Well, in Belem someone got sick, just a little travel bug, but shortly after we left EVERYONE got sick except for the professional crew and a few students, including lucky me! At one point there were about 22 people sick, like throwing up sick. It got to the point where we had to cancel school for a day, even a lot of the teachers were sick. We had 22 bunks filled with sicklings! The ones who weren’t sick had to do everyones galley and watches (I stood a four hour night watch from 2am-4am), and it kind of sucked sometimes because it was a lot of work for not very many people. But the people who weren’t sick got a surplus of food because none of the sick people ate! That meant more grilled cheese sandwiches for meee! All the lights were off in the banjer and If you went up on deck and then came back down it literally felt like death down there. Paul, one of the AB’s was making a bookshelf out of this old piece of wood and I asked him to go make me a cross so I could bless the well ones and the banjer, it worked for a few people! One day Peter, another one of our AB’s suggested that the sick people get some fresh air, so he took them up to the boat deck. It looked like everybody wanted to die! everyone had no colour in their face and not a hint of happiness. Everyone eventually got better, the Belem bug was cured, we called it the Black Plague!
After everyone was cured we could really enjoy sailing in the Caribbean! The water was blue all the time, the winds were blowing, and the sun was shining. We got some great tans on our way to Grenada J
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