The rat won the race!
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Other photos from NCL Dawn
Sorry my entries are never in order but just to catch you guys up, here are some other photos from my contract with NCL in the Caribbean...
Doing Laundry during rehearsals with Kelsey and Christian
The Orginal cast from February 2006
Kay's English Fruity Lollie challenge which Gemma and i completed and proved wrong!
Crew Pyjama Party in the Disco
Doing Laundry during rehearsals with Kelsey and Christian
The Orginal cast from February 2006
Kay's English Fruity Lollie challenge which Gemma and i completed and proved wrong!
Crew Pyjama Party in the Disco
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
KOREA:The present location
While we're on a photo of the Itaewon trip...ITAEWON: a location for the foreigners mainly American army soldiers and their wives or........ Russian models.
Jeff, Ben, Fabi, me and Linda @
the famous Polly's Kettle
$5 for a litre drink of Soju!
Fabianna and Flavio
at some Salsa club??!?!
Market shopping.....
just luv it!
Waiting in line at LOTTE WORLD
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Tortola
Don't you wish this was YOUR balcony?????
Relaxing on the Sandy beach.....
Then the most
peaceful, romantic
relaxing sailaway
I've ever had!
With a delicious
Italian Banquet to
follow @
La Trattoria :)
Goodbye Tortola!
Danze Fantasy Productions
Hey guys!
Do you remember how exicted I was when I first started this STILL very
complicated blog thing? Well, i just made my debut on a website.
Check it out ---> http://www.danzefantasy.com/subwayinterviewshelena.html
And if you wanna just check the whole website out which i helped put
up visit www.danzefantasy.com
x
St Thomas
1stly-Beaches, a K-Mart
and good calling cards!
2ndly-Water Island
Bike and Swim Tour
3rdly-Catamaran
and snorkel with
unlimited alcohol on
the sail back to the
ship!
Pics from NCL DAWN
Once again i APOLOGISE for disappearing off the planet for a while. Over the next week or so I promise to fill you in on the past few months. But for now....some pics from my last contract....Norwegian Cruise Line's beautiful ship, the DAWN
Starting with.........NEW YORK - My main port
Satue of Liberty
Central Park
Trump Tower
Radio City
42nd Street on Time Square!
Starting with.........NEW YORK - My main port
Satue of Liberty
Central Park
Trump Tower
Radio City
42nd Street on Time Square!
Friday, March 24, 2006
i lurve the Caribbean!
Ladies and gentlemen,
I’ve just discovered the best mall EVER in the world. Well, actually I can’t really claim that because I haven’t been everywhere in the world. Maybe it’s coz I’ve been away from city life and is lacking normality that makes this mall seems so wonderful but if you don't want to be spending money, stay away from San Juan, Plaza Las America.
I’ve been on the ship for almost 2 cruises and since then have had a birthday, opened a show, moved rooms, swam with dolphins, visited a nudist beach, had a hair cut and dyed it while rehearsing every day since I boarded in New York. One thing that hasn’t happened yet, is get paid!
B4 I go on, thanks to every one who remembered my birthday. I’ve tried to reply to most of you who kindly emailed. Sorry it took so long, Internet access is sparse, I was still reading them 4 days after which in a way was nice coz it dragged the event out a bit. It was nice to have cake with my name on it (which suggests it was organised rather than bought at the last minute) and because it fell on the closing night of the old cast’s last show, we got free champagne! The drinking obviously continued in the crew bar.
And to those who msged, that was really nice too. Because of the time difference I was getting them all night and all day, so thankyou for making my day special.
Yesterday we were in St Maarten, which is made up of 2 sides, French and Dutch. As soon as we got off the ship that, docked in the Dutch side, we took a shuttle to the French and parked our butts on the nudist beach with hopes of getting rid of our tan lines, sipping on our Magharitas and enjoying the beautiful blue water. Cute little shops were nearby and French bakeries but rather expensive for this struggling dancer as the currency used was the Euro.
The day b4 that, we were in Tortola where my friend from Shore Ex kindly got my room mate and me free tickets to swim with dolphins. It’s been my dream for a while now, last ship was spent whale watching, I guess this time it’s dolphins. They were adorable and unbelievably well trained. Bought an underwater camera so hopefully will be able to put pics up soon. If anyone ever gets a chance to do it, I highly recommend it. Be prepared to spend money buying pics and the DVD. It’s worth it!
The day b4 that, we were in St Thomas where again, we caught a cab and spent all day laying on the white sand. This time, we weren’t so classy with our special cocktails. Instead, we’d gone to the grocery store and bought a bottle of vodka and mixes ourselves. Another thing I suggest to do as it worked out to cost only $4pp and we didn’t even finish the vodka! The only problem with Caribbean beaches, sand flies! Argh they are so annoying, I have at least 10 bites. Why didn’t any1 warn me?
Our main port is New York, which I visited for the first time a week ago. It’s so weird watching Sex and the city on the TV then visiting the actual place. Luckily the ship docks quite close to ‘down town’ so all the shops are walking distance. With only a few hours, I tried to walk as fast as possible going to as many places as possible, trying not to get distracted by all the wonderful signs and posters, especially on Broadway!!! Even though I only walked through, it was amazing. One thing I’ll give American credit for is the naming of the streets. Numbers make so much more sense, no excuses for getting lost unless you don’t know how to count!
Our cabins were a bit of a surprise to me, we have bunk beds and the room is teeny weeny. Guess I was spoilt on Celebrity with those passenger cabins. I’m on the top bunk and instead of spacing the beds evenly, they’ve given the bottom bunk enough room to sit up and shortened the space above the top bunk so when you lie there and close the curtain, you have as much space as you do in a coffin. I’ve bashed my head on the roof so many times! Other than that everything else is all right. From next cruise on wards, we’ll only be rehearsing on show days, which is 2 out of 10. However, for all of you who think it means I work 2 out of 10 days, not true, cruise staff duties will begin. Luckily on this ship we have a really nice ACD (assistant cruise director for you non-ship people) who is fair and only gives us about 4hours a week of duties. So yeah, I’m really lucky, this contract will be really easy.
So that’s this cruise, last cruise I only managed to get off once, in Cozumel, which I can’t remember AT ALL. Am I getting amnesia??? Anyway I’ll be doing that itinerary again so I’ll tell you about it all next time.
Until then, laugh hard + take care!
x
I’ve just discovered the best mall EVER in the world. Well, actually I can’t really claim that because I haven’t been everywhere in the world. Maybe it’s coz I’ve been away from city life and is lacking normality that makes this mall seems so wonderful but if you don't want to be spending money, stay away from San Juan, Plaza Las America.
I’ve been on the ship for almost 2 cruises and since then have had a birthday, opened a show, moved rooms, swam with dolphins, visited a nudist beach, had a hair cut and dyed it while rehearsing every day since I boarded in New York. One thing that hasn’t happened yet, is get paid!
B4 I go on, thanks to every one who remembered my birthday. I’ve tried to reply to most of you who kindly emailed. Sorry it took so long, Internet access is sparse, I was still reading them 4 days after which in a way was nice coz it dragged the event out a bit. It was nice to have cake with my name on it (which suggests it was organised rather than bought at the last minute) and because it fell on the closing night of the old cast’s last show, we got free champagne! The drinking obviously continued in the crew bar.
And to those who msged, that was really nice too. Because of the time difference I was getting them all night and all day, so thankyou for making my day special.
Yesterday we were in St Maarten, which is made up of 2 sides, French and Dutch. As soon as we got off the ship that, docked in the Dutch side, we took a shuttle to the French and parked our butts on the nudist beach with hopes of getting rid of our tan lines, sipping on our Magharitas and enjoying the beautiful blue water. Cute little shops were nearby and French bakeries but rather expensive for this struggling dancer as the currency used was the Euro.
The day b4 that, we were in Tortola where my friend from Shore Ex kindly got my room mate and me free tickets to swim with dolphins. It’s been my dream for a while now, last ship was spent whale watching, I guess this time it’s dolphins. They were adorable and unbelievably well trained. Bought an underwater camera so hopefully will be able to put pics up soon. If anyone ever gets a chance to do it, I highly recommend it. Be prepared to spend money buying pics and the DVD. It’s worth it!
The day b4 that, we were in St Thomas where again, we caught a cab and spent all day laying on the white sand. This time, we weren’t so classy with our special cocktails. Instead, we’d gone to the grocery store and bought a bottle of vodka and mixes ourselves. Another thing I suggest to do as it worked out to cost only $4pp and we didn’t even finish the vodka! The only problem with Caribbean beaches, sand flies! Argh they are so annoying, I have at least 10 bites. Why didn’t any1 warn me?
Our main port is New York, which I visited for the first time a week ago. It’s so weird watching Sex and the city on the TV then visiting the actual place. Luckily the ship docks quite close to ‘down town’ so all the shops are walking distance. With only a few hours, I tried to walk as fast as possible going to as many places as possible, trying not to get distracted by all the wonderful signs and posters, especially on Broadway!!! Even though I only walked through, it was amazing. One thing I’ll give American credit for is the naming of the streets. Numbers make so much more sense, no excuses for getting lost unless you don’t know how to count!
Our cabins were a bit of a surprise to me, we have bunk beds and the room is teeny weeny. Guess I was spoilt on Celebrity with those passenger cabins. I’m on the top bunk and instead of spacing the beds evenly, they’ve given the bottom bunk enough room to sit up and shortened the space above the top bunk so when you lie there and close the curtain, you have as much space as you do in a coffin. I’ve bashed my head on the roof so many times! Other than that everything else is all right. From next cruise on wards, we’ll only be rehearsing on show days, which is 2 out of 10. However, for all of you who think it means I work 2 out of 10 days, not true, cruise staff duties will begin. Luckily on this ship we have a really nice ACD (assistant cruise director for you non-ship people) who is fair and only gives us about 4hours a week of duties. So yeah, I’m really lucky, this contract will be really easy.
So that’s this cruise, last cruise I only managed to get off once, in Cozumel, which I can’t remember AT ALL. Am I getting amnesia??? Anyway I’ll be doing that itinerary again so I’ll tell you about it all next time.
Until then, laugh hard + take care!
x
Monday, February 27, 2006
welcome to miami
hi guys,
well i'm here in miami FINALLY.....rehearsals are going well. We're down a few people but am getting some today. It's sunday today and it's our day off. wohoo......you'd think i'd be at the beach but NOPE....it just happens to be cloudy and miserable today. It was sunny and gorgeous all week but today it's decided to be miserable.
Not to worry, plan B...shopping!
Our choreographer is aussie & worked at the moulin so knows a lot of other aussies i know. She's really fun and makes rehearsals a lot less stressful than normal.
We finished learning the first show in 3days and is half way through our next/last show so we might get another day off b4 we board the ship in new york.
My room-mate is English and heaps of fun too. We lost a dnacer after the first day coz her grandmother suddenly got ill. Bless her. We're still missing 3 singers and a gymnast but like i said b4 hopefully we'll get them today
Aren't we the mos organised cast!
Besides english and aussie, we also have people from Canada, Belise, poland, Ukrain, Russian and america. They all seem realy sweet and most have been on the ship b4.
That's all for now folks, will try to write one more time b4 i leave.
well i'm here in miami FINALLY.....rehearsals are going well. We're down a few people but am getting some today. It's sunday today and it's our day off. wohoo......you'd think i'd be at the beach but NOPE....it just happens to be cloudy and miserable today. It was sunny and gorgeous all week but today it's decided to be miserable.
Not to worry, plan B...shopping!
Our choreographer is aussie & worked at the moulin so knows a lot of other aussies i know. She's really fun and makes rehearsals a lot less stressful than normal.
We finished learning the first show in 3days and is half way through our next/last show so we might get another day off b4 we board the ship in new york.
My room-mate is English and heaps of fun too. We lost a dnacer after the first day coz her grandmother suddenly got ill. Bless her. We're still missing 3 singers and a gymnast but like i said b4 hopefully we'll get them today
Aren't we the mos organised cast!
Besides english and aussie, we also have people from Canada, Belise, poland, Ukrain, Russian and america. They all seem realy sweet and most have been on the ship b4.
That's all for now folks, will try to write one more time b4 i leave.
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Apologies
Hi,
Well i never thought any1 actually read my blog but apparently people do and i've recently been getting a few complaints about the lack of update acttivity so i hope you accept my apologies and continue to visit.
Let's see, last time i wrote was b4 the FAME audition......hm.......let's just say i need singing lessons b4 i try to audition for another musical.
And the Madame butterfly audition....they needed one girl and one boy. Seeing i was as tall, if not taller than the boys already at the audition, I knew that job was lost b4 we even started dancing.
Since then, holding my head high and determined not to give up, I continued trekking to London at wee hours of the morning in hopes to find employment. Went to a Son Amar (located in Spain) audition and went rather well however due to Visa complications am again left at sqaure one desperately trying to get rid of the title 'UNemployed'
The most interesting of all, was the audition for 'Wicked', 600+ girls turned up (goodness knows how many in total as boys were the day after, then private auditions later on) and we were made to wait OUTSIDE at FREEZING temperatures. Not kidding.....it started to snow! I waited outside, in line on the pathway for 4 HOURS. The things dancers do to get work. Luckily I met a few people on the way, starting with a friend of a friend then their friends and their friends, so 6 strangers laughing and chatting away trying to make time go quicker, that in the end, the experience from waiting in line turned out much better than the audition itself.
In the meantime, have been juggling whether to go back on a ship or not. The money is good, no responsibilities, experiencing new countries and cultures while doing the thing you love best. Why not? Turned down a few offerrs but in the end, gave up trying the 'square mile' and have decided to go back. Will leave England on 19th Feb and fly to Ft Lauderdale where i rehearse for 2 weeks then board the Norwegian DAWN in New York on the 5th.
There you go, so all you yankies, i'll keep you posted so we can meet up and if any1 else is in the Caribbean, be sure to let me know.
Hope you're all well....and i'll try to be better with my blogging.
Well i never thought any1 actually read my blog but apparently people do and i've recently been getting a few complaints about the lack of update acttivity so i hope you accept my apologies and continue to visit.
Let's see, last time i wrote was b4 the FAME audition......hm.......let's just say i need singing lessons b4 i try to audition for another musical.
And the Madame butterfly audition....they needed one girl and one boy. Seeing i was as tall, if not taller than the boys already at the audition, I knew that job was lost b4 we even started dancing.
Since then, holding my head high and determined not to give up, I continued trekking to London at wee hours of the morning in hopes to find employment. Went to a Son Amar (located in Spain) audition and went rather well however due to Visa complications am again left at sqaure one desperately trying to get rid of the title 'UNemployed'
The most interesting of all, was the audition for 'Wicked', 600+ girls turned up (goodness knows how many in total as boys were the day after, then private auditions later on) and we were made to wait OUTSIDE at FREEZING temperatures. Not kidding.....it started to snow! I waited outside, in line on the pathway for 4 HOURS. The things dancers do to get work. Luckily I met a few people on the way, starting with a friend of a friend then their friends and their friends, so 6 strangers laughing and chatting away trying to make time go quicker, that in the end, the experience from waiting in line turned out much better than the audition itself.
In the meantime, have been juggling whether to go back on a ship or not. The money is good, no responsibilities, experiencing new countries and cultures while doing the thing you love best. Why not? Turned down a few offerrs but in the end, gave up trying the 'square mile' and have decided to go back. Will leave England on 19th Feb and fly to Ft Lauderdale where i rehearse for 2 weeks then board the Norwegian DAWN in New York on the 5th.
There you go, so all you yankies, i'll keep you posted so we can meet up and if any1 else is in the Caribbean, be sure to let me know.
Hope you're all well....and i'll try to be better with my blogging.
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Auditions.....ahhhhhh!
So, things has happened since my last blog which i will fill you in later but for now......ahhhhhh!
well, good and bad news, actually just good news.
I sent my resume into two places earlier this week and i've been called by both and asked to audition for them. (BTW I'm now in England....and I hope everyone got my email wishing you all a Happy Christmas and New Year)
One is for Madam Butterfly which i'm stoked about coz there's no singing involved and it won't be very physically demanding, and i feel i have a good chance coz i look Japanese......however, i think they're only looking for one female and one male....so fingers crossed.
The other....is for Fame-European Tour (ie UK Tour) I'm stoked to get this too BUT i have to sing!!!!! AND I CAN'T SING!!!!!
I got the phone call today and I know i should be jumping up and down like Ben is and my mum is, but I'm too scared to be happy. The audition is on Tuesday so i have the weekend to prepare. AHHHHHH......shopping tomorrow for music and backing tracks. I haven't had a singing lessong in almost 4 years! (actually not entirely true as Deborah kindly assisted once while I was on the ship)
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
well, good and bad news, actually just good news.
I sent my resume into two places earlier this week and i've been called by both and asked to audition for them. (BTW I'm now in England....and I hope everyone got my email wishing you all a Happy Christmas and New Year)
One is for Madam Butterfly which i'm stoked about coz there's no singing involved and it won't be very physically demanding, and i feel i have a good chance coz i look Japanese......however, i think they're only looking for one female and one male....so fingers crossed.
The other....is for Fame-European Tour (ie UK Tour) I'm stoked to get this too BUT i have to sing!!!!! AND I CAN'T SING!!!!!
I got the phone call today and I know i should be jumping up and down like Ben is and my mum is, but I'm too scared to be happy. The audition is on Tuesday so i have the weekend to prepare. AHHHHHH......shopping tomorrow for music and backing tracks. I haven't had a singing lessong in almost 4 years! (actually not entirely true as Deborah kindly assisted once while I was on the ship)
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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