I Currently Live On The Amazon River, So That's Cool...

I woke up today and we were sailing down the Amazon River!  All of today we have been able to see the Amazon Jungle on both sides of the ship.  Most of the day we spent anchored in the middle of the River so that some people from the Brazilian Embassy could come onto the ship and speak with us.  I am not sure if that was really the reason we were docked for so long, but that is my guess.  I was able to go outside and get some great pictures from the sides of the ship!  In Travel Writing class, a couple of the guests came in to talk to us about their writing, what they do and how they got into it, which was very interesting to listen to.

For dinner tonight a bunch of us got dressed up and went to the dining hall.  I have no idea why.  I was just told to wear a dress…  I actually brought one with me (other than my dress for the Ambassador’s Ball) so I wore that.  I’m still not sure what was going on, but it was fun anyway.  Of course, then I went straight back to my room and changed back into my usually jeans and t-shirt look.

                The day before yesterday I volunteered to play guitar for the worship service on board.  Yesterday I found a guitar I could rent to use to lead.  Today I worked out all of the songs I would play and now I just got back from our first worship service!  I think it went pretty well.  I had a lot of people come up to me afterwards saying that I did really well, asking if they could help with music in anyway, or asking if we could get together and play some.  They either didn’t notice all of my mistakes and nervousness or were nice enough to pretend it wasn’t there.  So our first night of worship was a success!  Praise the Lord!

                I am not sure what else I need to mention about today…  Shrek was on TV!  I didn’t watch it, but it was there, so that was exciting.  Anyway…  Here is a picture of the Amazon River at sunset!