Deanna Moffitt

"Smart, Funny & Insightful"

Archive for January, 2009

Call of the Wild

Thursday, January 22, 2009 Teenagers on a ship often times become a marauding band of pack animals. While they may make initial contact through the teen club, there is some innate teen call that my over 30 ears cannot hear, that soon has everyone between the ages of 13 and 18 meeting on a passenger [...]

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Eavesdropping On Life

January 19th 2009 For some vacation brings out their worst personality traits. There’s a heightened sense of only having 7 to 10 days to pack in all the “fun” they think they deserve because they paid for their cruise. And that condenses everything, including their tolerance and humanity into a very small carry on. I [...]

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Be Our Guest

January 15, 2009 Living on a ship as a guest entertainer allows me the opportunity to meet and become friends with people I would never have the chance to otherwise: World champion ballroom dancers, Olympic gymnasts, legendary singers, award winning magicians, and Broadway caliber dancers. And then there’s the one-off guest entertainers that come on [...]

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Rate This

Monday, January 12, 09 Each week the ship is graded based off comment cards and survey results from passengers a couple of weeks after they return home. The ship is graded on such things as cleanliness, food, accommodations, itineraries and entertainment, etc. The ship we’re on right now has been rated number one in the [...]

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Sweating It Out With The Oldies

Thursday, January 8, 2009 For me the ship is a hot bed of people watching opportunities. On a daily basis my mouth drops, I belly laugh, or I experience a full body cringe over what I see, hear and sometimes smell coming from passengers. One of my favorite places to people watch is the ship’s [...]

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