8th Day- April 28th

Eighth Day Onboard- Jamaica

                For one of the first times aboard ship I didn’t hear the chains drop or the mooring lines this morning.   I had to get up pretty early (hence why I went to bed early from the playboy party).  I had to do some environmental training.  I didn’t know if there was going to be a test or something so I brought my little green notebook and a pen.  The class was at 10 am and most of the people there were either still drunk from the party or severely hung over and it was very obvious.  One of the ships officers was giving the lecture and he had a VERY thick Italian accent.  The briefing was basically how Carnival deals with different environmental regulations and how the company wants to conserve energy, believes in sustainability, blah, blah, blah.  Every now and then the environmental officer would randomly break into Italian.  It took me a minute to realize that he was speaking Italian and by the time I realized it he switched back to English.  He would tell little jokes to keep the crowd awake throughout the meeting.  I remember one of them was how they recycle the glass bottles.  He warned us not to break the bottles otherwise they wouldn’t be able to recycle them.  He said if we wanted to break the bottle (I assume it was a beer bottle) the best way to do it was to break it over a coworker’s head.  “And what would happen to you?” he said in broken English “scarkrazie” and he made a slashing motion with his hand.  I guess it means that you would be fired.  Another one was his effort to convince people to conserve drinking water.  “What do you drink if you want to conserve water?” he asked “Birra!” he responded.  Most of the class just groaned.  The meeting lasted about an hour and after he let us return to our normal duties.  I went back to the theater where Dave was repairing some VLs.  Apparently we would be spending the day repairing VLs.  There goes my exploring of Jamaica.  We replaced a lot of color sensors, some ballasts, and even some transformers.  This was all new to me.  I never really replaced any moving part in a mover before and sometimes it was difficult.  We ate lunch around 1.  Yes, the crew mess had some pasta so that was pretty good then it was back to the theater for more repairs.  The common problem in most of the “broken” VLs was the color sensor.  We had lots of cues last night that were supposed to be magenta but were um… green instead.  So it was just an issue of hopping in a genie and removing the color wheels and giving them a nice cleaning and maybe a new sensor.  Let me just say that in the past few days we’ve gone through the entire stock of sensors.  Dave emailed the warehouse in Miami so we’ll have some more for next week.  Oh goody.  We had show call at 6:30 so I went through the checklist of what I had to do and which pyro to set.  Yesterday I took my pyro exam (it was surprisingly long and very complicated) so now I am officially pyro certified with Carnival and can load, unload, and fire pyro.