Thanksgiving

Yesterday was thanksgiving!

My thanksgiving was pretty good, my day started out with me working at 6:00 in the morning in the dining room setting up breakfast( cereal and other such goodness) and then I had a little break till I went back to work for lunch which was left overs and then randomly the galley brought out scallops. I'm not much of a fish person but everybody else was very excited about it. When i got of work at 2:00 I went to the beach with a couple of girls from the ship. It was incredible to think about, I was going to the beach in November when at home I would be bundled up in lots of layers. the beach was called El Dorado beach and it was simply beautiful. There are a lot of rip tides here in west Africa so you have to be careful that you don't go to an unsafe beach but here we could get into the water and it was the perfect temperature! When we got back to the ship we all dressed up for thanksgiving dinner which was so good ( not as good as home of course but I'm just glad we actually celebrate it seeing as how its an american holiday). One of my roommates was so excited about it because she is from New Zealand, she thought it was just like a movie haha. After we were all stuffed with food we went to the community meeting which turned out to be a worship service with english music! The only worship i had been to on the ship so far was African which is awesome because they LOVE to dance. African dance is very, very different than what i have ever seen. Anyway so after the worship service we ended the night with a movie and of course it had to be Christmas and I happened to be the only one with Christmas movies so we watched White Christmas. it was beautiful! So that was my thanksgiving! I hope yours was pleasant and I hope you ate lost of food!

i cant believe after all this time that im actually here but guess what...im here!! God has been so good, i started working the first day i got here which was pretty good because it helped me get off of american time and get used to african time. everyone is pretty nice and i am in a ten berth cabin so i am always surrounded by people. i took a walk and it was sooo hot and humid! i hope i get used to it! anyway i just thought i should let you know that im here! its so incredible that i get to have the pleasure of obeying God!