📝 The "REBEL" animator 📖

Back in 2016 I decided to shake up my life and shuffle the cards on the table, and that's how my adventure as an animator in a tourist village in Sardinia begins, especially in Tortolì.

During this experience I had the opportunity to have several good and bad experiences and to debunk or confirm some of the myths about tourist animators.

In detail I worked as a Sport and Contact animator in the period of July and August, there would be a lot to say about it but I will limit myself to telling only a few passages.

Upon my arrival I was welcomed by a staff of only four people and I immediately had a good impression, later (as expected) I had some "incompatibility" problems with the head animator and the owner of the village.

Our head animator was quite good as he had been doing this job for several years but it was the first time he was the boss and this in my opinion created a bit of "performance anxiety" linked above all to the fact that the owner of the village was very demanding and honestly with such a small staff (therefore a low budget) it is not possible to demand high-level services or in any case five people cannot do the work of ten or fifteen people.

Work in general is quite tiring and you don't have much free time available but it's just as satisfying and it's an experience to try at least once in your life.

I know you've come this far for your "curiosity" and so I'll answer the question you're asking yourself: Do animators approach girls well? Well, in part yes because the animator is a reference figure within the village and is constantly talking to everyone as well as being a very "free" figure for the nature.

If the answer is not clear to you then you should try to be an animator, my daily routine involved waking up at about 10 in the morning, having breakfast and walking on the beach to talk to people and inviting them to play (classic beach games such as Beach volleyball etc. were organized), at the end of the morning shift there was lunch and then we rehearsed for the evening show, then again among the people for other afternoon games.

At 6 pm break and then dinner, after dinner obviously we did shows of various kinds from representations to musical shows to cabaret; in reference to the question from before about the girls... well the only free time is the night after the show (assuming that you are not too tired or that you do not have to rehearse for the shows of the following weeks).

The "RULES" are very strict for tourist entertainers (in fact I can boast of having broken them all at least once), here are some: Do not drink alcohol, do not have "contact" with guests, do not talk about politics and similar topics etc.

In general it is an experience that I would repeat today and I am sure that with the way of seeing the things I have acquired over the years I could have much more fun, even if the beautiful thing is really not having any experience and getting out of your comfort area.

In my book "The Diary of unspoken Things" I have dedicated an entire chapter to this topic, namely "The Handbook of the Rebel Animator", a useful guide for anyone who wants to try this experience and wants to live it in an "anarchist" way.

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