Feb 2^nd, 2011

The past few days have been really boring, just straight class. I didn’t end up having to work today because a teacher needs me to help email all his students their grades and he didn’t have them fnished so they asked me to work tomorrow instead even though on the day of the sea Olympics we aren’t supposed to work. But tonight was our sea Olympics opening ceremony. For those of you who don’t know what the sea Olympics is it is basically the Olympics on the boat. We are divided into seas based on where we live by room number and place on the ship. I am in the Baltic Sea and light blue is our color. I decided to be part of our cheering committee and helped design the cheer for our team. We used the song Pump It by the black eyed peas. It was a really awesome remix to include stuff about our sea and the other seas and it went so so so so wrong. I was one of 4 standing in front of everyone on stage to lead the team in the cheer however the rest of my team couldn’t hear the music where they were and it got completely messed up… soooooo bad. I was so embarrassed hahahaha. It would have been such a good cheer too. We had to also make banners for our team and ours was seriously the best. We tied for first with the yellow sea which we soooo should have one. I was really upset all night about the whole cheer thing though. I am so competitive that it was so annoying that it was messed up because no one cared to listen to the ones who made it about how it went.  Oh well. Tomorrow is the actual Olympics and I am so excited! Too bad I have to get up and work before!

Feb 3^rd, 2011

SEA OLYMPICS!!!!! So last night the people next to us, who are ALWAYS so loud and these walls are soooooo paper thin decided to stay up all night long and scream and laugh. We called security on them twice because it got that annoying. So not only did we not get to sleep until 2, the clocks advanced another hour ahead last night. Needless to say when the alarm clock went off at 830 I was sooooo tired. I went to go work with my professor and he told me that he actually just did it all himself so I didn’t even end up having to work and ended up going back to bed for an hour before the Olympics started. We got all decked out just like the night before. I cut my shirt into a muscle shirt and put eye liner on my face as war paint…. I looked fierce as always. The day was fulllll of events, I wont go into them all. I have a lot of videos to post when I get back home. We have synchronized swimming which was so much more funny than I had expected. Our team was full of boys in crazy crazy outfits doing such funny things but we ended up getting disqualified because we went over time when everyone said we should have won which sucks. We ended up doing really well in a lot of other events though. We actually got jipped in a lot of events. We lost by 2 points in trivia. Our team bet 1998 dollars and if they bet 2000 we would have tied. Omg it was so sad, and so intense. We also technically won the highest card house which was SO huge but they deducted points for us ripping the cards even though they said we could do whatever we wanted. A lot more happened but I know no one wants to hear about every single event! :P We had a barbeque tonight. It was the first time I have had a hot dog or a hamburger in SOOOOOOOO Long. Even corn on the cob, ugh so good. Back to pasta, potatoes and salad every single day. We had the closing ceremonies tonight where they announced the actual places. We all expected to do terrible and all the sudden they mentioned third place, the third to get off the boat and… BALTIC SEA GOT IT. We were so freaking excited!!!! It was totally unexpected since we got jipped all day. The first place team was also a big shock and completely unexpected. Well I am off to try to get some sleep tonight since I was so deprived last night. Miss everyone!!!!