Vietnam and had an incredible time. I'll write about it soon
hopefully, but I first want to talk about the fun shiplife times I had
between India and Singapore, because they were some of my favorite
ship days.
So the first day back on the ship after India was the Sea Olympics.
The ship is divided into Seas (Caribbean Sea, Agean Sea, Baltic Sea,
Red Sea, Yellow Sea (thats me), etc) based on where you live on the
ship. In the Sea Olympics, each Sea competes for the prize of being
the first to get off the ship in San Diego. The events included potato
carving, water pass, dodgeball, volleyball, lip syncing, synchronized
swimming, and fashion show. It was a lot of fun. It was a little hard
having it the day after the tiring week in India, but we pulled
through, gave it our all and had a blast. I competed in Volleyball,
lip syncing and synchronized swimming. It was funny how that worked
because it was going to be all guys, but they needed one more person
and they were like, even a girl, and I volunteered. Turned out to be a
great decision. I had a blast! I relived my 8-year old days of
choreographing synchronize swimming routines with my best friends
Jessy and Jenny in their little pool. We did a routine to 1000 miles
("making my way down town, walking fast, faces pass and I'm home
bound")..a song from middle school that we all know. The story's kind
of a love song, so a guy in our sea, Joey and I acted out a love story
on land and in the water, while the other 4 guys lifted and threw me
in the water and did other synchronized movements. I had so much fun
coming up with the routine and of course really, really getting into
the acting (which was mostly intense facial expressions and big body
movements). We put it together within an hour and were super proud of
it. We went first and it was the best we had ever done it. We had only
run it through once in the pool before that! After our performance the
crowd cheered so loud! We all gave each other big high fives
immediately after because we knew it was the best we had done it!
Everyone throughout the whole day kept saying we had the best
performance and that we should definitely win. For some reason we
didn't even place (rumor is it was because we didn't have costumes).
Who knows, but everyone was outraged, and so many people I didn't even
know came up to me and were like "I'm so mad you didn't win. This is
ridiculous. You guys were definitely the best!!!" It was so funny.
People got so into it! Oh man, I had so much fun doing that routine.
It made me realize how much I love and miss acting. The last event of
the day was lip synching. We tried to make up a routine to a mash up
of songs, but no one was really into it and no one was a dancer who
could choreograph some wonderful routine. We came up with a pathetic
routine which included some zumba moves I added and then we decided to
add our swimming routine only on land, but this time have costumes and
had signs that said "Maybe this time..." It was a good thing we added
our great swimming routine, because almost every other sea had some
elaborately choreographed routine that was incredibly entertaining and
well rehearsed. Our sea got close to last place overall but thats
ok...we still had such a blast. Everyone got so into it. Each sea had
chants and we were all decked out in our sea colors. There was so much
spirit!! We had such a fun time all day..it was probably my favorite
day on the ship.
2 days later was the talent show. Bryana and I sang a duet from Rent
"Take me baby or leave me." I had so much fun preparing for it and
performing it. I got so into it-acting wise. It's a sassy song with a
lot of attitude, so it was so much fun getting all into it! We
performed it for friends a bunch of times ahead of time. The
performance went well-though I wish it could've been nerve-free!
There's so much talent on the ship!! The talent show went on for 3
hours! People were so sweet afterwards, complimenting me! I was on
such a high from so much performing from the past 2 days. It made me
realize that's really where my passion is I guess. Traveling the
world, and realizing how big you can dream and seeing all those
opportunities out there has made me really dream lately…I've been
revisiting pursuing acting and singing more lately. Maybe I'll
audition to be a performer on cruise ships or Disney or something.
People on the ship are so supportive of this idea. Who knows...we'll
see. God has something great in store for me I know. This experience
really blows your mind and changes you in so many ways. You have time
to think and reflect, and you have all of these realizations and new
views and ideas. It really is life changing. I just can't get over it.
Here's some pictures from the synchronize swimming and lip sync -
courtesy of our shipboard photographer. the 2nd pictures is a
different sea's routine, but I wanted to show the whole crowd, and the
last picture is the lip sync synchronize swimming routine on land:
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