World of the Written Word

First, we had to endure that American invention, Halloween (which, thankfully, has never really taken off in New Zealand), and then we got the meaningless and annoying "Black Friday" -- which is apparently an American ritual for the day following Thanksgiving...

Well, we worked as enrichment and destination lecturers for four exciting years, but can't say we came across much of this ... though the discovery of dead passengers does ring a bell ...
Working on a cruise ship
IT TURNS out what happens at sea doesn’t always stay at sea, as cruise ship workers have been spilling the beans on what it’s really like to work on the floating hotels....

According to Wellington's Dominion Post it might not be the life you expect
It sounds really great, and with the boom in luxury yacht-building, there are more opportunities than you might imagine.   But, if you are female, you should be size 10, 12, 14 or whatever is svelte in your country.  And there are other hitches, too...

Now billed as the second-most famous (or notorious) ship in the world (after the Titanic), Equanimity is finally to be sold.
Or so they say.
According to Miranda Blazeby, writing in Boat International, the Malaysian court is ready to get quit of the ship by the end of the year....