Thursday September 5th At Sea
Finally we have a show tonight. Manu went to the doctor and he told her she couldn’t dance, which was really obvious to me and everyone else since even walk on her foot. We had to have a 3 hour rehearsal to put me in my new numbers, and re-arrange all the other numbers without Manu.
I was able to take a 3 hour nap, absolute heaven! I didn’t have dinner, because I needed to get ready for the show and rehearse some numbers again before I was thrown on stage front and center.
The shows went really well! I was in all the numbers!! YAY for learning everything now!! I had such a good time. It gets very hot on stage and I was sweating like a hippo in Africa (bad example, I know…but it’s the first thing that came to my mind and I bet you can visualize it!) I am a total weirdo now, this ship is turning me more insane than I was before! LOOOOKOUT!
After each show tonight we had Presentation, we were all hot, sweaty and tired and had to put on our nice clothes and go out to greet people! It was terrible!
I went off to eat and someone told me I had a surprise plate under the microwave, I looked, and there was a special HAMBURGER for me!! I was soooooo happy! It was easily the best food I have eaten on board. It was delicious complete with French fries!
Friday September 6th Bilbao, Spain
I woke up at 730, had breakfast and made my way to deck 6 for disembarkation only no-one was there. I went back downstairs and talked to Era and Norbi for a bit before returning upstairs for duty. We got into huge trouble for being ‘late’. The ship had only just arrived at the port and the gangway wasn’t even set up! We said our adios to the passengers. The gangway was not very sturdy today so all the disembark-ees looked as if they were on a rollercoaster walking down the stairs.
Javier, Filipe, Daniel and I went out, this was Spain and that’s what most everyone on board speaks!. We had to wait 20 mins for the shuttle bus and the trip to the city centre took 30. By the time we arrived we only had 2 hours, so we walked around, looked at the shows, the scenery wasn’t very pretty.
We sat in a cheap old restaurant and got wifi. The food was weird, most restaurants were deli style and they had the sandwiches on plates with cling wrap over them. I suppose you just picked up a plate and sat down. It was very strange.
From the bus window I saw some houses and flats. They all had wooden shutters outside their windows. Most of them were closed and it looked like they were protecting themselves from a hurricane
In America and in England we have a flashing green man to show us when to cross the road. Here in Spain there’s a running green man. He starts off walking, but when the time gets closer and closer, he moves faster and faster until he is running, then it goes red to stop. It was so amusing to watch.
Javier pointed out that no one was honking; everyone on the road was very polite! It was warm outside but cloudy and windy. Everyone spoke Spanish, (duh!) and even though it is not my language I am finding it to be quite familiar.
Cyprian gave me a paper he had written in English and asked me to read through it to check his grammar. I corrected it and handed it back with a ‘D’! We went through the mistakes and he justified his use of certain words so I said, ‘okay then, it’s fine!’ He said, ‘look I’m slowly getting an A because I was correct first and you were wrong!’
I am finding the Hungarian language very annoying. They talk and talk and it literally sounds like hoo-hockey to me!
Roman, one of the dancers, has shoes that squeak every time he does anything on stage. He is constantly rehearsing, so if we are sitting in silence, or Bori is speaking, all we hear is ‘squeak, squeak, squeak.’
The passenger drill came before our two shows today and everyone was so seasick. The boat was moving a lot! We all had to lie down during the performances and sleep, it was pretty terrible!
No staying up tonight, after eating we all went straight to bed!
Well hello there! My name is Vivienne McNeny.
I am an empty nester exploring life as a Boomer…you could say I'm happily Boomering along!
As a homeschooling Mum I have finally quit the job of role model and mentor to my four children. I do what I want to do, eat when I feel like it, enjoy life with my blue eyed cowboy and clean my house once a month or so whether it needs it or not!
In true English form I write about the emergence of my true identity now that I can no longer hide behind my children as their Mum.
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