Calling Housekeeping!

I am on the Africa Mercy housekeeping! You wonder what this entitles? Let me tell you.
My day starts at 7:15, I wake up to get to breakfast as it finishes at 7:30. Then at 8:00 I go to the laundry room to meet my fellow housekeeper's! There we have a time of prayer and then we are allocated our work for the day. I am on deck 7. I start with cleaning toilets; that's the first job of the day! There are 8 toilets to clean on deck 7 - not too bad, could be way worse! There are 2 of us cleaning so we chat as we go along...
After toilets it's time to sweep the floors. While we go around we get to meet the crew who live on deck 7 or have an office there - it's like a different world on deck 7! The great thing is I found a crew member who speaks Spanish, so I get my daily recap of Spanish! Que Bien!

We collect the rubbish or as they say here "trash". One of the places we actually go to collect the rubbish and clean is the Bridge (this is the place the Captain of the ship navigates from when sailing). There are good views from there - it's one of my highlights for the day!
We have a break and then get on with cleaning offices and public rooms, we also do checks on the toilet, better not forget them!!! We clean the windows of doorways and vacuum the rugs infront of them. Lunch break comes, yippeee.
After lunch we have a devotional time with the team. After this we carry on with checking the toilets... again! The stairways are our next job, we sweep them and then mop them. Oh and another thing is disinfecting the hand rails with spray! To finish off the day we check the toilets!!!!!
That is roughly my routine as a housekeeper. I will be doing this till the middle of January when the hospital re-opens!

As I am writing this we have left Freetown, Sierra Leone and are sailing towards Ghana. Please pray for safe sailing to Ghana!

Bye Bye Sierra Leone