27 million

Alright, I'll get to the title of this in a bit. But first, Monday and Tuesday just had my internship, and you can read about that in my previous blog. But the version in a sentence would be: I did pretty much the same as last week, which would be made excel spreadsheets. Not too much too it. So we'll move on to the actual fun stuff that I'm excited for. Real excited.

Over last weekend the idea popped into my head about going on a cruise for spring break. So I started looking into some, and they were 500-700 pounds, that's $800-$1100 for you Americans that don't know the exchange rate. Then late Tuesday night I decided to look one more time. This time I found one, with food included keep in mind, for 296 pounds($430). So I just got really excited and told a couple buddies that wanted to go with about it and they got excited, but we had to wait for morning since it was late at night to actually do anything about it. The next morning, or I guess around noon, I was sitting in the kitchen area with Brett, and started talking about it and one of the girls on the program heard me talking about it and started asking questions about it. She then announced she was totally in and talked to her roommate who was also in, then some other girls heard about it so they joined in. It got crazy all of a sudden in that kitchen. Unfortunately I had class shortly so I couldn't actually book anything, but Abby, the first girl that heard about it, decided to call the company. There was only one room left in the original cruse we wanted to go on. So we decided to look around and Andrew, the guy Abby talked to on the phone, said he would do some checking for us as well and call back. Well, as I was heading off to class, her phone rang, but I had to go so I wouldn't be late. She texted me and told me about it. It was for 328 pounds ($525) and food was included and went from Barcelona, to La Goulette (Tunis), Tunisia to Valletta, Malta to Messina, Sicily, Italy to Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy to Genoa, Italy and back to Barcelona. They decided to book it and there were 7 other cheap rooms available. I could barely make it through class, and could not focus at all, at least we were just walking around an art gallery. So we got back from class and called and we got our rooms booked. 14 of us on the London program are going, so needless to say I'm excited and it's going to be a blast.

I'm not quite sure how to follow that up. I'm becoming a Londoner, but man, this weather. The last few days it's been 50-60 out and sunny. I think people were lying to me about all this rain business. So since it's so nice, I couldn't help myself but going outside and walking around enjoying this beautiful weather. I went to Portobello Market by myself on Friday for a few hours. It was a really neat market that stretches for 2 miles and has antiques and food and everything in between. But boy was it busy. There were a ton of people there. Then on Saturday I went to Borough Market with a couple friends and ended up finding Turkish Delight, the stuff that Edmond gets from the White Witch in the Chronicles of Narnia, and I can hardly blame him for betraying his siblings, that stuff is good.

Today gets its own paragraph. I went to church at Hillsong again. This time with about 15 others. This was not any ordinary church service, as they had Matt Redman there. It started off normal and they had their normal worship team lead in a few songs, then they had their offering. After the offering Matt Redman came out and pretty much put on a concert for an hour. Now to the title of this blog, 27 million. Matt and LZ7, a rapper, made a song about human trafficking and named it 27 Million, because there are currently 27 million humans in hostage of human trafficking. I personally like the song and it comes out tomorrow (February 27) on iTunes, and it's to gain perspective of what's going on in the world. They had a lady there talk for a while, who rowed the Atlantic Ocean. Wow. It took her and her team 45 days and they were moving non-stop. they would row for 2 hours then take 2 hours off in shifts, just to gain support for the same cause. It was a great morning and a great way to start off the week. After that, I went to Brick Lane Market with some friends and explored the area a bit.

Well, that's all I have for now, have a great week and God bless!