Oct 21: Sea Olympics



Sea Olympics - Sync Swimming
Theme:  Aged



Today is show time for the Sea Olympics.  This is a regular event on all cruses where teams of students are matched in such events as Ping-Pong, crab soccer, chopstick ice cube race, paper-scissors- rock, Jeopardy, sustainable art contest, tug-of-war and synchronized swimming.  Students are divided into groups with the name of a Sea such as Mediterranean Sea.  The faculty, staff and lifelong learners also make up one team called “No Mer” Sea as in “give them no mercy”.  Each team has a color, creates a banner for the opening parade and a team cheer. 

The events started with the Synchronized swimming and the “adults” from the No Mer Sea team were first to go.  The No Mer Sea team theme was old age, I think.  The picture below should tell the story better than I.



Sea Olympics - No Mer Sea
Sync Swimming



Julie was a member of the Sustainable Art contest team.  Each team was given empty pop cans, cereal boxes, toilet roles, straws, popcorn bags, plastic fork, tooth picks and paper clips and 30 minutes to create something that presented a concept that represented sustainable living.  The No Mer Sea team did not place in this competition.  Julie was also a member of the chop stick and ice cube race where the objective of the competition was to transfer ice cubes from one bucket to another using chop sticks.  Julie and her team mates won this competition.



 The last completion was the lip synch contents and all the teams from the different Seas competed and all were very good.  Overall the No Mer Sea team placed third in the overall standings.  It was a long day but a lot of fun.