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Carla's hilarious intro!

10:55am IST Sunday 06 November 2005

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! This is Carla's introduction message to the rest of the PB 52nd voyage teaching team! I'm stealing it without permission...

G' Day Mates

I'm so not Australian but I've been trying to use as much sea/boat/pirate language as I know in preparation for our upcoming voyage.

So I've honestly been meaning to send out this "HELLO..I'm Carla..I'm from Canada...blah blah blah!!!" email for days now...but I've kinda been putting it off (don't say procrastinating) cause I really have no idea what to write!!!! I have never been at a loss for words......never......but as your introductions have been coming in...I've been trying to recall how well I must have faked the funk in the interview to be a part of such an amazing/diverse group of people.

So my original plan was to wait until all your intros came in..and then I was gonna cut and paste all your good stuff and make myself sound great...but you're a clever bunch and may have caught on to my scam...so I decided against that.

So then I emailed my sister and told her I had to write this intro..and I asked her "What are my good qualities???" And she emailed back..."Tell them you can ski!!!"

So then my roommate came home and I asked her..."What am I good at???"...and she said "Wakanai"..and I said "Wakanai!!!!!!"..and she said "You can ski deshou!!"

So I guess at this point I can tell you that I can ski... albeit not well!!!!!! And I'm thinking to myself...that is gonna be a great asset..to have someone that can ski...on a cruise ship...of the southern hemisphere!!! Sigh!!!!

Anyway..I am so excited about our upcoming adventure together. And to have the opportunity to work with such an outstanding team. I will try to come up with some quality (that doesn't involve chairlifts and bindings) that I can add. I've met a few of you already...of course Rob...my bestest NOVA bud...I was soooo happy to see a familiar name on our team roster...Lisa I believe we met waaaaaaay back in the day also through NOVA. Leo, Daniel and Laura...we survived interview day together so the real deal should be a piece of cake. And of course I met both Kellie and Phil at the Halloween Party and I'm looking forward to meeting you again out of costume (I don't know that I've ever said that to anyone before).

I won't bore you with the details of my life....we'll have lots of time at training, on the boat and in the ports over the next few months to have those "bonding sessions"!!!!! I'm fairly open, pretty adventurous....and will try anything once!!!

I live in the Tokyo/Yokohama area so if anyone else in the area is interested in meeting up for a drink/coffee/ski lesson...before we all meet at training..I'd love to.. so send me an email!!!

OK..I'm gonna go and ...umm..read the dictionary or something. Can't wait to meet you all in person!!!!!!!!

Hugs.....CARLA

My budget through PB52

3:52pm IST Sunday 06 November 2005

I've been a bit concerned about finances, and have put together this budget:

While in Jerusalem, et. al.:

lodging: 25 NIS / day
food:    20 NIS / day
travel:  20 NIS / day
        --------
         65 NIS / day * 11 days = 715 NIS = 153 USD

Then while I'm in Tokyo, et. al.:

travel:  1000 YEN / day
food:    2000 YEN / day
        -------
         3000 YEN / day * 38 days = 114,000 YEN = 963 USD

While I'm on P&B:

expenses in port: $50 / day?

Total around $1300, which would depletes my bank and maxes out my credit card to $1900

Hmmmm.

Suzanne

5:36pm IST Sunday 06 November 2005

How hilarious! I just determined that Suzanne, who I met at the Bil'in demonstration, knows Reevsie, who is on the P&B right now! In fact, I had written to her before coming to Palestine, but she didn't have time to write back. Wow!

We determined this while sitting on the couch in Faisal reading books.

zzzzzLife of Pi

1:17am IST Monday 07 November 2005

Today I nearly finished _Life of Pi_; I have really quite enjoyed the book. I may blog about it tomorrow, and I may not; I may go on a tour of the wall with Ben. That sounds like a good way to get some data for a presentation for P&B people.