Day 371 or Work

Somedays I love to work.

I'm not going to lie, somedays the last thing I want to do is work. Sometimes it's seven in the morning, I'm leaning against the counter watching bleary-eyed as people shuffle in like zombies from a bad b movie, complete with moans as they scoop up their breakfast. I think longingly of the bed down stairs and how I'd much rather be sleeping then watching people stare blankely at the food, their brains to tired to figure out what they want or even why they're there.

Other days, like today, I'm working hard to clean the glass doors, spraying and wiping, the paper towels turning as black as the road outside and yet the streaks still remain. Chuck walks by and comments that I should use newspaper. I decide to take him up on his offer and spend the next little while on a search for papers, which I was successful in.

Spraying down the door and wiping, the difference is clear, quite literally actually.
I've got my iPod, my musics playing, the doors are getting clean. I'm on such a roll, I nearly forget about break. When I'm done, I do the other doors on the other side. I'm so overcome by this breakthrough in cleanleness that I trek upstairs, attacking the glass upstairs.

I quite happy wiped away till I realized I had run out of paper and was forced to stop. A short break, then begin work in the dining room.

I don't always like to work, but sometimes there is nothing quite as satisfying.

Day 366 or One Year Ago Today

Can you believe it? It was a year ago today that I set foot on the ship I would soon learn to call home.For my anniversary, I decided to do a year in pictures, with each picture representing a month on board! Let's begin, shall we?


November '09 - Benin, Field Service



December '09 - Tenerife, Yearly Maintenance - The lovely girls of cabin 4418



January '10 - Tenerife, Yearly Maintenance - The fountain when you first get off the
dock



February '10 - Togo,Field Service - Marianna and Dag, part of the dental team



March '10 - Togo, Field Service - Outreach Program



April '10 - Togo, Field Service - Young girl we met at the hospitality center where patients go to finish their recovery



May '10 - Togo, Field Service - Girls dancing at the Fishing Village Church



June '10 - Togo, Field Service - Me, all prepared to go and watch eye surgery



July '10 - Togo, Field Service - FanIce man sleeping



August '10 - The sail from Togo to South Africa - Deck Seven



September '10 - South Africa, Maintence - The luggage of all those leaving for Appelsbosh



October '10 - South Africa, Maintence - Birds at the Umgeni River Bird Park



November '10 - South Africa, Maintence - Leaving the dry dock