Training is over, and we hit the ground running. The RD's are amazing, and the students are great. I am updating this on the back 7th deck, drinking a mango smoothie. It's sunny & warm outside with a beautiful breeze, probably 88 degrees, and the water is apparently 77 degrees. Here are some journal entries from the past couple of days:
June 12th
It’s 7:20 am and I’m already up and showered. What happened to sleepy Lisa? I did take a nap yesterday & was groggy for a while. After 4 trips to the car for luggage & water, I’m feeling it this morning! I am so excited to be back on the ship—again, the smell of the ocean and the scent of the ship—whatever industrial cleaning supplies they use are pretty much the same ones, and it brings me back. I am so excited in general. I seem to be the youngest Admin. Staff (maybe Wade is a bit younger?). Truth be told, I’m also a teeny-tiny bit sad, which I haven’t said aloud, but I loved looking forward to this trip—and now that I know that it’s here, it will totally fly by leaving me like a junkie wondering when my next trip will be! I know, I know, I will be present and I will enjoy it. I just know how fast it will go, but then again, it will also be like a huge Super Cucas burrito, one that I can’t eat or digest all at once, filled with good stuff. Oops--I don’t mean to compare Latin America to a burrito, it was just the metaphor that came to mind. So today for training looks good—the basics, the mission, and later the duty/emergency stuff which I am excited to learn about, as that’s an area internationally I don’t know much about at all.
Our cabin is cute—we have a window out to the world and not onto a deck! Yay, we get to keep our curtains open without people looking in. When do I get my keys? When do I get into the office? When do I make up the training schedule for my staff? Ahhhh!
Other random Latin America Today (the core class that everyone takes) thoughts—the Storyteller & magic realism—I think this trip will be like that, some linear narratives and then lots of magical circular stories with deep Jungian collective consciousness. That, anyways, is what I know.
Saturday, June 16th
Again up at 7am—awake earlier and just not able to sleep as my mind kicks in and starts thinking. Today I have breakfast with the Admin Team and the captain at 8am. I am really, really liking all the folks I work with. Tom, Rebecca, John, David, Wade, Dawn—they are all great, and all characters. Tom, the “Voice” aka Assistant Dean, is particularly awesome—I didn’t even know this guy a week ago, and know I can’t imagine functioning without him! We did our SL presentation yesterday for the faculty & staff, and we got a lot of compliments on it for setting just the right tone. Tom said that even some students came in and were commenting “yeup, that’s true”. And again, I feel born to do this job! Although there are already some students, who are testing boundaries, but we're very clear on where they are. Anne, my Assistant DSL has a great style with these folk. It’s sweet having Tania here—she helped with the presentation & taught me more powerpoint at like midnight the night before.
Ahh, sleep—the gentle rocking of the ship while we’re at anchor in Ensenada—it rocks the right way too for us—side to side instead of feet to head.
It’s 7:20 am and I’m already up and showered. What happened to sleepy Lisa? I did take a nap yesterday & was groggy for a while. After 4 trips to the car for luggage & water, I’m feeling it this morning! I am so excited to be back on the ship—again, the smell of the ocean and the scent of the ship—whatever industrial cleaning supplies they use are pretty much the same ones, and it brings me back. I am so excited in general. I seem to be the youngest Admin. Staff (maybe Wade is a bit younger?). Truth be told, I’m also a teeny-tiny bit sad, which I haven’t said aloud, but I loved looking forward to this trip—and now that I know that it’s here, it will totally fly by leaving me like a junkie wondering when my next trip will be! I know, I know, I will be present and I will enjoy it. I just know how fast it will go, but then again, it will also be like a huge Super Cucas burrito, one that I can’t eat or digest all at once, filled with good stuff. Oops--I don’t mean to compare Latin America to a burrito, it was just the metaphor that came to mind. So today for training looks good—the basics, the mission, and later the duty/emergency stuff which I am excited to learn about, as that’s an area internationally I don’t know much about at all.
Our cabin is cute—we have a window out to the world and not onto a deck! Yay, we get to keep our curtains open without people looking in. When do I get my keys? When do I get into the office? When do I make up the training schedule for my staff? Ahhhh!
Other random Latin America Today (the core class that everyone takes) thoughts—the Storyteller & magic realism—I think this trip will be like that, some linear narratives and then lots of magical circular stories with deep Jungian collective consciousness. That, anyways, is what I know.
Saturday, June 16th
Again up at 7am—awake earlier and just not able to sleep as my mind kicks in and starts thinking. Today I have breakfast with the Admin Team and the captain at 8am. I am really, really liking all the folks I work with. Tom, Rebecca, John, David, Wade, Dawn—they are all great, and all characters. Tom, the “Voice” aka Assistant Dean, is particularly awesome—I didn’t even know this guy a week ago, and know I can’t imagine functioning without him! We did our SL presentation yesterday for the faculty & staff, and we got a lot of compliments on it for setting just the right tone. Tom said that even some students came in and were commenting “yeup, that’s true”. And again, I feel born to do this job! Although there are already some students, who are testing boundaries, but we're very clear on where they are. Anne, my Assistant DSL has a great style with these folk. It’s sweet having Tania here—she helped with the presentation & taught me more powerpoint at like midnight the night before.
Ahh, sleep—the gentle rocking of the ship while we’re at anchor in Ensenada—it rocks the right way too for us—side to side instead of feet to head.
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Hey there friend-are you out there? Been a little busy? Need a little Lisa fix to hear how things are going...all is well here in hometown SB!
love, ro
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