Wednesday – Last Lessons

Today, I held my final lessons of the cruise.

After the alarm clock malfunction of yesterday, I made sure that I was up bright and early, to a 7:30am alarm, so that I could spend the morning painting. I painted yet another iceberg (they realy are addictive), and some gannets from Bonaventure Island, and was in the Craft Room settting up by 12:30pm.

After the last class, I held my brief ‘Jumble Sale’ of all the work I’d produced during the sessions of the last five weeks, and this evening, after I’d finished packing away the palettes and brushes, and cleaned up for the last time, I just felt drained of all energy. It’s always nice to get to the end of things, but it is like the brain and body just seem to go into freefall and all I really want to do is sleep.

Of course; it’s not quite the end of all things. Tomorrow, we will be in Ireland and then on Friday afternoon, our final day at sea, we will be holding a grand exhibition of everyone’s work.

It’s Formal Night tonight… that’ll be a takeout and a movie in the cabin for me, then…