Next morning, we went in for breakfast just after 9am. Linda Schoffham, the jewellery craft instructor commented on how I was having a good effect on Peter, since he wasn't normally up at this time, and she was right. Once again Peter had forgotten to put his watch back, so it was actually closer to 8 am! Ah well, more hours in the day for us.
I didn't fancy the show or the quiz this evening, so we retired to out cabin quite early, only to found that our cabin steward had been creating a little bit of art of his own.
It didn't take long to get back into routine, mostly tidying and sorting the cabin this morning and helping Peter get his classes in and out this afternoon. I stopped to have a chat with our cabin steward, and asked him loads of questions about what it was like to work on the ships. He told me that he signs up for 9 month contracts. There are no days off, his only time off was in the afternoons between his morning and evening shifts. This means that when the ship is in port, he can only go take a look in those few hours he has in the afternoon. He told me it was harder for the waitresses and bar staff though, because they often had less hours between shifts than he did. The good news was that he was better off on a ship than he would be in a hotel in his home country of Serbia. For him, the fact that he didn't have to worry about bed and board meant that he could save, and that was exactly what he was doing.
I didn't fancy the show or the quiz this evening, so we retired to out cabin quite early, only to found that our cabin steward had been creating a little bit of art of his own.
Isn't it wonderful? We were absolutely delighted, even if it does mean we can't use the towels to hog the sun loungers any more.
Another sea day tomorrow. Hopefully we'll get up at the time we think it is!
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