The last couple days have been lovely ones spent in my room :)  I spent the entire weekend with a cold in my room trying to get better.  Matt, Ben G., Jenny and all my other friends (except Kelly) went on a really awesome overnight trip to the beach.  Awesome!  Kelly and I made cookies and watched movies on the ship.  Boring.
Here are some pictures of my day in the galley today.  It was a pretty long day honestly.  We made snickerdoodles for the crew and then had extra time so we made chedder Jalapeno dinner rolls.  They were so delicious!

In preparation of Africa night tomorrow (every tuesday) Josh is peeling plantains to make fried plantains.

Little Ben making crutons.

My ol buddy Matt

Iroro(left) and Oreta also known as mama (right)

me and Iroro

rolls for 450 people. wow!

After work i rushed through a shower (imagine rushing through a two minute shower) and went to...drum roll...French class! The ship is sailing to Togo in a short while where they speak French.  So one of the galley cooks is a french teacher and is offering classes to the crew.  So i'm learning french! yay!  The other news for the day is that i'm going to be teaching swim lessons for the long term crew's kids! i'm so excited!  Hopefully the first lessons will be starting the beginning of next week.  Prayers would be much appreciated for that and also for my health.  I had a cold all weekend and the cough remains. and it's awful.  I miss you all.