Originally I had planned to stay one year in Chicago. I wanted to stay a full year for many reasons such as making it through a winter and making sure I can live in a city for a year because I have only lived in Tampa Bay area and in Gainesville. My hopes and dreams have been wiped away now. At least the hope of living in Chicago for a full year and the dreams of more minimum wage jobs.
I hope you all will join me as I will hopefully continue to massively blog about this next adventure. Kamphey is going to the high seas of… drum roll please.. the CARIBBEAN.
A job offer has been made to me to do 6 months as a stage hand in a theater on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship named Freedom of the Seas. It’s one of the largest ships and offers a variety of entertainment. I am told my duties include: spotlight, sound and audio tech before/during/after shows, maintaining ice in the ice rink, and setting up parade routes.
This all sounds very exciting and I ship out Jan. 13th. Yes in two weeks. Goodbye Chicago Winter hello Caribbean Queens! Goodbye Snow hello Soirees. Goodbye gray skies Hello Gray Goose. Actually I won’t be allowed to drink very much because of safety issues you know being on a boat and all.
Heading to New York before heading to Miami to ship out. Just wanted to see another big city before heading out of the country. Seeing a lot of friends there and a fan of the blog Garrett Bantom while I’m there in NYC. We’ll see what happens in the next two weeks as I get rid of my car and my apartment and pack my life into one large suitcase.
Note: I have a few more posts for My SantaLand Diaries so check those out and I think it’ll be a week or two before I start posting the Cruise Ship Logs.
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Addendum: I decided to forgo my trip to NYC. I thank everyone who responded about meeting up in NY and I hope I can see you all in 6 months when I plan on having more money and no car or apt. to get rid of. I do regret not being able to hang out with you all but for the sake of sanity and not having to rush this whole process even though it’s already rushed I just can’t make the time to get out of Chicago and to NY before heading to Miami.
If you are reading this and have nothing to do this summer let’s make plans to meet up in New York for a week. If you are in a major city outside of Florida let me know if I can come stay with you for up to 5-6 days/nights and I will make plans to visit your city on my break from the ship this summer. (June or July?)
Comment by kamphey December 31, 2007 @ 7:13 pm