First Impressions

Kalman from Nassau

First of all: I miss you guys! To sum up my first three days onboard the lovely Carnival Fascination – the first day was disturbing, the second was depressing and the third was… well, I’ve just finished the third one and I’m feeling happy, so it couldn’t be that bad. I shot the Halloween Deck Party tonight, maybe that’s why I still have the groove. ;)

About the first days: Folks, I was so lost... Of course not in the meaning of not finding my way through, since am on a same class boat. And this similarity just made that kinda homesick that I feel towards the Carnival Fucking Imagination even worst. I can find everything here where it should be, I know where to go when I’m hungry, but I also know that none of you will be there to pick up their heads when I enter. :( It feels like stepping into your former apartment where a new family lives now. They changed the furniture and there’re new curtains too but the colors of the walls are still the same and in fragments you still find the smell of your home.
I don’t know whether is better for those of us who got onto a ship of another class, or for those who remained on a Fantasy-class vessel. You tell me.
So, these were the first days like, I felt alone. I’m not part of our former team anymore, yet not part of my new one either. I know it’s just a matter of days but still it’s hard right now.

Today was somewhat different. We were in Nassau – huge storm hat the islands, without rain but with heavy blasts of wind – and in the afternoon I shot Empress stbd side (the place I hate the most). Prior to shooting I browsed through the archived pictures of the other photographers at that backdrop I was to shoot (and this is the point when I suddenly started to feel a lot better): maaan, I’ve never seen so many fucked up pictures in a bunch, not even in the college! :) If that’s how they’re doing here, and still Fascination is the top1 ship in the entire fleet regarding to Photo Dept. revenues, then I’ll be a star here. ;)))

So guys, relax and sit back: we were truly well trained and we’re ready to face anything.
Ask Dimitrijs! :D