October 20 21 2010 / MV Explorer

First of all I can’t believe that there are only like six of each classes left.  Um, wat.  After classes were finished on the 20th, we worked all night on our Sea Olympics preparations.  At first I was incredibly not into the preparations at all, because our Sea Meeting was super stressful.  I don’t know why, but our LLC (Living Learning Coordinator) always says very anxiety-inducing things as opposed to just letting everything go and us having a fun time with everything.  For our banner, we decided to incorporate a bunch of different things into an amazing bit of nonsense—Greek letters spelling out AEGEAN SEA, with marble pillars on the side, with a SEA MONSTER in the middle (that is, of course, purple!).  The sea monster turned into an octopus and it’s super awesome.  We had some artistically talented folk draw it while I helped color in the lines (although Jared quickly demoted me, because I am not good enough at coloring in the lines, it seems).  Jared and I sat on the steps of Deck 2 and wrote the words to our chant.  I had the idea to remake the YMCA song into the AGNC (which sounds like our sea name).  Here is the final product, if you’re interested:

Club Med, there’s no need to feel down,
I said, Bering, get yourself off the ground,
I said, Baltic, make sure not to go drown,
There’s no use to be on your sea.
Yellow, there’s no place you can go,
I said, Red sea, when you’re short on your dough,
I said, Nomer, when your joints start to grind,
And we’ll be having a good time—
It’s fun to live in the A-G-N-C,
It’s fun to live in the A-G-N-C-eee.
They have everything, that you would want to do
You can hang out with all the crew.
It’s fun to live in the A-G-N-C,
It’s fun to live in the A-G-N-C-eee.
There’s no need to be green, or a terrible teal,
Purple’s cute as a harbor seal,
It’s fun to live in the A-G-N-C,
It’s fun to live in the A-G-N-C-eee.
A-G-N-C! 
(Yell this loudly and strike a sassy pose.  :D)

As you can clearly see, this is the best chant to ever exist.  Our duties done, we went to sleep around one or two in the morning. 

The next morning Julie and Jared and I got breakfast together around 0800.  There was a small child who delighted in terrifying me by creeping up on me and making hissing noises.  He was being a cheetah, which I suppose is excusable as that was a favorite pastime of mine when I was that age as well.  After breakfast I took a nap, and then Julie and I lipsticked AG NC on our faces.  We also busted out the acrylic paint and smeared it on like war paint, much to Jared’s horror, as apparently that kind of thing is not good for your skin.  We met on our Deck 2 space, taught the chant, and went upstairs.  I brought the paint, which was utilized by everyone.  Everyone was slapping handprints on each other and writing AGNC on their arms.  It was totally badass.  People were talking a lot of smack—our team, to our credit, was quiet, but filled with spirit!  “Deck 2, hangin’ with the crew” is my favorite chant, followed by “Purple is the way to be, we are the Aegean Sea.”  At the rally, all the other seas chanted like summer camp kids—we were the only people who came up with our own song. 

After the rally we went upstairs to see the Synchronized Swimming event, but it was too packed, so I just went over to cheer on AGNC for limbo—Ellie and Julie were both doing it, and they were doing AWESOME!  One person got into second place from our sea.  We then did Tug of War—I screamed my heart out!  We beat the toughest team but then lose in the final round because we had to go repeatedly without stopping—if we’d rested we probably could have won it.  At this point we had placed in everything, and were losing only to the Caribbean Sea.  Being as that I’m never on a winning team in anything, I was incredibly excited.  Julie and I went to watch the Lip Synching competition next—it looked like so much fun!  There was a “Holding Out for A Hero,” Ours was most certainly the best—it was a mashup of Single Ladies, Bad Romance, some Britney Spears song I don’t remember (an older one), Genie in a Bottle, I Like Big Butts that transformed mid lyric to some Justin Bieber song—it was just incredibly glorious, and then to Thriller!!  It was OFF THE HOOK.  I wish I had signed up for it, all the dance moves just looked like they were so much fun.  We placed first, ~*~naturally.~*~

We ended up getting beaten by the Caribbean Sea, which made me kind of grumpy because I felt like they weren’t being very sportsmanlike a good amount of the time, plus I was bummed to have been so close to victory (we were in second place!) and have it be taken away.  Now we’re doomed to leave the ship dead last.  We were pretty down that night, because we were all feeling pretty competitive, but I haven’t felt such pride for a team I was a part of in a long time.  It was awesome.

Oh, and I finished Cat's Cradle.  I FEEL CHEATED, THAT BOOK WAS WACK.  And yet I really enjoyed it.  :o

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