Me! The first(!) time I emigrated to the States from England.
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Hello! I’m Beth, the owner of PRESETT - online courses on educational technical theatre operations.
As well as cruising around high school theatres, I also love traveling the world on cruise ships. I have been cruising on cruise ships since I was 18 months old, and after becoming a parent I loved taking my kids on cruises! I'm an Ex-Pat Brit living in - land locked! - Colorado. Whenever I cruise, I invariably pop my head into the theatre’s booth to chat with the techs. And I got to thinking, there are a lot of vocational tech theatre students (and professional techs!) who might not have thought of cruises as a viable career path. And that’s how CruiseTechies was launched! |
FUN FACTS
The Mardi Gras was Carnival Cruise Line’s first ship, bought in 1972 (replaced in 2003). The original Mardi Gras used to be the Empress of Canada, owned by Canadian Pacific Steamships, which… is the ship on which I immigrated to the US (from the UK) in 1970!
I learned to swim in the pool on that ship. My dad bought be a koala from the gift shop for learning to swim. I still have that koala! Also, my mum bought me Laura Ingalls Wilder’s first book, Little House in the Big Woods, to read. She thought I should learn a bit about the country I was immigrating to.
I learned to swim in the pool on that ship. My dad bought be a koala from the gift shop for learning to swim. I still have that koala! Also, my mum bought me Laura Ingalls Wilder’s first book, Little House in the Big Woods, to read. She thought I should learn a bit about the country I was immigrating to.
But... that wasn’t the first time I immigrated to the States. When I was 18 months old, we first emigrated from England. That’s me on the deck chair on board, in the photo at the top of this page. That time we sailed on the SS United States, owned by the United States Lines. After a history of narrowly avoiding the scrap yard, and being bought several times, Norwegian Cruise Lines purchased her in 2003. After being deemed too expensive to keep running, the SS United States Conservancy took over in 2010. As of 2023 she was slated to be docked in New York with plans to covert her to a hotel and event venue.
(3 years later we moved back to England, which is why I ended up emigrating from England twice.)
(3 years later we moved back to England, which is why I ended up emigrating from England twice.)
And then… I immigrated a third time, to Perth, Australia. That time we sailed on the SS Oronsay, owned by P&O. (Not to be confused with the SS Oronsay troop ship sunk in WWII.) Sadly that was one of her last trips before being sent to the scrap yard. I was 12 years old at the time, and it’s on that trip – 3 weeks! – that I developed my love of cruising.
(3 ½ years later we moved back to the States.)
(3 ½ years later we moved back to the States.)