Let's Go Saaaaaillling...

so, i have never experienced a hurricane. hurricane bertha is a category 2 hurricane that has been sitting on bermuda for a couple days. apparently it's moving at a rapid speed of 2 knots...which, if i understand conversion correctly, is basically sitting still. so, we're a day late to bermuda (HAPPY passengers!!! ....yeah), and the seas are ROCKY!! we've still done our shows (apparently it has gotten so bad sometimes that the show is reduced to singers sitting on stools and no dancers), but my toe-gripping ability has greatly improved. :o) in other news, i received my first arranging assignment from the show choir in iowa (council bluffs' lewis central high school). it's a song from an alvin and the chipmunks cartoon. WOW. however, i think it will at least be easy chart. i am also making the director a demo track (i'm recruiting blake to sing the boy parts), and it's due by the 26th. tim (drummer) has offered to help me notate drum parts, since that is still a bit of a question mark for me. hooray! my birthday is friday! it's a sea day, so i think we might be having a game night. saturday, i think we're going to go out to lunch together in the harbor. blake's family is here this week, as well as mark's boyfriend, so the audiences have been good. fans on the front row really make it more fun to perform. :o) baltimore in general is a more appreciative audience than charleston. hooray for audience members who don't fall asleep! yeah! our hamilton city street fair show is this week. i'm singing proud mary, respect, knock on wood, and a song by the crusaders called street life...i don't know it yet, but andy (bandmaster) gave me a leadsheet. YAY sheet music! :o) welp, that's all for now!! :o) oh, and look below for all of my addresses at every port until the end of the contract. the post also has the ship's telephone and fax numbers (as well as my cell and email, if you need them and don't already have them). i hope to borrow blake's laptop to upload pictures, if not onto here, at least to a link of an album uploaded to facebook. so check back soon!! :o)