Tours

In order to prepare to give tours we have been shadowing tours that more experienced employees are giving. In some cases, I have learned a lot. In other cases, these opportunities were just confidence builders; yea maybe they are a little rusty.

So far, I have been doing a lot of city shuttle runs, airport duty, and museum shuttles. However, yesterday I did do an official tour and my preparation paid off. On all my other duties, I would always give quickie tours so I could practice talking to people and practice my presentations even though it was not required. Yesterday I gave a tour and it all worked out great, I had a lot of fun and it was exciting to find that I’m not too bad at it. Some people asked me how I knew so much of if I was reading from something. Maybe they thought my driving was so bad because I must have been trying to read, or something. Any way I got many tips and it was fun to interact so much with the guests.

On June 1, I will be starting my first highway tour, it is really exciting but I still have plenty of preparing to do. I need to practice handling so many things at a time and remembering all the aspects of logistics.

Alaska has been very warm lately. It seamed like the winter cold lingered and one day I woke up and it was 80-degree summer weather. I thought I would never get to wear my shorts and sandals but at last, summer is here. Weather has forecasted worm temperatures with rain for the next week or so.