Mark Anthony Esperida

A Love Affair With MV Doulos and Books

We visited MV Doulos last February 12,2007, one of the world’s oldest ship that is still traveling.
MV Doulos was a really a great ship. Imagine it was built in the year 1914, two years younger than the oldest and famous ship, Titanic, but still it is sailing. Being the world’s largest sea traveling bookstore, as what I have learned, it carries around 6,000 books from place to place, across the seas and oceans to reach the different parts of the world.
In their book fair, I was very happy because being a book-lover, I found books that I like. I want to buy all of them but I have no budget. I only bought a crossword puzzle book. I love those science books, yhat are full of information, story books and mystery books that are full of wonderful stories and some have freaky chapters. The answer-question books that was my favorite were there and once I scanned the pages I can’t get my hands off them. I bought a crossword and word find book so that I can learn something while spending my free time. I love word find books. There are many books that I liked to buy but because I have no budget, I bought only one.
I tasted their ice cream, with vanilla flavor. The taste was really delicious, sensational and top notched. The cost is really worth it.
There was a program after we visited the book fair. There were lectures and demonstrations that some of my schoolmates joined. There were games that everyone laughed and had fun.
We had fun while we were on board. They taught lessons about God and people around the world that help voluntarily. They distributed some magazines and as I read them I said to myself that MV Doulos will live longer. Their magazines are full of God's words. Magazines are very ordinary paper materials for us but for them, these are important materials. They use it as paper materials that can help people know about God. Even if they have different religions, they want to share the goodness of God. They believe that God in their different religions, is just one. You can also see in their magazines that they persevered to make it because you can see their beautiful drawings. Their magazines also tells a lesson that being good children of God is like loving people around the world.
After the lecture, I learned that Doulos is not just an ordinary ship. It does not only travel around the world to bring those books. It is also about different races of people that shows harmony and cooperation. From their earnings, they help poor people around the world. They have built charities that adopts homeless people around the world and held feeding programs to feed people. They have helped many people around the continents but they are still helping until now.
Hope that Doulos will come back here in the country so that the next generation would learn a lot of lesson in life.

posted by markanthony @ 4:02 PM