BIG NEWS.

... We had ice cream for the first time on the ship in about a month and a half. We get a lot of our food from containers that come from Holland (Mercy Ships has an office in Holland; hence, Dutch containers). In any case, our frozen container was supposed to come in over a week ago, and on it was the much anticipated ice cream (and bacon, for that matter. Ever since I arrived on ship, I kept hearing the phrase, "No bacon until June"). The frozen container finally, finally arrived at the beginning of this week. After community meeting tonight, we busted out the boxes of ice cream and stood around Midships, eating globs of delicious ice cream.

It's times like these when you think of how funny it is that ordinary life goes on, even in the most un-ordinary of circumstances. I mean, you're in Africa, living on a hospital ship where patients get life-changing surgeries day after day-- and yet sometimes, the most exciting thing that happens in your day is eating a bowl of ice cream.