One Week till Blast Off

Well, really it's one week till I'm on a boat filled with seamen. Hah.

Anyhow, as you all probably know by now, I've gotten a job with Royal Caribbean doing Stage work. I've decided that rather than spending my precious little time writing ten thousand nearly identical emails, I'd just create this handy dandy little blog.

So far the process has been very odd, typically when employers have required drug tests, physicals etc. they tend to foot the bill. Well Royal Caribbean has decided that it's all on me to pay for these mind bogglingly expensive batteries of testing just to make sure I can hear okay and I'm not going to be spreading syphilis to the rest of the crew (probably). My guess is that they get so many new crew members not showing up for their first day's that they've decided not to bother wasting the money. The reason I guess that and one of the many reasons I'm slightly nervous is because we don't actually get to see/sign our contracts until we're physically on the boat, luggage and medical charts in hand.

Anyway, I won't bore you with the mundane details of the whole hiring song and dance, but needless to say it was a bit odd.

Now for the questions everyone's been asking:

-I'll be gone for 6.5 months, and I won't have a phone.

-I'll have access to the internet, and I'll post a mail address soon enough

-Yes I get a discount for family and friends. You can all have a mud wrestling tournament over who gets them.

Anyways, off to take care of more of this medical stuff.

Regards,

Matt