Sandy's Adventures In Africa!: Dry Dock In Gran Canaria!

Well Its been a warm week that's for sure. We left Tenerife very early Monday morning, heading to Gran Canaria, for the dry dock time. IT was a very rocky, and rough sail, but we made it safe and sound! We are now out of the water completely. Which is a really odd feeling.. We are not moving at all, mind you i still feel like i am most of the time..

This past week I transferred back into hospitality, after the summer program finished with a bang! We took the kids on our final day, to the beach near our port in Tenerife. Its a very windy beach, and i think i finally got all of the sand out of my hair.

The summer program, even though it only lasted 4 short weeks, was a nice break from Monday-Friday 8-5 work. We had many fun field trips, good bibles studies, and many interesting mornings with worships songs! The Sunday of our final week we invited all the parents to come and see what we learned throughout our 4 weeks! We sang some songs, and then the kids read either a key word or phrase from our daily bible study on the psalms.

The summer program, really put a light into something for me. These kids grow up on the Africa Mercy and they are some of the coolest kids Ive ever met! They are down to earth, calm, and from all over the world!

Being in dry dock is a bit of a challenge, we currently have no air conditioning, so the ship is quite hot in most parts, but we have found so many fans, that we are gonna end up blowing away! They are repairing many different parts of our great big ship, and hope to be out of here by the 20th of July!

This past weekend was of course July 1st! Canada DAY :) The one thing I really missed about not being home was the FIREWORKS! Ive always loved seeing them every year, but to be in Spain working on the Africa Mercy is truly a blessing :)

I still have about 4 months here, and even though this past week has been a rough one, with two of my really close friends leaving, I'm doing okay. I miss them dearly, but that's Mercy Ships, people come and go, But we will see them again :)