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48 49th handover meeting

7:15pm JST Thursday 19 May 2005

Awesome supa fun meeting today getting mo' ready for the voyage and meeting several members of the 48th Voyage teaching team. We sang songs to them and they did for us (that was the closing of our meeting) after we had some meeting stuff on getting prepared to teach on the boat. I notice that we had lots of meetings. At the end we were talking casually and one of the guys said that there are far too many meetings (Japanese style)and that we should simpley not take anything too seriously; just enjoy the voyage. Anothe guy was like, "you'll wonder wtf it's all about; is this a PB, or a cruise ship?" he determined that it was a cruise ship with a small bit of PB in it. Hmmmmm.

I met Paige near the end cause she looked familiar to me, and seemed like a cool girl either way, but she didn't think we had met. She'll be going to gradu school in Italy hopefully in October; she's just wating to find out now.

While Kim and I walked to lunch a woman asked me if I was single or if Kim was my girlfriend. I said. "not yet" and then covered my mouth like, "did I say that?" but she didn't look surprised. She's tall and nice. What in the world am I thinking?

Oh, one cool thing: there's a guy named Asam (maybe) who is from Port Said, and can give us all the details about the cool places to go. He works in the restaurant, and is the tallest guy on the boat.

The teachers were like, "you'll see the pyramids, and that's all I'm saying."

I think it's going to be gooooood.

Oops

7:22pm JST Thursday 19 May 2005

Holy cow ooooooops!!! Audrey (oh my god) called me as I was just arriving at this trin station (not too far from Takabakabaka, but) saying that I had left my suit case there, and I was like, "yeah" and when was I going to pick it up?

Crap.

I thought it was going to be brought to te ship from the office. Crap crap. turns out that I should be able to get it from the PB office after the play. People will likely be up there late, though she will not. I also need to get a map to the ship, cause as of yet, (I realize) I don't know fo sho where it is.

I want to reward Audrey somehow for covering for me; I woulda been less one suitcase. It's interesting; I was thinking about its well being as I headed toward the station; realizing I was walking into the unknown without it; I might never see it again. I was okay with that. And it came back to me. Awesome.

Steel Magnolias

7:20pm JST Thursday 19 May 2005

Right now I'm on the Front Row of the theater to watch Steel Magnolias (which I keep spelling as "Stell") starring Louise as the character Julia Roberts played in the movie. Louise is from Brisbane, and she's gotta do a southern belle accent. I look forward to it. I hope to be impressed; I 've never heard her try it.

8:43pm

Intermission.

Louise's accent is pretty good, thought i can hear her voice on occassions when she speaks too quickly or her charcter gets too excited. But on other occassions she speaks quickly and keeps it.

Must be quite a trick to learn a new accent. Especially OZ to Belle.

I didn't notice when she began to have her insulin shock; that scene really grabbed me; I was like, "Louise!!! Are you okay?" (in my head.)

The last scene I assume will be shorter than the first two. They are presumably changing the set now; it's been in the beauty salon for the first two: pre Shelby's wedding and Christmas with Shelby 3 months preggers.

A couple of times, when the grouchy woman was ranting, Louise seemed to laugh beyond what her character should. I wonder if she was close to breaking character. She didn't make any noises, but she seemed close to like busting out laughing.

9:36pm

A couple of words: "thing" "thing" and "that" plus something after the cranky woman said something. These were in the third scene.

Final scene is next; this is lasting longer than I thought; I hope I can get my bag okay.

ZZZzzzzzz last night before P to da B!

2:00am JST Friday 20 May 2005

So; this is it. The last night before I'm on PB for 100 some odd days! I got my (Jimmy's) big suitcase home without incident, dropped off my big box to Elvis' room and got my deposit money and prorated (?) rent back, and said HI / bye to Marky Mark, Ikumi, Shoko, and Anthony. Hitomi cooked the remainder of the food that was in my fridge (eggs, sausage, noodles, etc) as I talked to Mark.

I'm defiitely getting the feeling of "too tired; just finishe" like don't orry about details; just get some shit done.

2:31am

Awake again; got pictures of my byebye note to everyone. Hitomi determined I need to leave here at 9am to get to the ship on time (10am).

But, I can't get them online cause all the transfer cables have already been packed and sent to the ship.