Malachi's Musings

I'm back on the Africa Mercy.  I want to take you on a tour.  First, we'll start in my cabin and then go out.  If you go aft from my cabin then you'll see some stairs.  If you go up them you will be on deck 7.  There are some class rooms and an outside play area.  The play area is sort of medium sized.  It's big enough to play a small game of soccer.  There are two swings that hang from the ceiling.  Then you can go up the outside stairs to deck 8.  Deck 8 is an outside deck.  On the aft section there's a big crane and a bunch of work equipment and containers.  Then there's the pool.  You have to go up some more stairs to get to it because it's on a raised platform.  Forward of the pool there's some land rovers, the stack (where the smoke comes out from the engines), and other areas that I'm not allowed in.

Then, if you go back down to deck 7, back down to deck 6, and keep going aft from the stairs we went up, there's the main part of the Academy.  There's the 'big' room and some classrooms and some cabins.  Then we'll walk back forward, past our cabin, and you come to the Midships Lounge.  The Midships Lounge is on both the port and starboard side with a little walkway connecting them and a railing where you look down onto the Town Square on deck 5 below.  The Midships lounge has chairs, tables, couches, board games, and the internet cafe. 

Below in the Town square is the Cafe, snack bar, and ship shop.  The cafe has a bunch of round tables that you can sit at.  You can buy Starbucks coffee but I'm not allowed to have it.  In the snack bar there's and chips and sodas and stuff.  The ship shop has key chains and little snacks and other things like tooth paste. 

If you go forward from the Town Square you can see some offices with people working in them.  Then there's reception and the gangway, where we go on and off the ship.  Further forward is the dining room where we eat.  That's as far forward as you can go on deck 5.  In the dining room there's these really steep stairs that go up to the International Lounge where we have our community meetings.  If you go back down the steep stairs, past the dining room and down more stairs you're on deck 4.  That deck just has cabins.

Then you go down again to deck 3 - the hospital.  It has wards and operating rooms and a pharmacy and other hospital stuff.  Deck 2 is the boutique, weight room, storage areas, and I don't know what else.  Deck 1 is the Engine Room.

There's other parts but I don't really want to talk about them.  I hope you liked my post.

- Malachi