Here are some promised pictures....hope you enjoy!!!
Those are ship related pictures, now I'll share some from my adventure today. Other than screening day I've had orientation which is fine, but I'm free this weekend and so I went out hiking with some friends today.
This morning I got up at 7:15 and we left the ship around 8 am and walked to the port gate with the other 9 people that wanted to come. At the port gate we met up with a day crew worker and she was extremely helpful.
The day crew are local Congolese people that know French, English, and the local African language that have been hired by Mercy Ships to work as translators and other various jobs. I wouldn't be able to do my job without having them here!!!
Anyway, she went and negotiated a price for a taxi and we all piled in for the 45 minute drive out the the gorge (where we hiked). It was an interesting group that went, there were 2 Germans, 1 from Switzerland, I think 3 from England, and 4 from the US, plus our local day crew worker.
Needless to say we had a lot of fun and I really enjoyed the day. I even remembered to put on my sunscreen and bug spray!!!
I'll have to share more about screening day another time.
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| I made it!!! |
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| Looking off the top deck |
This morning I got up at 7:15 and we left the ship around 8 am and walked to the port gate with the other 9 people that wanted to come. At the port gate we met up with a day crew worker and she was extremely helpful.
The day crew are local Congolese people that know French, English, and the local African language that have been hired by Mercy Ships to work as translators and other various jobs. I wouldn't be able to do my job without having them here!!!
Anyway, she went and negotiated a price for a taxi and we all piled in for the 45 minute drive out the the gorge (where we hiked). It was an interesting group that went, there were 2 Germans, 1 from Switzerland, I think 3 from England, and 4 from the US, plus our local day crew worker.
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| Looking down into the gorge |
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| There were some steep steps at the top going down... |
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| At one point we passed an ant train...it just keep on going |
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| looking towards the top after hiking down |
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| during part of the hike the vegetation look like we were walking through a jungle |
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| and then it would look like this |
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| We ended at the beach, this is 3 crew members, our day crew member, and then the taxi drivers assistant |
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| the back seat had the 3 coolest people! :) |
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| driving down the road |
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Needless to say we had a lot of fun and I really enjoyed the day. I even remembered to put on my sunscreen and bug spray!!!
I'll have to share more about screening day another time.
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