Oct 9 SEA OLYMPICS

I have never seen so much chaos in my entire life. Just try and imagine 800 college kids on a small ship with 5 different events/relays going on while a ship is rocking. OH MY GOOD GRACIOUS!! First off I had to get up early with the committee and set all the events up and get all the props to their places. We also had to set up signs/schedules/reminders so that the dumb college kids knew where to go and what time they had to be there. Of course it never makes anything easier but I’d like to think it helped some. The Volleyball tourney was not my job but I heard that it was just crazy and they had to cut it short because it went an hour and half over the time we allotted for it. The biggest events were the Olympic Relay and the workout relay. The Olympic relay I was not only help run but I was actually participating in it! This relay consisted of an orange pass, 3-legged race, wheelbarrow race, and balancing a cup on 2 fingers. The orange pass is trying to pass an orange down a row of 16 ppl with just your chin. Lets just say this got more than just a little riskay but it was absolutely the most entertaining thing I have seen in a while. Then off to tag the 3 legged people and then they tagged the wheel barrow group who then tagged the people balancing a plastic cup on their fore and middle finger back and forth 10 times ( this last event was supposed to be a fireman’s pass where you have a bucket of water and then cups with holes in them and you try and pass the water to another empty bucket, but oh no! we cant waste water so this part of the relay was nixed literally 5 min before the event was about to start, so we had to make something up on the spot, it was the best we could do, give us some credit). SO MANY PEOPLE CHEERING. It was hard to get people out of the area and even with microphones we had difficulty yelling over them. The workout was even more of a mob with people screaming at their teammate to do as many pushups, pull-ups, or sit-ups and then not give up on a wall sit. Let’s just say it wasn’t easy but hey you gotta put on a happy face and make everyone else happy. We had other events such as Dodgeball, pictionary, jeopardy, human knot, pizza making, pie eating, hotdog eating, flip cup, tug-o-war, paper boat float, and synchronize swimming. Now let me tell you about synchronize swimming. Traditionally this event is a MUST for every Olympics. The pool on the ship is like a 12X8 cube and with the rocking it’s a mini tidal pool. When it gets really rocky like today…oh wait they decide to empty the pool. Saweet. So instead of doing their routine in water, the teams had to perform their routine on land and we held it in our lecture room The Union. This should definitely be a new actual Olympic event. It IS HYSTERICAL!!!! I got a bunch of short videos on my camera because the routines could only be 2 mins long.  The teams consisted of 2 guys and 2 girls from each sea. They all acted like they were in the pool with all the swimming moves, diving, lifts, circles, etc. I was crying I was laughing so hard. Best event to end the day. It was a long day indeed. Stuff going on nonstop 9:30 until 4:30. The committee and I was sun burnt and so done. We took a team power cat nap right before the closing ceremonies at 6 pm. Red sea got 1^st for the flag, 2^nd on the chant but we didn’t place in the top three overall. Yellow Sea won the day and they deserved it. I had a great time but I am so glad it is done. First midterm tomorrow…..hmmm should be interesting. So I am off to bed. But good luck to everyone and their own midterms!