Wednesday – Still At Sea

Today, we are still at sea, only one day away from Canada.

The sea has been a little choppy and the weather outside, grey and murky… what many might call ‘claggy’. Visibility has been less than a mile, and the swell two metres. Visibility has been so poor that we’ve been sounding the fog horn. At lunchtime, I sat out on deck noshing on a hotdog before my class, gazing out at the murk, listening to the eerie sound of the foghorn and half expecting King Kong’s island to appear out of the mist, or a spooky haunted ship.

It’s also been a little on the cool side inside the ship, and I’ve become aware over the last day or two that my cabin is actually quite cold. This isn’t normally a problem; usually, the cabin tends to be on the warm side, and the thermostat needs to be turned down to make it comfortable. Last night, however, I realised that I was cold, even in bed, and even with the thermostat turned up to maximum, there is definitely no heat coming through at all. Barbara, one of the other Craft Tutors told me this morning that she had experienced the same issue, and had reported it to reception. After some tweaking somewhere, it was now resolved and they finally had heat coming through. So I’ve reported it to my cabin steward to try and get it sorted (as I write this, in the evening, it still hasn’t been, so the cabin steward has reported it for a second time…)

This afternoon’s classes were on ‘Perspective’. It’s a difficult and challenging subject for many people, but I have to say that both classes performed magnificently, and all went away pleased with what they’d produced (I’m silently punching the air as I write that).

This evening, in the Show Lounge, we were treated to something a little different; a one-woman performance of Willy Russell’s ‘Shirley Valentine’ by one of our UK Guest Acts, Pauline Daniels. Tonight is the first act, and she will be performing the second act tomorrow night. It was actually rather brilliant, and she played to a full house, all of whom I’m absolutely certain will be back again tomorrow night.

Tonight, our clocks have to go back again… but only by 30 minutes. How weird is that? And tomorrow, we will be in our first Canadian port-of-call, St. Johns, Newfoundland. Bring it on…