One thing about working out here is that we are constantly having to think ahead. Yes, the most important thing is that the current sailing’s worth of passengers have the best time possible, we’re here to create memories after all – but in the back of our mind? Is always the next voyage…
The Crossing is once again looming…and the Crossing, as always, requires a lot of prep work.
Two weeks ago I finished the schedule for the first portion of book club, though I still have to draft the book club guide and the questions (that only takes about an hour), and I have to actually read the book, which is more of a challenge than it might sometimes sound…in addition to that, I just managed to finish redrafting the quiz schedule. That last was unexpected, because my predecessor had been kind enough to prep it for me but then Toffy and I went through and rebranded/reformatted and essentially re-did the entire quiz program before she switched positions, which necessitated the whole thing being redone. Easy work, just time consuming. And in the midst of all that, I’m still attempting to run inventory- though that has rather fallen by the wayside these days as I’ve been much busier than I anticipated.
And of course tied in with all this is dealing with the regular stuff: a near full team change over (only two of us left from when I started this contract), a new cruise director (always takes some getting used), and a whole new crop of passengers to be retrained on the internet system (which is still not working quite as it should).
In about three weeks we’ll hit NYC, and from there we’ll start crossing over to Italy. Once we get there, I’m hoping it’ll be another lovely stretch of good food, good wine and good friends, which is what Italian contracts usually end up being (oooh I so can’t wait to taste proper Italian pasta again!). We just have to not all go mad getting there!
Now…where did I leave that book I just picked up…