Sea Olympics

Seeing as I haven’t posted in a while (honestly I can’t even remember when it was so I’m sorry if there are repeats in here), I’ll just cover the nine-day Atlantic crossing first. It took nine days. We had eight days of classes, four each, and it got to be a really small space after a while. I’m so used to leading a semi active lifestyle with the very minimal activity being at least walking 10-15 minutes to class. On the ship, we walk 1.3 minutes, get to class, sit down, walk another 1.4 minutes to the back deck and lay out, then eat, then read, then lay out, then hang out, then do some work, then not walk ever. The cardio room is so small it’s discouraging to even go into and who am I kidding, when is the last time I hit up an elliptical? It’s my Ghanaian resolution to start getting out though. Anyway, the most activity we’ve had so far was the Sea Olympics last Wednesday. While the Yellow Sea didn’t place, my three-legged race relay team did get third. Pretty solid I’d say. Overall however, while it was a fun day and a much-needed break from classes, the whole thing didn’t quite live up to my expectations. The Sea Salts, otherwise known as Life Long Learners, put on a hilarious synchronized swimming routine. Six old men came out in shorts, towel capes, life jackets and swim caps. Once the music started they took off their shorts. While five of them had swim trunks on, one guy, who happens to be the oldest man on the ship at 89, was wearing his whitey-tighties. Too funny. They did a cute little routine in the water and definitely should have won.

After a day of activities, dinner was outstanding. We had a cook out complete with burgers, hot dogs, amazing ribs, corn on the cob and everything else delicious you can imagine. Other than that and the Sea Salt’s performance, I was just expecting a lot more out of the day…like I said before, I really need to stop having preconceived notions of what’s going to happen.  We had two more days of classes after that and then we docked in Takoradi, Ghana on Sunday morning (yes, another Sunday port. I don’t know what message SAS is trying to send docking us every Sunday when everything is closed).

I'm trying to break up posts as much as I can to save you all from HUGE novel posts so another one will be coming about Ghana shortly!