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Hey, Hey!! No mar, (19:51 – Brasil / 23:51 Aqui!)

Acabo de voltar do meu primeiro dia de “trabalho” Oh meu Deus.. taaaannnta coisa pra aprender!! Sou a única novata aqui, então não sei de muita coisa, o que é ruim.. mas td mundo tem me ajudado bastante..
Bom.. cheguei aqui por volta de 8:30 da manhã e fomos direto o RH, lá já comecei levando esporro de um Inglês, que já me contaram, adora passar medo nas pessoas.. e sim ele passou medo em mim, só pq eu nao trouxe um certificado que precisava.. Ele gritava: “Você não deveria ter vindo se não tinha os documentos!!”, ateh q minha supervisora chegou e disse: “é só isso q falta? Ela vem comigo e faz online, e estará tudo pronto em menos de 1 hora” e assim se fez. Liguei em casa as 5 e poko da manha para pedir o numero de um cartão de credito para pagar o bendito curso.. fiz o curso online.. passei e pronto..
Depois disso fui pegar meu uniforme, tds as calças enormes!! E já deixe eles no alfaiate para conserto. Os novos do navio e os que vieram de 2 navios que são bem diferentes do GEM, foram dar uma volta com o Chefe de segurança, o mesmo que gritou comigo de manha.. mas dessa vez ele tava legal rss...Por volta de 6 e pouco tomei um banho, fui jantar e trabalho! Muita coisa pra aprender, mesmo.. td mundo já tem o jeito de falar coma s crianças, já sabem o q deve ser feito e tals.. fiquei mais observando.. mas no final estava ateh brincando de twister com as crianças... paramos as 23:00 e fomos a um restaurante de passageiros comer.. agora meia noite, to na minha cabine... o pessoal foi pro bar, me chamaram, mas ainda não estou muito enturmada então resolvi ficar.

O que posso dizer é que esse navio é gigante mesmo.. minha cabine é pra 4 pessoas, mas por enquanto estamos só em duas, espero q sempre seja assim, pq se entrarem mais duas aqui, não sei como faremos, pois eh bem pequeno o espaço.
Não me senti mal em momento algum, tanto q o navio já estava em alto mar e eu nem reparei, só fui ver quase uma hora depois pq no restaurante tinha janela, pq senão, nem ia reparar q estávamos em alto mar! O navio é enorme! Muito grande mesmo.. já sei me acahr indo pro alfaiate/ lavanderia, pro RH, pro restaurante de staff e sala de meetings... mas na minha primeira tentativa de ir trabalhar sozinha, já me perdi..quem sabe amanhã né? Vou dormir.. beijinhos..

Hey, Hey.. At sea (2:51pm – Seattle / 11:51pm here)

So, I just got back from my first day at “Work”.. OMG, it’s sooooo much things to learn!! I am the only new hire on my department, so I am the only one who doesn’t know a thing, which is bad.. but everybody is helping me a lot..
Well, I got here around 8:30am and went straight to Personel department, and there I started getting the yelling.. the Safety manager yelled at me because one of my certificate were missing, and he wouldn’t accept the copy. He was trying to scare me saying: “You shouldn’t have got on the ship if you don’t have your paperwork” until my supervisor got there and said: “She will come with me and do it online.. and it will be ok” and that’s what I’done… called home at around 5am in Brazil, to get a credits card number to get the course done… did it, passed it, and everything is fine now.
After that I went to get my uniforms, all the pants were huge, and I left at the tailor’s to get it fixed. All the new hires and some people that come from a ship with a different configuration from the GEM made a tour with the safety manager, yes the guy who yelled at me.. but he was nice this time. Around 6pm took a shower, had dinner and off to work.!! It is really a lot o things to learn, everybody had other contracts, so they know how to talk with the kids, what to do and everything else, it just watched it pretty much, but by the end of the night I was playing twister with some kids.. we stopped at 11pm and went to a guest’s restaurants to eat something.. everybody I know went to the crew bar, but I decided to stay in, I am not really comfortable yet, everybody is being really nice to me, but I already stalk them all day long, thought I should give them a rest tonight.

About the ship I can say that it is HUGE!!! Seriously… my cabin is for 4 person, but for now we are just 2 living here in this tiny area, I don’t know how we would do with 2 more people here.
About Seasickness.. I didn’t have at all, I haven’t even noticed that we were moving, just noticed when I went upstairs to get dinner and saw the sea moving!! Really.. this thing is huge… I can already find my way to the tailor/linen, to HR, staff mess (our restaurant) and lectures office..but on my first try to get to the kids center, guess what? I got lost ahahahah maybe tomorrow I’ll get it. Iam going to bed now.. Kisses.

Mas por enquanto só em ingles pq to com muito preguiça de traduzir td agora..

Hello Everybody!! Here I am at Rome’s Airport sitting down for more than an hour waiting for my connection flight to Venice. I am kindda scared but happy at the same time. Weird feelings going on here, and I am alone and can’t get the internet to work, so I am typing this on Word to post later on.
I am so anxious that I haven’t slept at all during the flight.. actually I slept 2 hours from the 11 hour flight, so I am extremely tired right now. Good thing I was sitting in the aisle and the passenger from the middle seat didn’t show up, so I had a little space. I will have today free in Venice and tomorrow I am joining the ship. I want to rest a little, but I don’t want to sleep the whole day, I will try to stay as much time awake as I can, so I don’t get jet lag tomorrow.
I don’t really have a lot of things to post. I do have, but it just slipped away from my mind :s Yes a 11 hour flight can make that with you.
There are two other Brazilians that will join a ship tomorrow and will spend today in Venice, they are going to work for Royal Caribbean, hopefully we’ll be able to get together and hang out today, once will be doing the same itinerary most of the time. Ok, so my boarding time is supposed to be in about 15 minutes, I’ll get my stuff together and get to the gate, and try to write something else before I join the ship..
So Iam back.. and there is nothing so bad that can’t get worse right? So my flight to Venice was supposed to leave at 9:20am, but we started getting on board as 9:25 :O we all got onboard and the captain says we got wait for someone that is late for some reason.. we wait.. after about 20 minutes he says that something is going on at Venice’s airport and we can only leave Rome after12:10pm !!!! oh no!!! so we were lucky (NOT) enough to be able to leave at 11:15am.. after we stayed all this time inside the plane with no A/c!! great hun???
So we get to Venice and we wait for about 45 minutes until our luggage gets to us.
At the airport I’ve met a brazilian guy from reception, and 2 Canadian girls that works with the same thing I’ll do for a long time.. one of them is my roommate at the hotel… they said I got the nicest ship to start..hope soo..
I am hungry.. but I don’t want to spend my money, I didn’t bring much.. and tomorrow, breakfast is 16 euros.. it’s a lot!

OMG, there is a lot of Youth Counselors here getting on the ship, but I think I am the only one for a first contract..sooo scared

Love you all!
Take care

"Trago dentro do meu coração, Como num cofre que não se pode fechar de cheio, Todos os lugares onde estive, Todos os portos a que cheguei, Todas as paisagens que vi através de janelas ou vigias, Ou de tombadilhos, sonhando, E tudo isso, que é tanto, é pouco para o que eu quero." (Fernando Pessoa)


Nao queria perder essa frase, entao postei aqui! Logo venho fazer um super post, agora contando tudo o que eu queria contar mas tava mantendo em segredo! Tempo é o que me falta agora!