My new job ... one week on ...

So as of last Monday (22nd June) i started kinda a new job, and kinda not a new job!

So basically i have been asked to try and sort out the cold side of the galley, which means all the salads, cheese and meat stuff. So before i was on one of the cooking teams and basically did this for my team but now i have to do it for both teams!

So my hours have changed from shift work to a normal mon-fri 8-5 day, which i have found out even after a week has some very nice advantages, but some draw backs as well!

Its been really nice to get to know some of the people from the other team and being in charge has let me have a bit more freedom with what we do, so ive been experimenting with the salads and trying to create some new salads which the crew might enjoy ... so far so good i think from the comments ive had back :)

So its also given me the chance to play more sport that ive been able to before, which is really nice (but very tiring) ... so this is my past week in sports

Monday ... football training
Tuesday ... volleyball
Wednesday ... football training
Thursday ... rest (whew!)
Friday ... Frisbee
Saturday ... Playing for the Africa Mercy Football team in a real match!!! (more details to follow)
Sunday ... water fight!

So yeah, the draw back is that im very use to having days off and nice long lie-in's and my life doesn't seem to have slowed down outside work so am for sure a little tired, but happy that ive had a good week :)

Things i need to blog about ..

So i know im behind again ...

lets see ... if i wasnt so tired i would blog about ...

my birthday
sock golf
my mum being on the ship
my new job role
football in benin

lets hope im not so tired 2morrow and get a chance to blog!

sorry again for being behind!

Safe and Sound

So im happy to report ( and sorry i havent earlier) that my mum arrived safe and sound, a little tired and hungry but arrived all the same tue afternoon :)

Its been great to have her here with me and i look forward to the next month very much!

Thanks all :)

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST

so my mum is stuck in togo airport ...

her flight got grounded there cause of bad weather and hasnt been able to take off ... it is now due in at 2:15pm local time (same time as English time) tomorrow afternoon.

It was due in at about 7:00pm tonight, so i have no idea how she will be, if she would have been able to get any sleep or anything.

So i would love it if you are reading this before or after that time even that you pray for her, her health, energy etc that would be wonderful and that she can recover from her horror journey quickly

thank you all

Mother is coming!!!

So its funny how things just sneak up on you ... ive known for a while that my mum was thinking about coming out to Benin, and ive known for (a shorter time) but still a while that she actually is coming ...

well today is the day!!! she lands about 7:30 this evening so the Farrell family (http://www.thefarrells.org.uk/) and myself will be taking a land drover, taking a short journey to the airport ... and picking up NANNY!!! ... ok well she is my mum, but around here with Tom and Joshua she will for sure be nanny!

So this is the start of a busy week for me ... Tuesday sees Natalie's birthday (http://natalie7591.blogspot.com/)

Wednesday sees the farewell meal of a good friend of mine Lauren :(

Friday sees my nephews birthday party and the Rolland's (http://5rollands.blogspot.com/) and amy (my lovely girlfriend) leave for the summer for a total of 5 weeks

And just to finish off the week Saturday is my 25th birthday! and im trying to organize a group trip out to celebrate!

So a busy week ... but bring it on!!!

Bowls ... with a twist ...

So living on a ship in Africa ...

there is no Tesco at the bottom of my road

i don't own a BMW old school car any more that i can just jump in and travel to where ever i wish

i cant go to Belfairs for a round of golf (however i can still remember the course set up :) )

so its all about making your own fun, its amazing how funny moving peoples name tags on their cabin doors can be at midnight ...

However last night that was beaten and beaten by a distance ...

So we have created late night bowls, however we dont have any bowls, nor a jack, nor a mat to stand on, nor a level well cut playing surface ... but we make do with what we have :)

So last night was just a practice to see if it will work... oh and it will work alright!!! But i cant give any more details because its a secret underground, and well we want it to be a cool surprise to the people that get to play :)

So if anyone has any other ideas of how we can amuse ourselves on a ship then please do let me know :)

Close but no cigar ...

So the film festival has been and gone ... and to be honest it pretty much went just how i expected!

My film was ... well ... well it was something that i of course would make! I think it was lost on a good % of the people that saw it, but the people that got it really enjoyed it, i had some very good feedback from a good amount of people which was nice, some expected and some unexpected people took the time to say how much they enjoyed it which was nice. It was nice that they gave details about it ... they could have easily said something like "your film was good" and leave it at that, but everyone seemed to like certain bits and it reminded them of stuff so that was good :)

So there were some awards at the end ... and thankfully the best film won the best film award which was nice, the other awards went to completely the wrong people, but oh well that's life on a ship i guess!!! (i don't mean i should have won them, I'm not that big headed!!!)

Creature of Habit

I find this in pretty much all parts of my life ... im a creature of habit and phases, i go through spells of doing things, and then for no reason leave them totally for a while, this seems to have been the case with blogging, i think i just lost the habit for a while there! Got caught up in other things and didn't mean to stop blogging just didn't think about it!

So am trying to think back for things that have happened in the past few weeks and am posting about them as i think about them! So keep checking back for things that might appear!

Will try and post more regularly again now :)