Maybe because, I grew up with not too much exposure to ships, I do not know what is MV Doulos. I asked someone about it and she told me that it was a “floating library”. What? A floating library? Impossible! Actually, it was a ship full of books- like a library.
Madam Gallo told us, that all first year and second year students will be going to MV Doulos on February 13. Wow! Exciting! I wonder how a ship full of books looks like.
Fliers about MV Doulos were given. Written on it were some facts about the ship. It was built in 1914, and, wow, it is only two years younger than the Titanic. Awesome!
According to the flier, 350 volunteers from fifty countries including the Philippines, worked together on board. Amazing! I want to see some other foreigners aside from the Koreans and Americans that I usually see around the city.
Madam Gallo told us to have a buddy. Of course, my buddy was Rosa. We planned to ride on a Kaohshiung bus going to Pier 1, where the ship was docked. Unfortunately, we were not able to get a Kaohshiung bus. So, we just took the Lahug jeepneys as our means of transportation. Two jeepneys were needed for each section.
We left the campus at 12:30pm. I was very excited, really excited! I want to see the well known ship and its international crew.
All of us were very noisy inside the jeepney. Some were talking and some were joking around. I enjoyed listening to them.
We arrived at Pier 1 at around 1 pm. I finally saw the big MV Doulos ship! It was really huge! We were asked to line up before boarding the ship.
We went to the library first. There were many books. Some were fairy tale books and others were educational books. The price of the books and other items like CDs and cassette tapes, were per unit. For example, 100 units is equivalent to 100 pesos.
I have heard rumors that the owner of the MV Doulos ship is a Christian. He made it his ministry to go around to different countries bringing with them the news of Jesus Christ through selling Christian books especially the Bible.
I went to the comfort room of the ship to have my personal thing. When I went inside, the room was very warm because it has no window and no ventilation. I did urinate, at the same time I was sweating.
After a few hours roaming around the library, we were asked to line up again. Line up again? For what? “ I wanted to go home now!”, I murmured.
I thought that we will be going again to the library. But I was wrong. Instead, we went to their mini auditorium. We were entertained there. Videos were played. A few games were conducted. We were also made to guess the country represented by five crew members.
A few hours inside the auditorium, we went to the library again. Again, I read some books. After a short while, I have noticed that only me and my buddy, Rosa were UPians left there. I was scared and upset. What if they have left? What are we going to do? Fortunately we saw our colleagues down there waiting for the jeepneys. I find my trip to MV Doulos fun yet tiresome one.
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