Zim’s international cruise line girls

Patience Gombe’s story reads like a fairytale, having grown up in Mufakose, and ended up travelling the world mainly by sea, courtesy of her job with the shipping company, Carnival Cruise Lines.

What started off as an attempt to try her luck, when she applied for the job via the Internet, paid off on July 13, 2008, when she was offered the job after a telephone interview conducted on March 10, 2008.

Adjusting to the new kind of life her job ushered did not give her too much headaches as, she says, “it was a lot like living in res at university only a little more intense”.

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