We will soon have our last voyage, our last ship family outing, our last day out with good friends. The date of our farewell speach is set for 8 days time and we are busy chosing which pictures to show in our farewell presentation.
Tonight Heather and the kids are dancing the Scottish dance in a Cultural hour programme which may be the last time.
Of course every season comes to an end and our time on Logos Hope is rapidly nearing completion, yet we struggle with the bitter sweet reality of saying goodbyes and looking forward to going home.
On Tuesday we plan to send home our last few boxes and then it will just be the bags that we are taking with us left to pack.
This week was another busy week. The container loading on Tues / Weds went remarkably well with 13 containers loaded onboard in 1 1/2 days. It was great to get so many of the ships community involved in the work and see everyone pulling together. It felt like the book hold must have expanding walls.
As well as the containers and packing, the kids were at school camp which they really loved and had a great time. I was acting director while Gian, our full time director was in Germany for meetings. I also helped with AV for a youth night on Friday which was packed to capacity with around 450 young people in the theatre. Heather is still very involved in drama and the Scottish dance, on call nurse and working at the Service Desk.
I am really looking forward to having my friend and old boss, Mark here for our last 2 weeks onboard. He has not been to the ship since we were in London and we have not seen him since his son died last August. I hope that we can get some good time together over the next couple of weeks. He was responsible for us joining the Logos Hope project and 10 years previously, joining the Doulos together.
