Welcome!

Well, here it is. The first entry.

If you don't know me, here's the situation.

I'm the proud new member of the Entertainment Staff on Carnival Cruise Lines! How exciting is that? I had my interview in March, was hired the following week, received my start date about a month ago, and today I finally got all of my travel information. So guess what? It's real! It's happening! In less than 11 days, I start on this crazy adventure.

Let's get one thing straight before you decide to follow me or not. I'm not a writer. By any means. If you're a stickler for grammar, or writing formats or anything of the sort, you're probably going to hate me. BUT, I will tell you that I'm one of the few who understand the difference between there, their and they're as well as your and you're ;) So don't worry, those are under control!

To be honest with you, I'm not sure how often this blog will be updated. I'm hoping at LEAST once a week. I would love to tell you the going on's of the different fleet of passengers each week.

For my first 3 weeks on the ship, I'll be doing what is known as the 'Cruise College' on their ship called the 'Paradise'. My home port is in Tampa, Florida and from there I travel to Cozumel, Mexico and the Grand Cayman Islands. Me, the girl who complains about the heat half the time, will be spending the majority of my next 6 months in the Caribbean. Sweet, right?

A downfall: no holidays with the family. No Thanksgiving. No Halloween. No Christmas. No New Years. No Birthday (yes my birthday is a holiday ;) We go all out for everything. So we got that all out of the way this past weekend. Every holiday for the next 6 months was celebrated, don't worry.

Hopefully I'm going to get my 'pack-on' tonight and get a lot of that out of the way.

Don't know if I'll blog again until I leave considering nothing new should really happen between now and then except for hopefully getting a bag or two packed.

If you want to see my 'witty' tweets from now until then follow @slinky8 on there. If you don't want to hear all the London 2012 updates, I suggest you wait until Sunday to follow me after the closing ceremonies ;)

Later days.

Jodi