It was my purest intention to blog regularly, however now that I’m on board and so I’ve discovered that maintaining a ship life is busy and full-on, to say the least. The crew is like one big happy family continually supporting each other & keeping each other’s spirits up. The team I currently work with are good fun and we provide very lively glass blowing shows. People seem to enjoy the demonstrations and are amazed by our ability as well as our “seamless” adaptability especially when its blowing a gale, the rain is teaming down and we have a cross wind raging through the hot glass stage which seems to play havoc with taking the heat out of each piece we make. Hence the rate of survival for the pieces we make during these extremities is minimal. The Hot Glass Show area is on the top of the ship which makes for a challenging performance in such squalls. As I’m so addicted to glass making, I felt a need to get making as quickly as possible. The work to date that has survived was a “You Design it we make it” show where we use a little bit of artistic integrity to recreate a drawing selected from the youth programme on-board. Also to date I’ve made a bowl and a vase, so that I could get into the swing of things, adapting to the system of operation; the equipment; my team, who I’ve never really worked with before as well as the extreme humidity and the beautiful sunshine. Our temperature gauge read 140 degrees Fahrenheit humidity on Thursday. Each day I go through two shirts and two pairs of shorts due to the amount of perspiration my clothes absorb. Attached is a couple of pictures. Tomorrow we will be visiting Grand-Cayman Island, which at this point in time is approximately 675 nautical miles away, yee-ha!
Caribbean debut
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