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I haven’t been good at properly updating and letting people know what’s been going on lately. I apologize to the friends and family who’ve been wondering and trying to find out. I’ve had a couple of really frustrating weeks and right now I’m not very happy.
While for the most part, this blog was created for my family and friends to be able to follow me while I lived and worked away from home, I’ve always strived to keep the focus on the travel aspect of my work. Professionally, it’s not right to comment in detail on work here, so I’ve always kept that to a minimum. For that reason I’m not going to go into great detail about why everything that is happening is the way it is or the various reasons that I am upset right now. But this being my main way to update people, I’m not going to pretend things aren’t happening either.
I spent my first month of this contract on the Fantasy waiting for my transfer to the Triumph, where I’ve been for the last 4 weeks. It was a hectic transition, but I was very happy to be doing it because I
was where I wanted to be. The plan had been for me to stay on the Triumph until the end of April when I would go to another ship (the Valor) that would still be in port with the Triumph, thus I could still regularly see people and it would be an easy transition.
After only 2 weeks on the Triumph, I learned that I would be transferred to the Destiny in another 2 weeks time. This was unplanned and unexpected. I know that the unexpected is part of being in this industry. But there are various personal and professional things surrounding this change that make it very difficult for me.
I’ve had some fantastic times on the Triumph during the last couple of tumultuous weeks. There are so many fantastic people on that ship right now - old friends and new ones. I love my working space there and know I was doing some great work with my teens. Because I’ve enjoyed being there so much, it makes leaving very difficult. But I’m trying to just treasure those positives.
Tonight I’m in a hotel in Miami. I am exhausted! Movement to and from ships are always
draining, but in addition to that I was doing very little sleeping as I tried to get the most of every moment I still had there. This morning I checked into the hotel and other than getting food from downstairs I’ve only been sleeping, skyping and staring blankly at the television.
Tomorrow I’m going to sign onto the Destiny. I’ve been there before. In fact, I think that the best times I’ve yet to have on ships was when I was on the Destiny the first time. I’ve always been too sentimental for my own good, so I imagine it’s going to be strange to walk up that gangway tomorrow morning. But that’s where I’m headed.
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Sarah Willett
Sorry to hear there's drama. Oh Netter. I wish you the best of luck back on the Destiny and I'm sorry to hear this is all going down. Looking forward to hearing about it all at camp.