A FLOATING LIBRARY

Have you ever gone to a library? Surely, all of us have already visited a library. Me, I have gone to a library in our school. A library is a place where you can see a collection of books .But what I’m about to share to you now isn’t just a common library. It’s a floating library!!

What comes to your mind upon hearing the phrase “a floating library”? Do you picture out books floating in the water? Books floating in the sea? Well, the latter one may be nearer on my real meaning in the phrase “a floating library”. What I meant was a library in a big ship. It was my first time to visit a library in a ship. Well, maybe, my other classmates too were first timers to see a library in a ship. The name of the ship is M.V Doulos, sounds familiar? Well, the UP High School Cebu decided to have a tour in M.V Doulos knowing that students don’t have to pay the entrance fee and the teachers that will accompany us (the students) will just pay a small amount worth ten pesos only. It was such a great idea for the UP students. The tour was on Thursday and Friday. The first year and second year students(including me) had their tour on Thursday while the third and fourth year student had their tour on Friday. Being one of the second year students so I have gone to M.V Doulos that Thursday. It was really a big ship. It’s crew is composed of mixed nationalities. We first formed a very long line before we have aboarded the ship. When we aboarded the ship, we then went to the library. There are so many kinds of books there, books for children, for cooking, for students, for everyone! We really had fun reading short fairy tales there with my friends. There were a lot of books there that were really interesting to read just like what I saw. It was entitled “How to study well”. Well, that book is really important for us, students, not only UP students but also the other students in other schools. We have to admit that we really need to know how to study well, don’t we? I just realize that those books can greatly help everyone who goes there. Me and my friends decided to go out of the library to watch other places in the ship. We didn’t know that once you get out of the library, you can’t go in there again because the entrance way of the library is in the other side of the boat and the only way you can go there again is if you go out of the ship and go in again in the very entrance stairs to aboard the ship. So we just decided to stay in where we were even though it was boring there. You have no nice scenery there that you can see. Luckily, my classmate Brigitte decided to buy an ice cream worth thirty pesos! And she bought us ice creams too (such a true friend).We spent our time eating the delicious ice cream there.

It was such a nice experience there. I really had fun and I’ve seen a lot of nice books there. Hope you have gone there too. That’s all, have a nice day!!