Chinese Choir

 In the past week, I've been practicing some singing in Mandarin. It's actually a lot of fun, and the songs that I've been learning are actually really beautiful and meaningful.

So on Saturday, we as a group went down to the Bookfair and we performed before some people.

It was such a joy to sing together, and the people even joined in at the easy parts. There was one moment that a little girl dressed in a tiger onsie started to dance along to the song, super touching! (No photo of this for obvious reasons).

But also the highlight was afterwards I connected briefly with a couple who were visiting. They said that they felt such a presence of peace onboard, and that they were believers and were so encouraged when they came on board. They promised to keep us in their prayers.

But most of my week was taken up with more engine training. Next week will be my last before I start work, but even still, I got the chance to do some practical work. 

We went inside a tank at the very front of the ship called the bulbous bow. This tank wasn't small, but most of them will be really tight, so that will be quite an adventure when I have to clean them!

In any case, tomorrow we're sailing to the next port, Porto Novi, so look forwards to a blog post about that! In the meantime, here is a cat!