Day 2: Life Aboard a Cruise Ship

Settling into the routine of crew life has been easier than I expected. Admittedly there is the "newness" of it all, but I have found everyone to be friendly and helpful when I cannot find where I'm going. I've also found that different cultures do things differently, and are by no means trying to be insulting. For instance, I've many of the crew members from Indonesia will quickly push past others in the crew mess, but aren't being rude, its just how they do things.

I'd say a majority of the crew and staff get pretty annoyed with the passengers, especially with the recently discounted fares offered during the summer. They were actually offering $99.00 specials on this ship during August and September, and the most "interesting" people were gladly taking this offer. There are few extremely positive people on board and I'm naturally gravitating towards them.

I've been assigned a room temporarily, as the current acupuncturist is still on board until Thursday morning, at which time I take over the job and her cabin. Both cabins are tiny, maybe 8' x 8', and sadly no windows. You have to be a high muckity-muck for such an honor. I'm going to work on getting one of those cabins. Below you'll find pictures of my current cabin, I've put up a few things to make it a bit more comfortable, but not too much as I'm moving in a few days.