We had a "Spa Day" on the ward yesterday. It was discovered that a bunch of patients had lice, so we had to treat all the patients and their caregivers with lice shampoo, which required every females to remove all the braids from their hair... quite the process! Despite them being a little self conscious about taking their hair out (not everyone was thrilled about rocking an Afro while their hair got shampooed and combed out), or bummed because their hair took hours to braid, they all did it without complaining, and of course everyone helped each other out. I just think about how much complaining/resisting there would have been if we were in the same situation in the states! Who knows, maybe they were complaining and I just couldn't understand them because it was in Wolof!! Either way it made for a much busier shift and lots of laundry for the crew. We've now had a covid, GI and lice outbreak since I've been on board the AFM. Thankfully I've managed to dodge them all and hopefully that's the end of it! Gotta love the ship life!

In other news, my bunk mate and I got to switch to a slightly larger berth in our cabin, we have about an extra 5 square ft, which almost doubles our floor space- moving up in the world! We got a new cabin mate who is a Dutch nurse and getting a 5th person, a woman from Sierra Leone. Should be fun!