Monday, April 1st

After a short night of sleep (stayed up until after 10 trying to finish the mandatory child/ministry safety videos and test that wouldn’t work from home) we had mandatory community meeting this morning, and each Monday morning. After some worship songs and a short devotion the room is updated about the week, events on board and around the area. The captain gives his weekly update which includes things like water usage aboard ship, how to keep the toilets in our cabins working well, when to put ‘toilet juice’ in the toilets, LOL, etc.

Then is was off to orientation: ship living, crew health, dining area, coming and going from the ship, crew bank, African money, Conakry things like beggars and safety. There was so much information to take in after flying for 21 hours and sleeping a few!! Then off to Operating Room orientation…in a small classroom right after lunch with 4 people in the dimly lit room watching slides… I dozed off at least 10 times!!! I had to apologize to the O.R. manager for that. After our tour of the operating room department we had a free hour until dinner followed by a one hour tour of the ship.

So very tired but tried to do the safety videos/test again until after 10 (new link from ship staff). Watched all the videos but they must email me the test sometime over the next week…off to bed I went!!