Sierra Leone, Day 9

Today was the big show!

I spent nearly the whole day in the depths of PowerPoint, compiling each sub-team's slides and ensuring consistency between various formats and themes. After years of school presentations and compiling College Life PowerPoint slides every week for the last year, it felt like I was trained just for this moment!After lunch, we met and tried out a dry run of our whole presentation. Afterwards constructive criticism was exchanged and the presentation was tweaked in a few spots.
We got a short break after meeting to decompress, eat dinner, and then we headed up to the international room, a meeting room with around 150-200 seats, where we were scheduled to present. There were a few minor issues with transferring over the PowerPoint file to their system computer, but once we got those figured out we were ready to go!
To my surprise, around 50-60 people showed up to hear what we had to say! Of the group there, only a few were actually involved in off-ship programs, everyone else simply had a genuine interest in the status of the three primary hospitals in Sierra Leone! A very encouraging turn-out, and the actual presentation went super well. Every person who spoke was concise and we only went a few minutes over our time limit.

Geoff presenting his electrical summary

The Q&A proved to be very educational as well, and after everything was through the director of off-ship programs affirmed the work we did and how this is a amazing starting point for this new venture into complete health care improvement, from staff to facilities. He also said if I didn't have anything going on after eMi, I should give him a call. Something to pray about! :)
Another awesome day in Sierra Leone and on the Mercy Ship! The day was concluded by an intense game of Jenga with some of the on-ship staff. Brought back some good memories from playing Jenga on houseboats last summer!

Too bad you can't see how the boat is swaying in this picture!

Tomorrow we're headed to River #2, apparently one of the best beaches in Sierra Leone, for a day of debriefing and processing the trip. Looking forward to getting that time with the team!
-Mike