SEA OLYMPICS

Well as soon as we arrived on the ship we had little time to prepare for the opening ceremonies of the sea Olympics. It was really a funny site to see 700 college students get so into something so silly. There were 10 seas which competed I was part of the red sea. At the opening ceremonies each sea presented their mascot (ours was the red bull), flag, and our sea chant. Pretty much half of the kids were still drunk from our day spent at Mauritius so that increased the rowdiness of it all. After the opening ceremonies it was straight to bed because I had to participate in the 3 legged race at 9:00am the next morning!
Well when I woke up my foot hurt SOOO bad from when I hit it on the coral there was no way I could run on it in the three legged race. So I had to find someone to take my spot and I participated in the orange pass instead (yanno where you stand in a line and pass an orange down using only your neck no hands!). I swear we all did the craziest most childish things just in the hope of being able to say we were the winners of the sea Olympics! There was a tug of war game, wall sit contest, mashed potato carving contest, Sudoku, scavenger hunt, flippy cup tourney! And the most important and entertaining of all the synchronized swimming show!!! My group had been practicing for a week but not once in the pool. We were all a bit nervous since we had an audience of hundreds but I was pumped and ready to go. We did our dance to a 90’s remix and it was GREAT! We won 3rd place! I am going to try and put a video of it up soon it really was funny. The Sea Olympics was a lot of fun. It was another day off of school and it was cool to see so many people take pride in a team because I know we are all missing it. Well the red sea won the silver medal!!!! WOOOOHOOOOO It was really fun and a great time. I am so glad I participated in it and we won silver!