So the sail between Vietnam and India is about 6 days. There really isn’t too much to tell about life on the boat, except we did have Sea Olympics one the 7th. Now, this has been the highlight of ship life. Sea Olympics is Color War…you know overnight camp Color War. Now each section of the hallway is divided into sea’s. This has been this way from the start. My sea is the Bering Sea and my LLC is Rob. They split you up so that your LLC can hold Sea Socials and other fun events so that you can meet people in your sea/part of the hallway. It’s like how an RA sets up events so you can get to know everyone in your hall/dorm floor. Now our sea has been pretty close from the start. Because we can’t get internet in our rooms we always sit out in the hallway (we can pick up the signal there). So we’ve gotten to know everyone that way. People from other seas always walk down our hall in astonishment, because it is always a party out there. We are also one of the only seas that have been talking about the Sea Olympics since day one. Color War, at least at EKC, was always 2-3 days. Here it was only one day. You signed up for different competitions and tried to win. The award for winning…being the first of the ship in Ft. Lauderdale. Win or lose I was not even planning on getting off the ship right away. I want to be able to say goodbye to everyone, but at the same time I don’t like to lose. I signed up for Tug of War, Dodgeball, and Wheelbarrow race. I ended up dropping out of the wheelbarrow race because it was part of the relay race and me and this other girl Kerry wouldn’t have been fast enough so we got two boys to do it instead.
Now we decided our team would be called the Bering Sea Ninja Crabs and the color we were assigned was black. You had to make up a cheer so ours was to the Men in Black theme song and went like this:
“Here comes the sea in black
Gold medal defenders
We are the Ninja Crabs
Other seas surrender”
We would the repeat that and at the end we go BBEERR-IINNG (I’ll have to imitate it for you) and then make claws with our hands and make a pinching sound. It was hysterical.
Tug of War was embarrassing. The Red Sea had a stacked team. They had two guys both way over 200 pounds, plus this huge girl who plays softball. Everyone lost to them in two seconds. Our team was the smallest for sure and we got pulled about like rag dolls. The first time we didn’t hear them say “go” and no one even got a chance to pull. We asked for a redo and they gave it to us…not like it mattered. But we thought if we were going to lose, we were going to lose trying. We lost worst the second go around haha.
Then we got third in trivia but the person who proctored it gave a hint to the team that knocked us out in the finals. The question was how many students are on this boat…we guessed 585, and the correct answer is 586, and the proctor was like “ew so close” so the other team knew what to guess. Then we had dress up your LLC and it had to go with the topic of sustainability (since that is the theme of the voyage). We collected water bottles and punched holes in them and made a dress out of them for Rob and we didn’t even place. Once you see all the other ones you’ll be amazed at how we didn’t place. Then there was the lip sync competition. The songs were randomly given out and we got Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” (a pop song). We had probably a top 3 performances and didn’t rank because the judges didn’t know the song and picked all the kid friendly ones (Yellow Submarine, Thriller (and they just repeated the dance), Bohemian Rhapsody (which was funny and deserved to place), and Under the Sea). While I know I’m bias, the top 3 should have been our, Bohemian Rhapsody, and a sea that did the Spice Girls.
Okay, so we got shafted a few times. Going into lunch we were not ranked very high at all. But after lunch we dominated. We got second in limbo even though we should have gotten 1st. The girl who one ducked her head to the side when she went under which you are not really allowed to do. Kelly, our limb-ist played fair the whole time. Oh well, second is still good. We got first in Dean White Says (Simon Says) and tied for first in the pull up contest, and third for spirit, and second in dodgeball.
Now I was on the dodgeball team. There were four of us, two guys and two girls. I forgot how much I missed playing dodgeball until this game. We rocked it. I was named MVP, unofficially, by my teammates. I have always played defensively. I’m not strong enough or accurate enough to throw but I can catch. So even if it was three on one I would just roll the balls back to the other team and let them throw it at me and it worked. I continually was the last person in and continually kept bringing people back into the game to help win it. We made it to the finals and we ran into some problems. One of our guys shoulder got all messed up and he couldn’t throw it as well. Overall, dodgeball was frustrating because the “ref” kept changing the rules. One rule was if a person gets hit in the head and it is bad enough then the person who threw it is out….not the person who got hit. Well, the first game (it was best out of three) I was the last one in and I got nailed in the head. Dead center on my ear and when I felt to the ground I simultaneously get hit in the butt with another ball. I was pissed because the ref called me out because two balls hit me. But when I stood up I couldn’t hear out of my left ear. It was like right after I shot the gun at the Cu Chi Tunnels. I personally thought that under the circumstances and the rules the guy should have been out and I should have gotten another shot. We lost the game and we got second. Overall, it was a blast and I had an amazing time and will probably do intramural dodgeball when it starts up.
They left a few scores unrevealed for the final ceremonies and going into them we were in third place. We expected to place in some of the events that were being announced but they only one we placed in was spirit. After everything was said and done we ended up getting knocked out of third and into forth. :( But as much of a bummer as it was I had the most amazing time.
That night they cooked us a barbeque and I ate so much corn. Now the pool, I think I mentioned before, is really tiny. After dinner, everyone piled into the pool, clothes and all. We tried to see how many people we could fit in the pool. It was nuts. We got everyone from staff to the children in that pool. There are some crazy pictures. At first I wasn’t going to get in and then I was like ‘hell I’m on a ship’ and jumped in. Uh, it was one of the best days on the ship by far.
Oh and most importantly, that mask I bought in Shanghai finally came in handy. It scared the crap out of so many people because it looks like a real face just painted. It’s so hard to explain. But I wore it every second I wasn’t eating or involved in an event. It was hysterical.
I’m going to try to load some pictures on here from my friend’s computer. So you’ll get to see some of the stuff from Hawaii all the way through the Sea Olympics hopefully soon.
Tomorrow I’ll be in India and will write here as soon as I can.
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