June 4, 2011

     Today we were at sea. I have officially decided that I like port days better because they are a lot more interesting. The highlight of today was that it was the talent show at 2100. It went pretty late, but it was really good. We had this competition where whichever sea (hall or floor) had the best chant they get to disembark the ship first when we arrive back in Nassau. Our team won the sea chant competition! This was really exciting. We did a remake of the Party in USA by Miley Cyrus, but we changed it to Party at Semester at Sea! It was a lot of fun to do. We weren’t sure that we were going to win because some of the other sea chants were really good too, but we won so that is all that matters! In a way though I didn’t necessarily want to win because my flight isn’t until 4:30PM on the day I leave, and I wouldn’t have anywhere to go besides the airport with all of my stuff.
        All of the acts were really good at the talent show. One of the professors played the violin and she has been playing for about 50 years or so, one lifelong learner who has been singing her whole life, she was really good but has more of an operatic voice or classical style voice, she did a good job, but not really my type of music, and then a bunch of people just played and sang songs. One girl even did Irish step dancing, and one of the librarians read poetry. It was a well balanced show that was well done.