A tradition on the semester long voyages for Semester at Sea is the
Sea Olympics! Basically each hallway of students competes as a team
(or a sea, for example, I live in the Caribbean Sea hallway!) in a
bunch of different fun games. The opening ceremonies for the Sea
Olympics are always a lip-syncing competition the night before the day
of the Olympics. Each team is supposed to have 10 people from each
team to put together a performance for the lip-syncing. I ended up in
the wrong place at the wrong time so I got roped into participating in
this event. My team became really passionate about our lip-syncing
performance, we only had 2 days to make up the whole thing, but we
practiced a lot and it turned out hilarious! We lip synced to 5
different songs: Don't Stop Believing, She Thinks My Tractors Sexy,
International Love, Danza Kuduro, and Pound the Alarm by Niki Manaj.
It was such a random mash up of songs. I lip synced Don't Stop
Believing to open up our performance. And all our hard work paid off,
our lip-syncing won first place!! The next morning everyone met in the
Union at 10am to go over all the events (and announce my team as the
winners of the lip sync) and then at 11am the events began. There was
close to 20 different events and each person could sign up for a
couple different events to participate in. I participated in Taboo,
Phase 10, Pass the Orange (passing an orange down a line of people
only using your chin and chest…hilarious game), Tug-o-war (our first
round of Tug-o-War we competed against the adults who just happen to
have 2 body builders on their team…slightly unfair! Haha we lost
pretty quick.). The closing ceremony was a synchronized swimming
competition. Keep in mind our pool is pretty tiny! The synchronized
swimming was absolutely hilarious. Every team (there was 10 teams) did
something different with the music and dancing. Sea Olympics ended
around 4oclock, and since classes were cancelled we had the rest of
the afternoon to catch up on homework or just hang out. They didn't
announce the winner until the following day (Monday) in our Global
Studies course (the class that the whole ships attends). But my sea
tied for first!! Which means we get to depart the ship first in Ft.
Lauderdale so hopefully the lines at customs and things don't take
hours! So proud of the Caribbean Sea win!
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