Welcome!

Hi! Welcome to  "It's A Cruisy Life!"

This blog is basically a way for me to keep in touch with my family and friends while I'm out of the country (for the first time ever, aah!) sailing the seven seas on board the Pacific Princess. I guess it's also to keep me sane, as I've heard there will be occasions on board when I have a LOT of time on my hands.

So the story began when I was offered a contract to perform as a Singer/Dancer on board the Pacific Princess for 8 months. After graduating from drama school, performing on a cruise was not really at the top of my priority list, but after spending 8 months in Melbourne teaching and working 3 other random jobs, the prospect of actually getting to perform at all was incredibly welcome and exciting!

Without any doubts, I took the job and didn't look back. After some investigating on the internet I discovered the places I would get to visit and almost passed out... Egypt. Easter Island. Santorini. These were places I had been dreaming to go since I was like 5 years old. I actually still can't believe it. And the list goes on and on and on... Basically I get to visit every continent (except Antarctica brrrr) and pretty much every country worth seeing in the whole world!

Plus I get to sing and dance... Dream job? Yep, pretty much.

Then came the paperwork.......

If there is one thing I hate doing, it's filling out forms. Vomit. I just can't stand it. And for a pretty intelligent guy I will, without fail, get confused at one of the questions. It's like on the tax file number declaration form, where it says "Are you an Australian resident for tax purposes?", I always think it means, "Are you just saying you're an Australian resident so you can scam the system?" Totally not what it means. So with the amount of forms I had to fill out for the cruise I was pretty much a nervous wreck. Plus I didn't even have a passport... whoops!

But it all eventually came together (no thanks to the millions of lists I wrote, which just seemed to make me more confused) and I was all set to go. But none of it seemed even remotely real until I started saying goodbye to my friends. Not until then did it actually hit me: I'm leaving for 10 months. Wow. That's nearly a year! 2 months rehearsing and then 8 months at sea. I immediately downloaded skype.

Then a quick flight to Sydney and a hideously long train ride to Newcastle and I was ready to start rehearsals! Why Newcastle you ask? Who knows! We still can't really work it out...

And so that pretty much brings you up to speed. I don't know how much I'm going to have to say in this blog, or if any of it will be at all interesting to anyone... But I have a nice, fancy new laptop and I feel extra fancy writing a blog on its fresh little keys. And you know me, I definitely like to feel fancy hahaha...