The Sea Olympics!!!!!

            So, the day after Mauritius, we held the Sea Olympics! Each deck is split into different sections (except mine because our space is limited by the crew, so we are all one sea, creating the biggest sea) to create ‘seas’. Mine is the Aegean, then there’s the Yellow, Baltic, Bering, Red, Mediterranean, and some others I can’t remember. The Lifelong Learners (older folks) are the “Salty Dogs”, the dependent children are the “Sea Squirts” and the teachers are the “Prof’s a Sea” (like prophecy - haha). We had opening ceremonies and everyone performed their cheers. The two funniest were the prof’s a sea and the salty dogs. The teachers, led by my amazing architecture teacher, screamed out a prophecy of how all of us ‘minions’ would bow down to them – it was quite hilarious. Then, the Salty Dogs did a cute rhyming chant, ending with “who let the dogs out” and them barking (ruff ruff). That was hysterical.

There were many events, including volleyball, taboo, Dean Mumpta says (extreme simon says), trivia, scavenger hunt, human knot, blah blah blah and, my personal favorite, synchronized swimming. As I was trying to get homework done throughout the day, I would watch some, help some others, and then go back to my room. I went with some friends to a bridge tour, entering the forbidden land of the crew, to see how they run the ship. It was quite cool and pretty funny because there were only four of us, all from my sea. That meant we were all wearing green. So, the officer giving the tour waited a second, then asked, “ Are there any more of you green people coming?” haha. Afterward, we went to support our friends in the end rounds of trivia and then we went to catch the end of the synchronized swimming. I’m not going to lie, I think that was the best thing ever. We saw the last two groups perform, one of which was the prof’s a sea. Imagine four male teachers coming out of the shower area with towels around and shower caps on, dancing to music, then jumping in the pool and actually performing some synchronized moves, ending with my fantastically amazing architecture teacher laying across the arms of the other three men for the finale. It was the funniest thing I’d seen today. I recorded most of it (it took me a minute to remember I had my phone with me).

One of the other seas won, so we don’t get to go off the ship first, but either way, it was a fabulously hilarious day and I’m very glad I got to see some of the events.