During each semester the students are divided, according to where on ship they are living, into "seas"- each Sea has a young adult who acts as a "resident adviser"- and, once during the voyage a "sea olympics" is held during an afternoon. The students compete against each other in events such as ping pong, Jeopardy, crab soccer, sustainable art, limbo, ice cube race, etc. And the adults form their own team. For this semester our team was named the "Nomer"Sea:
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While I spent 2+ hours as a ref in the crab soccer event (during which I got slammed with the soccer ball a half dozen times) Sandy was competing in the sustainable art contest and the ice cube event (which they won)-- overall, the Caribbean Sea won the Olympics and the NomerSea came in a respectable 3rd (out of 10 teams). The winning team gets to enjoy a dance in the faculty lounge in a couple of weeks plus they get to be the first group off the ship when we arrive in San Diego at the end of the voyage.
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| Griffin, our mascot |
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| Sandy with "daughter" Amy, who as you may have guessed, was on the Yellow Sea team |
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| Sandy and teammates competing in the art sustainability event |
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