to Grand Cayman, Belize, Costa Maya and Cozumel. I was lucky enough this week to have Panama port off. I really wanted to go and see the Panama Canal, and I tried very hard to [View Full Entry]

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